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Diana Martinez is an architecture historian specializing in the history and theory of architecture. She earned her BA in Architecture from UC Berkeley in 2001, followed by a Master of Architecture from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) in 2006 and a PhD from the same institution in 2017. Martinez's research focuses on the built environment of the Philippine Islands as a critical examination of the U.S. imperial project. Her forthcoming book, Concrete Colonialism: Architecture, Urbanism, and the United States' Imperial Project in the Philippines, published by Duke University Press in 2025, analyzes the profound impact of a single material in the context of the U.S. colonial enterprise. She is currently working on another manuscript, Master Plans: Colonial Roots of Urban Renewal, which connects the historic 1905 Plan for Manila with early 20th-century city planning in the United States. Martinez teaches courses like Architectures of U.S. Empire and Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism at UC Berkeley.
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