Greg Cartelli

Gregory Cartelli is a researcher, writer, and PhD Candidate in the History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University. He holds a Certificate in the History of Science from Princeton University, a Masters of Environmental Design from Yale School of Architecture, a BA in Photography from Bard College, and is based in New York City.

His dissertation project–”Disarticulations: Architecture, Technique, and the Ethnography of Habitation in France, 1941-1955″–exposes how exchanges between architectural representation and ethnographic method in France worked together to formulate a novel form of humanism. Beginning with a case study of a state sponsored survey of rural architecture, “Disarticulations” traces the interactions of modernizing ethnographers, Annalés historiographers, philosophers of technique, journal editors, and, ultimately, environmental artists that resulted from the unprecedented primacy of architecture as a subject of interdisciplinary attention. Throughout, as architecture becomes broken down through collaborative methods of ethnographic research and architectural representation, it also becomes recomposited, in experimental reconstruction projects, human scientific taxa, editorial thematics, and finally displaced across the hills of Biot in the 1954 exhibition Architecture, Formes, Couleur.

His other research has looked at the role of the hand in post-war modernism, Gordon Pask’s cybernetic experiments in mail art, perceptual psychology and the evolution of military training facilities for urban warfare, and architecture’s relationship to post-war abstraction.