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Jonathan Massey named dean of University of Michigan Architecture and Urban Planning

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Jonathan Massey named dean of University of Michigan Architecture and Urban Planning

Jonathan Massey, dean of architecture and professor at California College of the Arts, has been named the next dean of the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He will follow Dean Monica Ponce de Leon, who is now the architecture dean at Princeton, and Robert Fishman, professor of architecture and urban planning, who has been serving as interim dean.

“Taubman College has excelled by taking Detroit, the Great Lakes region and other sites around the globe as frameworks for research on the challenges and opportunities posed by processes of modernization,” Massey said. “I am excited to work with U-M students, faculty and staff to generate architecture and planning strategies that expand economic opportunity, increase equitable access to resources, design better health and create the operating system for smart cities.”

Massey earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, from Princeton University. He earned a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a doctoral degree in history and theory of architecture from Princeton.

Massey has worked for architecture firms including Frank O. Gehry and Associates and has taught at Barnard College, Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute, and Syracuse University, where he served as chair of the Bachelor of Architecture program from 2011-2014. He is the author of the book, “Crystal and Arabesque: Claude Bragdon, Ornament, and Modern Architecture,” and in 2006, Massey co-founded the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, “a team of scholars focused on how buildings shape processes of political, economic and social transformation.” He also edits The Aggregate Website.


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