Rural Utopia
Morphology of Franco’s new towns
PROF. JEAN-FRANÇOIS LEJEUNE, PHD
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
MONDAY MAY 11TH 2020
15:30 (GMT+3:00 ISTANBUL) 8:30 (GMT -5.00 MIAMI)
WRITING URBAN FORM (WUF) INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
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Jean-François Lejeune, Ph.D., is Professor of architecture, urban design, and history at University
of Miami, School of Architecture. His books include: The Making of Miami Beach 1933-1942: The
Architecture of Lawrence Murray Dixon (with Allan Shulman, 2001), Cruelty and Utopia: Cities
and Landscapes of Latin America (Princeton Architectural Press, 2005, CICA Award for Best
Architecture Catalogue in 2005), Sitte, Hegemann, and the Metropolis (with Chuck Bohl, 2009),
Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities
(with Michelangelo Sabatino, 2010). He has published essays in Rassegna, The Journal of
Decorative and Propaganda Arts, JAE, and in various exhibition catalogues and books.
Secretary of DoCOMOMO-US/Florida, was an Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in
Rome in 2007, and a Visiting Professor at the Doctorate Program in Architecture and
Construction, Space and Society at “Sapienza”. Lejeune is currently at work on 3 monographs:
Loos and Schinkel: The Metropolis between the Individual and the Collective (Routledge, 2021),
The Modern Village: Rural Utopia and Modernity in Franco’s Spain (DOM, Berlin, 2021), and
Cuban Modernism 1940-70: Avant-garde and Tradition (Birkhäuser, 2020, with Victor Deupi).