Greg Castillo

Greg Castillo is professor of architecture at the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, and an honorary associate professor of architectural history and theory at the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at University of Sydney.

He has received fellowships from the German-American Fulbright Commission, the Getty Research Institute, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Ford Foundation. His publications include Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design (University of Minnesota, 2010) and numerous essays in journals, anthologies, and museum catalogues. He was the guest curator of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in 2017, and a contributor to the exhibition catalogue. He is co-editor of a collection in progress, Design Radicals: Spaces of Bay Area Counterculture.

Castillo holds a BFA in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master of Architecture and PhD in architectural history from the University of California, Berkeley.

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