LECTURES

LECTURES SINCE c. 2000

‘Origins of an Essay on Kirchner’s 1915 Self-Portrait as a Soldier’ (1980)
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, 12 February 2020

‘Classic Mondrian in Neo-Calvinist View: The Watson Gordon Lecture’
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2018

Ad Reinhardt as Thomas Merton’s College Friend
St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge University, May 2011

‘Loos and Minimalism’
Edinburgh College of Art, April 2009
Also: University of Cambridge Martin Centre for Architectural Research

SERIES AT EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART IN MARCH 2007:
‘The Ornamental in Loosian Theory and Practice’
‘Formalism, Functionalism, and the Wittgenstein House in the History of Art’
First in Montréal, October 2005 (see conference papers); afterward at
University of Cambridge Department of History of Art
‘Loos, Architecturelessness, and the Sustainability of the Art,’
Also: University of Cambridge Martin Centre for Architectural Research

‘(Adolf) Loos and the Loo’
Future Academy Studiolab Open Hustings, Saint Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh,
10 March 2007

‘The Picturesque Slum: A Problem in Social Aesthetics’
University of Cambridge Martin Centre for Architectural Research, April 2005
Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, March 2005
Prize lecture at Hofstra University (above), February 2004
Pratt Institute Department of Art History, Brooklyn, New York, May 2002
University of Edinburgh Department of Fine Art, February 1999 [Brief initial discussion of the problem]

‘Malevich—A Spiritual Revolutionary Art?’
The Catholic Worker, New York, October 2003

‘Loos and Fine Art: Scandalous Beauty from the Anti-Artist of Architecture’
Program in Comparative Literature and Theory
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, January 2002

‘Bishop Berkeley’s American House in Modern View’
Samuel Dorsky Symposium on Public Monuments: XI Annual Tribute to
Rudolf Wittkower, New York, March 2001
University of Maryland, February 2001
Glasgow School of Art, February 1999
Edinburgh College of Art, February 1999

‘Iffy Abstract Art: Jonathan Lasker and the Limits of Skepticism’
University of Edinburgh Department of Fine Art, February 1999
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., September 1993
Yale University School of Art, New Haven, February 1993
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, March 1992