LECTURES SINCE c. 2000

‘Origins of an Essay on Kirchner’s 1915 Self-Portrait as a Soldier’ (1980)
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, 12 February 2020

‘Classic Mondrian in Neo-Calvinist View: The Watson Gordon Lecture’
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2018

Ad Reinhardt as Thomas Merton’s College Friend
St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge University, May 2011

‘Loos and Minimalism’
Edinburgh College of Art, April 2009
Also: University of Cambridge Martin Centre for Architectural Research
SERIES AT EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART IN MARCH 2007:

‘The Ornamental in Loosian Theory and Practice’
‘Formalism, Functionalism, and the Wittgenstein House in the History of Art’
First in Montréal, October 2005 (see conference papers); afterward at
University of Cambridge Department of History of Art

‘Loos, Architecturelessness, and the Sustainability of the Art,’
Also: University of Cambridge Martin Centre for Architectural Research

‘(Adolf) Loos and the Loo’
Future Academy Studiolab Open Hustings, Saint Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh,
10 March 2007

‘The Picturesque Slum: A Problem in Social Aesthetics’
University of Cambridge Martin Centre for Architectural Research, April 2005
Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, March 2005
Prize lecture at Hofstra University (above), February 2004
Pratt Institute Department of Art History, Brooklyn, New York, May 2002
University of Edinburgh Department of Fine Art, February 1999 [Brief initial discussion of the problem]

‘Malevich—A Spiritual Revolutionary Art?’
The Catholic Worker, New York, October 2003

‘Loos and Fine Art: Scandalous Beauty from the Anti-Artist of Architecture’
Program in Comparative Literature and Theory
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, January 2002

‘Bishop Berkeley’s American House in Modern View’
Samuel Dorsky Symposium on Public Monuments: XI Annual Tribute to
Rudolf Wittkower, New York, March 2001
University of Maryland, February 2001
Glasgow School of Art, February 1999
Edinburgh College of Art, February 1999

‘Iffy Abstract Art: Jonathan Lasker and the Limits of Skepticism’
University of Edinburgh Department of Fine Art, February 1999
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., September 1993
Yale University School of Art, New Haven, February 1993
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, March 1992

Loos and Minimalism
Edinburgh College of Art, April 2009; Martin Centre for Architectural Research, Cambridge University, April 2009

Formalism, Functionalism, and the Wittgenstein House in the
History of Art
Cambridge University Department of History of Art, March 2007; Edinburgh College of Art, March 2007

Loos, Architecturelessness, and the Sustainability of the Art
Edinburgh College of Art, March 2007; Martin Centre for Architectural
Research, Cambridge University, March 2007

The Picturesque Slum: A Problem in Social Aesthetics
University of Edinburgh Department of Fine Art, February 1999 (brief initial discussion of the problem);
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, May 2002; Alice Sawyer Prize Lecture,
Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, February 2004;
Cambridge (England) School of Art, Anglia Ruskin
University, March 2005 (David Ryan’s class); Cambridge University:
Martin Centre for Architectural Research, April 2005

Adolf Loos and Imperial New York
Samuel Dorsky Symposium on Public Monuments: XIII Annual Tribute to Rudolf Wittkower,
New York, March 2003; Edinburgh College of Art, April
2003; Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, Glen Cove, New York, April 2003;
Cambridge University Department of History of Art, May 2005

Malevich—A Spiritual Revolutionary Art?
The Catholic Worker, New York, October 2003

Bishop Berkeley’s American House in Modern View
Edinburgh College of Art, February 1999; Glasgow School of Art, February
1999; University of Maryland, February 2001; Samuel Dorsky Symposium on
Public Monuments: XI Annual Tribute to Rudolf Wittkower, New York, March 2001

Iffy Abstract Art: Jonathan Lasker and the Limits of Skepticism
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, March 1992; Yale
University School of Art, New Haven, February 1993; Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, D. C., September 1993; Edinburgh College of Art, February
1999; Department of Fine Art, University of Edinburgh, February 1999

Materiality and Constructive Tradition
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 1985; University of
Virginia, Charlottesville, December 1985; Syracuse University,
November 1986

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Self-Portrait as a Soldier
Yale University School of Art, New Haven, October 1976; Independent Studies
Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 1978; Society of
Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University, New York, May 1980

Robert Smithson’s Earthworks
Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas, January 1974