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 a Professor of Architecture and History at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and a 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 wrote 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. My most recent book,The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction (Yale University Press), was published in the fall of 2008. I am currently research a book about on the future of historic preservation, supported by a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Howard Foundation Fellowship.

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 was the President of the Massachusetts Society of Professors and am on the executive committee of PHENOM,, the Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts.