Mitchell Schwarzer

Mitchell Schwarzer is Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture at California College of the Arts, and a historian of architecture and urbanism. He has written books on architectural theory, visual perception, and the buildings of the San Francisco Bay Area. His most recent book is Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption (University of California Press, 2021). He is currently working on a book about Jewish place.

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Privatizing the Public City

A walk across downtown Oakland reveals the city’s lopsided boom.
A Short History of American Urban Exceptionalism

American urban development has long pursued its own distinctive course — an urbanism without fixed limits, with endlessly extendable boundaries.
The Emergence of Container Urbanism

The repurposed shipping container, now a fixture of urban architecture, is part of a movement that can be traced back to Archigram and the Metabolists in the 1960s.
Building After Auschwitz

A review of a new book in which historian Gabriel Rosenfeld asks a thorny question: Is there a Jewish architecture?
Place and Augmented Reality: Part 2

Augmented reality and social networking are bringing about nothing less than a new epoch of social relations.
Place and Augmented Reality: Part I

The real-time, mediating imageries of augmented reality are revolutionizing how we perceive and inhabit place.

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Mitchell Schwarzer

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Privatizing the Public City

A Short History of American Urban Exceptionalism

The Emergence of Container Urbanism

Building After Auschwitz

Place and Augmented Reality: Part 2

Place and Augmented Reality: Part I

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Mitchell Schwarzer

Articles

Privatizing the Public City

A Short History of American Urban Exceptionalism

The Emergence of Container Urbanism

Building After Auschwitz

Place and Augmented Reality: Part 2

Place and Augmented Reality: Part I