Spyros Papapetros

Princeton University

September–December 2015

Spyros Papapetros is Associate Professor of theory and historiography at the School of Architecture, acting Co-director of the Program in Media and Modernity, and member of the Executive Committee of the Program in European Cultural Studies at Princeton University. He studies the intersections between art, architecture, historiography, psychoanalysis, and the history of psychological aesthetics. He is the author of On the Animation of the Inorganic: Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life (University of Chicago Press, 2012) and the co-editor of Retracing the Expanded Field: Encounters between Art and Architecture (MIT Press, 2014). He is currently completing a second book project titled World Ornament: Adornment on a Global Scale and working on the first published edition of Frederick Kiesler’s book manuscript Magic Architecture. At the Clark, he will work on a new book project titled The Prearchitectonic Condition examining the legacy of prehistory in architectural culture from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.