Keynote Speaker

Dennis Doordan

Professor and Chair, Department of Art, Art History and Design
Professor, School of Architecture
University of Notre Dame

5:30 pm
Harry Ransom Center, Charles Nelson Prothro Theater

Dennis Doordan is an architectural & design historian, museum consultant and co-editor of Design Issues, a journal devoted to the history, theory, and criticism of design and recognized as one of the leading academic journals devoted to design studies. He has a PhD from Columbia University and a BA from Stanford University. He holds a joint appointment in the School of Architecture and the Department of Art, Art History and Design at the University of Notre Dame. In 1999 and again in 2006, Doordan received the John A. Kaneb Award for Undergraduate Teaching at the University of Notre Dame.

Dennis Doordan has published books and articles on a wide variety of topics dealing with twentieth century architecture and design including political themes in architecture, the impact of new materials, and the evolution of exhibition design techniques. He is the author of Twentieth Century Architecture, a new survey of this subject, published in the UK by Laurence King Publishing and in North America by Harry N. Abrams. He has served as an exhibition consultant and contributed catalog essays for architecture and design exhibitions organized by The Art Institute of Chicago, The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Toledo Art Museum, and the Wolfsonian Foundation in Miami Beach, Florida. He has spoken about design education and interdisciplinary research at international conferences in Melbourne, Australia (2004) London, England (2002), Perth, Australia (2000), Helsinki, Finland (1999), and Columbus, Ohio (1999).