Office: Dodd 200B
Phone: 310-206-8370
dupton@humnet.ucla.edu

Dell Upton's work and his teaching focus on the history of architecture, cities, and material culture. He is interested in the ways that cultural, social, aesthetic, and cognitive theories can enrich the study of architectural history. Upton teaches courses on American and world architecture and urbanism, architectural-history theories and methods, material culture, theories of everyday life, public space, and issues of cross-cultural spatial formation in the post-colonial world. His books and articles range from a study of colonial Virginia churches to critiques of New Urbanism and heritage tourism to Architecture in the United States, a volume in the Oxford History of Art series. He is the author of Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic (Yale University Press, 2008), as well as Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia (1986); and Madaline: Love and Survival in Antebellum New Orleans (University of Georgia Press, 1996), and he served as a consultant and chief catalogue essayist for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2000 exhibition Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861. Upton's current projects include a world history of architecture and a study of civil-rights monuments and urban politics in the American South.