Dr. Eve Blau

Biography

Eve Blau is an adjunct professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, specializing in history, theory, and urban form design. She teaches elective courses such as Urban Form Design and conducts research seminars, including the Berlin Laboratory and Mapping Cultural Space in Eurasia. As the co-director of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, she promotes innovative research approaches to studying urban environments and has developed collaborative practices that encourage urban-focused research. With a background as a curator and editor, she has published extensively on modern architecture and urbanism, with works addressing post-socialist urban transformations, architectural history, and representation intersections. Blau has received numerous awards for her scholarship, including the Victor Adler Prize and the Society of Architectural Historians’ Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award. Her notable publications include Baku: Oil Urbanism and analyses of urban spatial form in contexts of rapid sociopolitical changes. Additionally, she has held prestigious fellowships and roles in academic and cultural organizations, contributing to the discourse in urban studies and architectural theory.

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