SOPHIE HOCHHÄUSL, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, History of Twentieth Century Architecture and Urbanism Boston University, Department of History of Art and Architecture e-mail: seh1@bu.edu • address: 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Rm 215D EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy, History of Architecture and Urbanism, Cornell University, 2015

Dissertation: “Modern by Nature: Architecture, Technology, and the Environment in Austrian Settlements and Allotment Gardens, 1904-1954.” Fields: History of Architecture and Urbanism, History of Technology and Environmental History, Urban Planning. Dissertation Committee: Co-Chairs, Felicity Scott (Columbia University) and Sara Pritchard (Cornell University); Esra Akcan (Cornell University), Alys George (New York University), William Goldsmith (Cornell University), Mark Morris (Cornell University).

Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, Columbia University, 2012-2015 Master of Arts, History of Architecture and Urban Development, Cornell University, 2010

Master of Architecture, Institute for Art and Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 2008 RESEARCH INTERESTS • modern history of architecture and urbanism in Austria, Germany and the United States • landscape history, garden studies, history of environmental thought, industrial landscapes • architectural media, popular culture, and the archive • design and ideology, nationalism, war-time planning • housing history, grass-roots and cooperative movements, history of participatory processes in city planning AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS AND GRANTS

• Honors (National) Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Freie Universität,

Berlin, 2015 (offered 2015-2016). Finalist, Columbia Society of Fellows, Columbia University, New York, 2015. • Dissertation Awards & Fellowships (National) Carter Manny Research Award (15,000 USD), Graham Foundation, 2013-14. Clarence Stein Fellowship (16,000 USD), Clarence S. Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies, 2012-13. Botstiber Fellowship for Austrian-American Studies (15,680 USD), Dietrich W. Botstiber Foundation for

Austrian-American Studies, 2012-13. Project Fellowship (3,000 USD), Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts, and Culture, 2012.

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• Dissertation & Research Grants (Internal) Cornell Summer Dissertation Completion Fellowship (1,200 USD), Department of Architecture, Cornell

University. Society for the Humanities Sustainability Grant (1,000 USD), Cornell Society for the Humanities and the

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Cornell University, 2013. Cornell Summer Fellowship (4,600 USD), Department of Architecture, Cornell University, 2011; 2010; 2013. Cornell Summer Research Grant (1,900 USD), Cornell Graduate School, Cornell University, 2012. Sage Graduate Fellowship (21,400 USD), Department of Architecture, Cornell University, 2009; 2010; 2014. • Research Awards Science Appraisal Prize for Social Justice in Austria, Austrian Workers Union, 2009. ‘Pfann-Ohmann-Preis’ (4,000 USD), Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 2008. ‘Carl-Appel-Preis’ (4,000 USD), Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 2007. • Selected Travel Grants & Fellowships Cornell Summer Research Fellowship (4,700 USD), Cornell Graduate School, Cornell University, 2014. Conference Travel, Cornell Graduate School, Cornell University, 2009; 2010; 2011; 2012 [non-competitive]. MacDougall Award (1,060 USD; 1,230 USD), History of Architecture and Urban Development Program,

Cornell University, 2011; 2012. The Helen O. and Stephen Jacobs Fund (1,550 USD), History of Architecture and Urban Development Program,

Cornell University, 2010. Henry A. Detweiler Fund (880 USD), History of Architecture and Urban Development Program, Cornell

University, 2009. PUBLICATIONS • Refereed Books Working Title: Modern by Nature: Labor, Food, and Leisure in Austrian Settlements and Allotment Gardens, 1904-1954,

(writing in-process) Otto Neurath – City Planning; Proposing a Socio-Political Map for Modern Urbanism, with a preface by Bart Lootsma,

(Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, 2011). • Refereed Articles “From Vienna to Frankfurt Inside Core House Type 7: A History of Scarcity through the Modern Kitchen,”

Architectural Histories: Journal of the European Architectural History Network, No. 1. (Nov. 2013): 1-19. “Otto Neurath – Mapping the City as Social Fact,” Image and Imaging in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts: Papers of the

33rd International Wittgenstein Symposium, Elisabeth Nemeth, Richard Heinrich, and Wolfram Pichler, eds. (Kirchberg am Wechsel: Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 2010): 99-136.

• Refereed Book Chapters “Adolf Loos and the Living Building: Architecture and Organization in Austrian Settlements and Allotment Gardens,

1918-1925,” Reading the Architecture of the Underprivileged Classes, Nnamdi Elleh, ed. (forthcoming 2015). • Translated Articles “Pluralismen: Isotype und die Kartographie,”Otto Neurath: Sachbild und Gesellschaftskritik, Frank Hartmann, ed.

Invited reprint and translation of “Otto Neurath – Mapping the City as Social Fact.”

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“Otto Neurath et L’Orchestration de la Politique Urbaine,” Philippe Rekacewicz, trans., cartographic blog of Le Monde Diplomatique, viscarto.net. 2013. http://visionscarto.net/otto-neurath-orchestration-urbaine.

• Books and Edited Volumes (architecture and design research) CC: A Publication of the Graduate Students of Architecture, Sophie Hochhäusl and Melissa Constantine, eds. (Ithaca:

Cornell AAP Publications, 2014). Productive Limits: Architects Gone Exploratory, Sophie Hochhäusl and Manuel Singer eds. (Vienna: Sonderzahl, 2012). Wohnmodelle im Roten Wien, with a preface by Viennese mayor Michael Häupl, (Vienna: Self-Published, 2008).

Teaching materials for high schools on 1920s Viennese architecture. Pinsel, Paula und die Plaudernden Häuser: Architektur für Kleine und Größere Menschen (Vienna: öbv&hpt, 2006). Fictional children’s book on Viennese architecture. • Essays for the Popular Press “Otto Neurath and the Politics of Orchestration,” cartographic blog of Le Monde Diplomatique, viscarto.net. 2013.

http://visionscarto.net/neurath-politics-of-orchestration. “Master Planning Paradise, 110 Years of Housing Subsidy in Vienna – Where do we stand?,” Malmoe 3 (2008): 12-13. “Von Emil und Architektur,“ Camenzind 12 (2005): 4-5. CONFERENCES, LECTURES AND PANELS • Conference Papers “Home Front Functionalism: Cookbooks, War Produce Gardens & the Modern House, 1914-1919,” Society of

Architectural Historians, Los Angeles, April 2016 (paper accepted). “From Siedlung to Suburb: Exhibiting the Austrian Prefabricated Home — Technological Transfer,

Americanization, and the U.S. Economic Mission in Vienna, 1952–1955,” European Architectural History Network, Belgrade, October 2015 (paper accepted).

“From Siedlung to Suburb: Exhibiting the Austrian Prefabricated Home — Technological Transfer, Americanization, and the U.S. Economic Mission in Vienna, 1952–1955,” Columbia University, Buell Dissertation Colloquium, New York, May 2015.

“Holism in the Allotment Garden: AÖN and the Built Counter-Discourse of Scientific Medicine,” Society of Architectural Historians, Austin, April 2014.

“Gardens, Produce and the War: Mobilizing the Austrian Settlement and Allotment Garden Association,” 8th Savannah Symposium: Modernities Across Time and Space, SCAD, Savanna, February 2013.

“Grain Elevators, Factories, Mass Production: Architectural Techno-Determinism or Planning the Fordist City,” International Committee for the History of Technology, Barcelona, July 2012.

“From Regionalism to Community: The Architecture of Allotment Gardeners, Settlers, and Cooperatives,” European Architectural History Network, Brussels, May 2012.

“Women at War: Produce, Allotment Gardens, and Settlements,” Society of Architectural Historians, Graduate Students Lighting Rounds, Detroit, April 2014.

“Produce, Labor, and the Nation: Women in the Austrian Settlement and Allotment Garden Association,” Peripheral Modernisms Conference, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, March 2012. “Assisted Autonomy: Emergence and Active Development of Viennese Garden and Building Cooperatives,”

Association of American Geographers, New York City, February 2012. “Grass-Roots Modernism – The Austrian Settlement and Allotment Garden Association,” Society of

Architectural Historians, New Orleans, April 2011. “Otto Neurath – Mapping the City as Social Fact,”33rd Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, August 2010. “From Number Charts to Picture Statistics,” Transcending Boundaries in Belle Époque Conference, Mundaneum, Mons, Belgium, June 2010.

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• Invited Lectures “Exhibiting the Austrian Prefabricated Home,” Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Guest Scholar Lecture

Series, Boston University, September 2015. “On Media and Methodology: Reconstructing Everyday Architecture and Landscape in the Modern Siedlung,”

Cornell Society for the Humanities, Sustaining the Humanities: Epistemology, Methodology, Infrastructure, Cornell University, Ithaca, May 2015.

“At the Grassroots: Urban Gardening as Politics,” Urban Democracy Lab, Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University, and German House NYU, New York, May 2015.

“Gardens, Produce and the War: Mobilizing the Austrian Settlement and Allotment Garden Association,” Urbanism and Utopia Seminar, Columbia University, GSAPP, New York City, March 2013.

“Charting Social Life: Modernism in Austrian Settlements and Allotment Gardens,” Symposium Zeit(lose) Zeichen – Time(less) Signs, A Tribute to Otto Neurath, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria, January 2013.

“Otto Neurath – Mapping the City as Social Fact,” Department of Architecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, April 2011. “Housing Models in Vienna: 110 Years of Housing Subsidy – Where do we Stand?” AzW, Centre for

Architecture, Vienna, Austria, February 2009. • Invited Roundtable Commentary and Presentations “Disruptions – Designs,” Session Commentator, Society for the History of Technology, Albuquerque, October

2015. “Ernst May in the Soviet Union: On Thomas Flierl’s Standardstädte,” Book Salon: All about the Book, Azw, Centre

for Architecture, Vienna, Austria, December 2012. “Socio-Political Maps: A Participatory Public Discourse on the City,” Austrian Cultural Forum, New York City,

February 2012. “Pinsel, Paula und die Plaudernden Häuser,” AzW, Centre for Architecture, Vienna, Austria, April 2006. CONFERENCES AND EXHIBITIONS ORGANIZED

• Conferences, Colloquia and Panels Organized

“Architecture and the Environment: Methods and Tools Workshop,” Interest Group Roundtable, European Architectural History Network, Dublin 2016.

“Writing Architectural Histories: Vernacular and Avant-Garde,” Graduate Student Round Table, Society of Architectural Historians, Buffalo, 2013.

“Notes from the Archive,” Digital Colloquium, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL & Cornell University, History of Architecture and Urbanism Program, with Medina Lasanksy, Christian Otto, Mary Woods, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell, Adrain Forthy and others, London and Ithaca, 2013.

“Producing Publics: Architecture, Agency and Social Space,” Graduate Student Symposium, Cornell University, History of Architecture and Urbanism Program, Ithaca, 2012 [co-organizer].

“Productive Limits: Architectural Scholarship, Research, and Writing,” Graduate Student Conference, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Institute for Art and Architecture, Vienna, 2012.

“Cornell Convivium: Lecture Series of the Graduate Students of Architecture,” Eight Part Colloquium, Cornell University, Department of Architecture, with featured guests: Mario Carpo, Peter Eisenman, Donald Greenberg, Barbara Penner and others, Ithaca, 2010-2011.

“Architecture and Education: A Conversation,” Panel Discussion, Albertina Passage, Vienna, 2008 [co-organizer]. “Pinsel, Paula und die Plaudernden Häuser,” A Children’s Play on the History of Viennese Architecture, Dschungel

Wien (children’s theatre), screenplay: Lena Wiesbauer; Kostas Papageorgiou,Vienna, 2006 [author].

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• Exhibitions Organized “A House in the Garden: Exercise, Food, and Labor in the Siedlung, 1903-1933,” German House, NYU, 2015. “Rowe x Ungers: Untold Collaborations on the City during the 1960-70s at Cornell,” Cornell University,

Department of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Ithaca, 2010 [co-organizer]. “Wohnmodelle im Roten Wien,” AzW, Centre for Architecture, Vienna, Austria, February 2009.

FUNDS RAISED FOR EXHIBITIONS, WORKSHOPS, AND PUBLICATIONS • Funds Raised for Conferences, Exhibitions and Workshops “Critical Copying – Studio X, Beijing” (7,500 USD), Dean’s Fund, GSAPP, Columbia University, 2013. “Productive Limits: A Colloquium on Architectural Scholarship, Research, and Writing” (1,400 USD), Austrian

Municipal Council 7, Arts and Culture, Vienna, 2011. “Producing Publics: Architecture, Agency and Social Space” (1000 USD), Department for Art History, Cornell

University, 2011. “Cornell Convivium, Lecture Series of the Graduate Students of Architecture” (5,200 USD), Department of

Architecture, Cornell University, 2010. “Master Planning Paradise – 110 Years of Housing Subsidy in Vienna, Where do we stand?” (4,000 USD),

Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture, Vienna, 2009. “Architecture and Education” (5,000 USD), Viennese Municipal Department, Architecture and Urban Design,

Vienna, 2009. • Publication Grants CC: A Publication of the Graduate Students of Architecture (2,000 USD), Dean’s Funds, College of Architecture, Art,

and Planning, Cornell University, 2014. CC: A Publication of the Graduate Students of Architecture (2,300 USD), Chair’s Funds, Department of Architecture,

Cornell University, 2014. Otto Neurath – Proposing a Socio-Political Map for Modern Urbanism (4,000 USD), Austrian Federal Ministry for

Education, Arts and Culture, Vienna, 2010. Wohnmodelle im Roten Wien (7,500 USD), Council for Housing and City Development, Vienna, 2009. Pinsel, Paula und die Plaudernden Häuser, Architektur für Kleinere und Größere Menschen (1,000 USD), Austrian Students

Union, 2005. CITATION OF RESEARCH AND WORK • Citations in the Popular Press

Cited in Sara Oran, “Socio-Political Maps: A Participatory Public Discourse on the City,“ Transforum, No. 14

(2012), online magazine. Cited in Aaron Goldweber, “Otto Neurath- City Planning, Proposing a Socio-Political Map for Modern

Urbanism,” in AAP Cornell Architecture Art and Planning News, News 10 (2011), p. 13. Cited in Franziska Leeb, “Und woraus sind die Ziegel?” Die Presse, Spectrum, 16 July (2006), p.22 Cited in Elke Krasny, “Pinsel, Paula und die Plaudernden Häuser, Architektur für Kleine und Größere

Menschen,” Architektur Aktuell, June/July (2006), p. 56

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• Interviews in Media Quoted in Sybille Fritsch, “Paläste des Proletariats,” Arbeit und Wirtschaft, September (2009), 46. Quoted in Ö1, Austrian National Radio, “Pinsel, Paula und die Plaudernden Häuser,” March 2006. TEACHING • Boston University, Lecture Courses and Seminars “Twentieth Century Architecture,” Lecture Course, Department of Art and Architectural History, Boston

University, Fall 2015. “State of the Discipline: Historiography of Modern Architecture and Urbanism,” Ph.D. Seminar, Department of

Art and Architectural History, Boston University, Fall 2015. • Leopold Franzens University, Seminars “Industrial Landscapes: From the Kitchen to the Atomic Power Plant,” Architectural History; Landscape Theory,

Seminar, Department of Architectural Theory, Leopold Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria, Fall 2013. “Utopia and Reform: 19th and 20th Century Urbanism, 1848-2008,” Architectural Theory and Discourse, Seminar,

Department of Architectural Theory, Leopold Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria, Fall 2013. • Cornell University, Lecture Courses (as teaching fellow) “Architecture as a Cultural System,” with Prof. Bonnie McDougall, Department of Architecture, Cornell

University, Fall 2011. “History of Architecture and Urbanism Survey II,” with Prof. Mary Woods, Department of Architecture, Cornell

University, Spring 2011; 2012. “History of Architecture Survey I,” with Prof. Mary Woods, Department of Architecture, Cornell University,

Fall 2010. • Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Seminars (as teaching assistant) “Art Theory and Cultural Studies,” with Prof. Diedrich Diederichsen and Prof. Tom Holert, Institute for Art

Theory and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 2006-2008. SERVICE • University Service Dean’s Council, member, Cornell University, 2010-2011 Library Task Force Committee, member, Cornell University, 2009-2010 Cornell Graduate School, field representative, Cornell University, 2009-2010 • Department Service M.A./Ph.D. Program, student representative, Cornell University, 2009-2010 M.A./Ph.D. Architecture Graduate Student Group, president, Cornell University, 2009-2010 Institute for Art and Architecture, student representative, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2006-2007

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• Independent Research and Study Groups, Service and Membership European Architectural History Network, Architecture & Environment [interest group leader], 2014-present Interdisciplinary Cornell Dissertation Writing Group [member], 2013-present Cornell Convivium, Architecture Graduate Student Group [president], 2010-2011 MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS Society of Architectural Historians EAHN – European Architectural History Network Docomomo, US, New York, Tri-State Chapter; Docomomo Austria LANGUAGES German native language English native-level proficiency Italian advanced proficiency Latin advanced reading proficiency Spanish; French intermediate reading proficiency