K. Michael Hays is Eliot Noyes

Eliot Noyes

Eliot Fette Noyes was a Harvard-trained American architect and industrial designer, who worked on projects for IBM, most famously the IBM Selectric typewriter and the IBM Aerospace Research Center in Los Angeles, California...

 Professor of Architectural Theory at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, in Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD) and Co-Director of Doctoral Programs (PhD & DDes).

Education

Hays received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology

The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...

 in 1976. From MIT he received the Master of Science in Architectural Studies (SMArchS) in 1979, and the Doctor of Philosophy in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art in 1990.

Career

Hays has played a central role in the development of architectural theory in North America and his work is internationally known. His research and scholarship have to date focused on the areas of European modernism and critical theory as well as on theoretical issues in contemporary architectural practice. He has published on the work of modern architects such as Hannes Meyer

Hannes Meyer

Hans Emil "Hannes" Meyer was a Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1928 to 1930.-Early work:...

, Ludwig Hilberseimer

Ludwig Hilberseimer

Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer was a German architect and urban planner best known for his ties to the Bauhaus and to Mies van der Rohe, as well as for his work in urban planning at Armour Institute of Technology , in Chicago, Illinois.-Life:Hilberseimer studied architecture at the Karlsruhe Technical...

, and Mies van der Rohe, as well as on contemporary figures such as Peter Eisenman

Peter Eisenman

Peter Eisenman is an American architect. Eisenman's professional work is often referred to as formalist, deconstructive, late avant-garde, late or high modernist, etc...

, Bernard Tschumi

Bernard Tschumi

Bernard Tschumi is an architect, writer, and educator, commonly associated with deconstructivism. Born of French and Swiss parentage, he works and lives in New York and Paris. He studied in Paris and at ETH in Zurich, where he received his degree in architecture in 1969...

, and the late John Hejduk

John Hejduk

John Quentin Hejduk , was an American architect, artist and educator who spent much of his life in New York City, USA...

. Hays was the founder of the scholarly journal Assemblage, which was a leading forum of discussion of architectural theory in North America and Europe. From 1995-2005 he was Chair of the PhD Committee and Director of the GSD’s Advanced Independent Study Programs. In 2000 he was appointed the first Adjunct Curator of Architecture at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...

, a position he held until 2009.

Selected publications

• Architecture's Desire: Reading the Late Avant-Garde (MIT Press, 2009)
• Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, with Dana Miller (Yale University Press, 2008)
• Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio, ed. K. Michael Hays, Aaron Betsky, and Laurie Anderson (The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2003)
• Sanctuaries: The Last Works of John Hejduk, with Maxwell L. Anderson, John Hejduk, Toshiko Mori (Preface) (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2003)
• Architecture Theory 1968, ed. K. Michael Hays (MIT Press, 1998)
• Oppositions Reader: Selected Essays 1973-1984, ed. K. Michael Hays (Princeton Architectural Press, 1998)
• Hejduks Chronotope, ed. K. Michael Hays (Princeton Architectural Press, 1996)
• Unprecedented Realism: The Architecture of Machado and Silvetti (Princeton Architectural Press, 1995)
• Modernism and the Posthumanist Subject: The Architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer (MIT Press, 1992)
• Thinking The Present: Recent American Architecture, ed. with Carol Burns (Princeton Architectural Press, 1990)

External links

• Hays's web site at Harvard