Max Page

Architecture + Design Program
University of Massachusetts, 151 Presidents Dr., Office 1, Amherst, MA 01003-9330; 413-545-6940
mpage@art.umass.edu

I am an Associate Professor of Architecture and History at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and 2003 Guggenheim Fellow. I teach and write about the design, development and politics of cities and architecture. I am the author of The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 (University of Chicago Press, 1999), which won the Spiro Kostof Award of the Society of Architectural Historians, for the best book on architecture and urbanism. I also co-edited (with Steven Conn) Building the Nation: Americans Write Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Environment (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), and (with Randall Mason) Giving Preserving a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States (Routledge, 2003). For the hundredth anniversary of Times Square in 2004, I curated the centennial exhibition on the history of the Square at the AXA Gallery in New York. I write a regular column for Architecture magazine, and have written for other popular magazines, including the New York Times, Metropolis, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe. I am currently writing a history of how American culture has imagined New York's destruction, entitled The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction (Yale University Press, Fall 2007).

CV

You can view my CV, in html or as a pdf file.

Writing

Essays on cities, architecture, public history, politics

Books

The City’s End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction (forthcoming from Yale University Press, 2007)
The Creative Destruction of Manhattan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, December 1999). The book appears in the Historical Studies in Urban America series edited by James Grossman and Kathleen Conzen.
Building the Nation: Americans Write about Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape, 1789 to the Present (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), co-edited with Steven Conn. Winng of the Allen B. Noble Book Award of the Pioneer Society of America.
Giving Preservation a History: Essays on the History of Historic Preservation in the United States (New York: Routledge Publishers, 2003), co-edited with Randall Mason.

Courses (syllabi in pdf format)

American Urbanism

Public History

History of New York

History and Theory of Historic Preservation

Other Projects

I have taken and exhibited photographs of historic places for Iguana Photo

I am the President of the Massachusetts Society of Professors.