Dell Upton

Office: Dodd 200B
Phone: 310-206-8370
dupton@humnet.ucla.edu

Dell Upton studies the history of architecture, cities, and material culture. He is interested in the ways that cultural, social, aesthetic, and cognitive theories can enrich the study of architectural history. Professor Upton teaches courses on American and world architecture and urbanism, art- and architectural-history theories and methods, material culture, theories of everyday life, public space, and issues of cross-cultural spatial formation in the post-colonial world. His books and articles treat subjects ranging from pre-Revolutionary American architecture to critiques of New Urbanism and heritage tourism. They include Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic and Architecture in the United States, a volume in the Oxford History of Art series, as well as Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia (1986); and Madaline: Love and Survival in Antebellum New Orleans (University of Georgia Press, 1996). Upton served as a consultant and chief catalogue essayist for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2000 exhibition Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861. His current projects include a world history of architecture and a study of civil-rights and African-American history monuments and urban politics in the American South.

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