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Max Page
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Associate Professor
Department: Art & Art
History
Room: Fine Arts Center 452
Email: mpage@art.umass.edu
Fon: (413) 545-6940
Max Page is the Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor of Architecture and History
at the
University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he teaches urban,
architectural, and public history. He is the author of The Creative
Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 (University of Chicago Press, 1999),
which won the Spiro Kostof Award of the Society of Architectural
Historians, for the best book on architecture and urbanism.
He writes
for a variety of publications about New York City, urban development and the
popular uses of history. He is also the co-editor (with Steven
Conn) of Building the Nation: Americans Write Their Architecture, Their
Cities, and Their Environment (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003),
as well as the co-editor (with Randall Mason) of Giving Preserving a
History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States
(Routledge, 2003). He is a recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Courses:
- The City
- American Urbanism
- History and Theory of Historic Preservation
- History of New York City
- Introduction to Public History
- Philosophy of Architecture
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