Despina Stratigakos Explained

Despina Stratigakos (born 1963) is a Canadian-born architectural historian, writer, former vice provost, and professor of architecture at the University at Buffalo.[1]

Education

Stratigakos was born in Montreal, Quebec, and received her undergraduate education from the University of Toronto and her Master of Arts from the University of California Berkeley. She earned her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. She taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan before joining the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo.

Academic career

From 2018-22, Stratigakos served as the University at Buffalo's Vice Provost of Inclusive Excellence.[2] Stratigakos previously served as a Director of the Society of Architectural Historians, an Advisor of the International Archive of Women in Architecture at Virginia Tech, a Trustee of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, and Deputy Director of the Gender Institute at the University at Buffalo.[3] [4] [5]

She also participated on Buffalo's municipal Diversity in Architecture task force and was a founding member of the Architecture and Design Academy, an initiative of the Buffalo Public Schools to encourage design literacy and academic excellence. In 2016–17, Stratigakos was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.[6]

Publications

Stratigakos' books explore the intersections of power and architecture. Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway (2020) recounts how architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model “Aryan” society in Norway during World War II,[7] winner of the Society of Architectural Historians 2022 Spiro Kostof Book Prize.[8] Where Are the Women Architects? (2016)[9] [10] [11] confronts the challenges women face in the architectural profession. Hitler at Home (2015) [12] [13] [14] [15] investigates the architectural and ideological construction of the Führer's domesticity. A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City (2008) traces the history of a forgotten female metropolis.[16] [17] This book won the German Studies Association DAAD Book Prize[18] and the Milka Bliznakov Research Prize.[19]

Stratigakos's publications on the Third Reich have brought previously unknown histories to light, including the influential role of Gerdy Troost, Hitler's interior decorator.[20] Stratigakos has published on the dangers of erasure of memory and normalization in writing about the Nazis.[21] [22] [23]

Stratigakos is an internationally recognized scholar of diversity and equity in architecture.[24] She has published widely on issues of diversity in architecture.[25] [26] [27] Her 2013 Places Journal article, "Unforgetting Women Architects," on the neglect of women architects in history books and the need to include them in Wikipedia inspired the emergence of Wikipedia edit-a-thons focused on women in design.[28]

Stratigakos has also written about the lack of diversity in representations of architects in Hollywood films as well as among architecture's elite prize winners.[29] [30] In 2007 she curated an exhibition on Architect Barbie at the University of Michigan to focus attention on gendered stereotypes within the architectural profession.[31] In 2011, she collaborated with Mattel on the development and launch of Architect Barbie in the Barbie I Can Be series.[32]

Honors and awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Despina Stratigakos - UB - University at Buffalo. ap.buffalo.edu. 2017-03-30.
  2. Web site: Stratigakos to lead Inclusive Excellence. 2020-08-24. buffalo.edu. en.
  3. News: Despina Stratigakos on Women in Architecture Abitare. 2013-06-03. Abitare. 2017-03-30. en-US.
  4. Web site: Despina Stratigakos is New Deputy Director of the UB Gender Institute - University at Buffalo. buffalo.edu. 2017-03-30.
  5. News: About BWAF - Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. 2017-03-30. en-US. 2017-03-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20170331062251/http://www.bwaf.org/about/. dead.
  6. Web site: Current Members and Visitors School of Historical Studies. hs.ias.edu. en. 2017-03-30.
  7. Book: Hitler's Northern Utopia. 2020-08-18. 978-0-691-19821-7. en. Stratigakos. Despina.
  8. Web site: SAH Newsletter . 2023-02-25 . Default.
  9. Book: Stratigakos, D.: Where Are the Women Architects? (eBook and Paperback).. press.princeton.edu. 2017-03-30. 9780691170138. Stratigakos. Despina. 12 April 2016.
  10. News: Breaking Out of the Box. Tavris. Carol. 2016-04-29. Wall Street Journal. 2017-03-30. 0099-9660. Carol Tavris.
  11. News: Book Review: Where Are the Women Architects? - Spacing National. 2017-01-24. Spacing National. 2017-03-30. en-US.
  12. Book: Hitler at Home Yale University Press. yalebooks.com. 2017-03-30. 9780300183818. Stratigakos. Despina. 2015.
  13. News: The Role of Décor in Hitler's Life. 2015-08-27. The New York Times. 2017-03-30. 0362-4331.
  14. News: Hitler at Home by Despina Stratigakos. 2017-03-30. en.
  15. Web site: Hanging Out with Hitler. Filler. Martin. The New York Review of Books. 2017-03-30.
  16. Book: A Women's Berlin. University of Minnesota Press. en. 2017-03-30. 978-0-8166-5323-2. Stratigakos. Despina. 2008.
  17. News: A Women's Berlin: Building the Modern City. 2009-07-02. Times Higher Education (THE). 2017-03-30. en.
  18. Web site: Despina Stratigakos' "A Woman's Berlin" Wins 2009 German Academic Book Award. ap.buffalo.edu. en. 2017-03-30.
  19. Web site: A Guide to the Milka Bliznakov Prize Records, 1999-2012Milka Bliznakov Prize Records, Ms2001-045. ead.lib.virginia.edu. en. 2017-03-30.
  20. Web site: Sites Unseen. 2020-08-24. THE SITE MAGAZINE. en-US.
  21. Web site: Stratigakos. Despina. Could razing Hitler's first home backfire?. 2020-08-24. The Conversation. en.
  22. Web site: The Invasion of Memory: Hitler's Attempt to Rewrite the History of World War I . 2020-08-24. architectmagazine.com.
  23. Web site: Stratigakos. Despina. 2017-12-12. It's Not That Hard To Avoid Normalizing Nazis. 2020-08-24. The Atlantic. en-US.
  24. Web site: Breaking the Cycle: Despina Stratigakos on Historical Amnesia, the Magic of Architecture, and Creating Conditions for Change. 2020-08-24. Madame Architect. en-US.
  25. News: Architecture's New Feminist Activism Tackles the Profession's Gender-Bias. 2016-03-15. Metropolis. 2017-03-30. en-US.
  26. Web site: Women architects: Building change. aljazeera.com. 2017-03-30.
  27. News: Why is the world of architecture so male-dominated?. 2016-04-21. Los Angeles Times. 2017-03-30. en-US. 0458-3035.
  28. Stratigakos. Despina. 2016-04-12. Unforgetting Women Architects: From the Pritzker to Wikipedia. Places Journal. en-US. 2013. 10.22269/130603. free.
  29. Stratigakos. Despina. 2016-09-06. Hollywood Architects. Places Journal. en-US. 2016. 10.22269/160906. free.
  30. News: Architecture Has a Woman Problem. Zaha Hadid Knew It Well.. 2016-04-11. Slate. 2017-03-30. en-US. 1091-2339.
  31. News: Architect Barbie's Political Underpinnings. 2011-10-09. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2017-03-30.
  32. Stratigakos. Despina. 2011-06-13. What I Learned from Architect Barbie. Places Journal. en-US. 2011. 10.22269/110613. free.
  33. Web site: Current Members and Visitors School of Historical Studies. hs.ias.edu. en. 2017-03-30.
  34. Web site: 'Hitler at Home' -- A Study in the Politics of Domestic Aesthetics - University at Buffalo. buffalo.edu. 2017-03-30.
  35. Web site: Visiting Faculty Humanities Research Center. hrc.rice.edu. en. 2017-03-30. 2017-03-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20170331115424/http://hrc.rice.edu/visitingfaculty. dead.
  36. Web site: Former Fellows Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning. taubmancollege.umich.edu. en. 2017-03-30.

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