Enrique Ramirez
Visiting Associate Professor
Biography
Enrique Ramirez is an award-winning writer and a historian of art and architecture. With a diverse background that connects scholarly work to larger dialogues about art and architecture in relation to its allied domains of inquiry, he maintains an active and evolving presence in architectural culture in the United States and abroad through his teaching and publishing practices. Enrique is also Editor of the award-winning Manifest: A Journal of the Americas, as well as a Director of the Manifest Institute, an organization that seeks to foster critical and imaginative conversations about art, architecture and urbanism, literary studies, and landscape design in the Americas through innovative research, publications, outreach, and exhibition programs.
Enrique has a distinguished educational record. He received his Bachelor of Arts in History from Northwestern University and his JD in Public and Private International law from the George Washington University Law School. After studying Urban Planning at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), he received a Master of Environmental Design from Yale School of Architecture and a PhD in the History and Theory of Architecture from Princeton University. His work has been recognized and supported by various organizations, including the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Whiting Foundation, the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and most recently, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. He has also been a faculty member at Yale School of Art, where he taught seminars on print history at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Enrique’s presence as an architectural writer began in 2006 with the introduction of this is a456, one of the first blogs dedicated to architectural and urban history. Since then, his work has appeared in Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal, Harvard Design Magazine, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, the Journal of Architecture and Journal of Architectural Education, the Journal of the History of Ideas, AA Files, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Places Journal and other outlets. He has also contributed essays to several exhibition catalogs, including a piece for Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, curated by Jean-Louis Cohen and Barry Bergdoll at the Museum of Modern Art in 2013. He is currently at work on three books. The first, titled Lines of Least Resistance: Architecture, Aeronautics, and Other Airs of Modernity, is under development at the University of Texas Press. The second is a co-edited volume with Chris Grimley, Michael Kubo, and Mimi Zeiger called Late Modernism and Other Latenesses: Architecture, Materials and Media After Time, to be published by Park Books in 2026. The third, Aspect Ratio Matinee Idol, is an experimental biography of Craig Ellwood’s Case Study House 16, also to be published by Park Books in 2026.
Education
PhD Princeton University
MED Yale University
JD The George Washington University
BA Northwestern University
Publications and Projects
Exhibition and Catalogue Essays
”Along the Earth’s Sensorium,” in Stuart Hyatt, Janneane Blevins & Willa Benjamin Blevins, eds., Stations: Listening to the Deep Earth (Amsterdam: Jap Sam Books, 2022): 23-31 (an essay commissioned by Stuart Hyatt as part of the exhibition, Stations, sponsored by the Anchorage Museum and the National Geographic Society.)
“The Furtive Seasons,” e-flux Architecture (9 November 2018), https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/dimensions-of-citizenship/178299/the-furtive-seasons/ (commissioned by the US Pavilion for the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale)
“Introduction,” in Stuart Hyatt, ed., Metaphonics: The Field Works Listening Guide (Amsterdam and Brooklyn: Jap Sam Books and Temporary Residence Records, 2018): 7-10.
“You Are Not Reading A History of the D/G/O (A Configurable Essay Written Under the Sign of MOS Installation No. 13)” (2016) (Essay commissioned by MOS Architects [Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample] for A/D/O Gallery, Brooklyn, New York)
“A Home in the Modern World: Sites and Histories of Columbus, Indiana,” DIDACTIC 03 (Fall 2016) (Commissioned by Exhibit Columbus and PRINTtEXT)
“A Reader’s Guide to a Reader’s Guide” (2015) (Catalog Essay commissioned by Mimi Zeiger and Tim Durfee for Now, There: Scenes from the Post-Geographic City, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California)
“Lionel Budden, Ladislaw Torun, Zbigniew Dmochowski, Oskar Sosnowski, Boseslaw Szmidt and others: The Polish School of Architecture at the Liverpool School of Architecture,” Radical Pedagogies: RECONSTRUCTING ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION (November 2015), http://radical-pedagogies.com/search-cases/p06-polish-school-architecture-liverpool-school-architecture/
“To/From India: In the Sky With Sketchbooks,” in Jean-Louis Cohen, ed. Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes. New York: DAP and Museum of Modern Art, (July 2013): 364-369.
Invited and Peer-Reviewed
“Black Rock, or: Goodbye Twentieth Century,” The New York Review of Architecture 22 (Fall 2021): 12-13
“Casual Sequences,” MCHAP The Americas, Vol. 2
“In A Square Circle: On The Architecture of Robert Indiana’s C,” Commercial Article 10 (Fall 2017): 40-49
“Life Begins at the Apocalypse Monster Club.” Harvard Design Magazine 44: Seventeen (Fall /Winter 2017): 118-119
“Die Noctuque.” Harvard Design Magazine 42: Run For Cover! (Spring/Summer 2016): 72-73
“Triangular Blocks and Wind Tunnels: Augustin Rey’s Logic of Air Resistance.” The Journal of Architecture 19, no. 2 (2014): 272-291.
Chris Grimley, Michael Kubo, Enrique Ramirez, and Mimi Zeiger. “Florilegium.” Harvard Design Magazine 38: Do You Read Me? (Spring/Summer 2014): 156-157.
“Thomas Pynchon’s 115th Dream.” Manifest: A Journal of American Architecture and Urbanism (October 2013): 200-208.
“The Air-Powered Alembic.” AA Files (November 2012): 87-93.
“An Aerial Pax Americana.” Perspecta 45: Agency (2012): 99-108.
“Erich Mendelsohn at War.” Perspecta 41: Grand Tour (2008): 83-91.
“Fata Morgana.” Thresholds 33: Form(alisms) (July 2008): 54-60.