The Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts of Washington University in St. Louis is Eric Paul Mumford. Additionally, he is a Faculty Scholar at the Institute of Public Health and holds honorary posts in the Departments of Art History and Archaeology and History of Art and Science.
Mumford teaches architectural history and theory and is an authority on the development of modern architecture and urban planning. Designing the Modern City: Urbanism Since 1850, published in 2018, CIAM Discussions on Urbanization, 1928-1960, published in 2000, Modern Architecture in St. Louis: Washington University and Postwar American Architecture, 1948-1973, published in 2004, Josep Llu’s Sert: Urban Planning Architects, published in 2008, Defining Urban Design: CIAM Architects and the Formation of a Discipline, published in 2009, and published in The Writings of Josep Ll (2015). He worked as a Fulbright Urban Planning Specialist at the Pontifical Catholic University of Lima, Peru, in 2013, and the MIT Global Consortium for the Teaching of Architectural History awarded him a collaboration grant in 2014. In the new Tadao Ando-designed gallery in Chicago, Alphawood Exhibitions, he is currently the curator and catalog editor of the Le Corbusier department.
Mumford earned a degree in architecture from Harvard University in 1980, a master’s from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, and a doctorate from Princeton University in 1996. He served as the visiting committee head for the Harvard Graduate School of Design from 2011 to 2014.
