Profile

Scott Colman is an architectural historian, theorist, critic, and designer. He is a graduate of the communication, media, and cultural studies program at the University of Technology, Sydney, and has received degrees in architecture from the Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University, and the University of Sydney, where he was awarded the University Medal and completed his doctoral dissertation on mid-twentieth-century American architecture’s engagement with planning, social science, and philosophy. He has worked for architectural firms and lectured at conferences and symposia on both sides of the Pacific. Colman has been an invited design critic at Ohio State University, the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, Oberlin College, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture. He has traveled extensively in Asia, Europe, and the Americas, and has lived in Sydney, London, Chicago, and Austin. Firmly committed to a conception of history, theory, criticism, and design as implicated pursuits, Colman’s work is concerned with architecture’s ongoing role as a catalyst for collectives – with changing ideas of collectivity, planning, and urbanism and the engagement of architectural practice with the formulation of new, socially progressive possibilities. His published writings have considered the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Glenn Murcutt, Juan-Navarro Baldeweg, Foreign Office Architects, MVRDV, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, and Charles Jencks.