Edward Dimendberg

Picture of Edward Dimendberg
Professor
School of Humanities
Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz, 1992, History of Consciousness
Phone: (949) 824-4873
Fax: (949) 824-2464
Email: ed1@uci.edu
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Architecture, Urbanism, Modernism, Modernity
Academic Distinctions
Rudolf Arnheim Visiting Professorship, Humboldt University Berlin, 2014 (declined).
Publications
Richard Neutra and the Making of the Lovell Health House, ed. Edward Dimendberg, (London: Lund Humphries, 2025).
Anton Wagner, The Development, Life, and Structure of the City of Two Million in Southern California, critical edition by Edward Dimendberg, (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2022).
The Moving Eye: Film, Television, Architecture, Visual Art, and the Modern, ed. Edward Dimendberg, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
Alla Sekula: Facing the Music: Walt Disney Hall and the Redevelopment of Downtown Los Angeles, (East of Borneo/California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, 2015).
Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013).
Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004).

The Weimar Republic Sourcebook, edited by Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, and Edward Dimendberg (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994)
Grants
Fulbright Fellowship at Free University of Berlin, J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship, Canadian Centre for Architecture Fellowship, Daimler Fellowship at American Academy in Berlin, Graham Foundation research grant, UC Presidential Humanities Fellowship, Institute for Cultural Sciences (IFK) Senior Fellowship (Vienna, Austria), Center for Creative Photography Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Getty Research Institute Consortium Scholar Fellowship.
Professional Societies
Society of Architectural Historians
Modern Language Association
UNESCO International Committee on Museums
Other Experience
Humanities Editor,
University of California Press, UCLA, 1990—1998
Chair,
UCI Council on Research, Computing, and Libraries, 2015—2016
Member, Faculty Editorial Committee of University of California Press,
2016
Member of Board of Directors,
Society of Architectural Historians, 2016
Member of Publications Committee,
Modern Language Association, 2016
Chair, UCI School of Humanities Executive Committee, 2022-2023

Chair, Film and Video Prize Jury, Society of Architectural Historians, 2015-2016.

Convener, Graduate Student Grant and Fellowship Workshop
UCI Humanities Center 2014—2024
Last updated
05/27/2024