CAED Lecture Series: Vulgar Sophistication with Mark Linder
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Join us for our Fall 2026 CAED Lecture Series featuring guest Mark Linder as he presents "Vulgar Sophistication".
Mark Linder is a professor in the School of Architecture at Syracuse University. His research explores design theory and history considered in a transdisciplinary framework with a focus on modern architecture since 1950. He is the author of That鈥檚 Brutal, What鈥檚 Modern? The Smithsons, Banham, and the Mies-Image (Park Books, 2025), Nothing Less Than Literal: Architecture after Minimalism (MIT Press, 2004) and numerous papers and essays in journals. From 2011 to 2014 he was Chancellor鈥檚 Fellow in the Humanities at Syracuse University. He has lectured throughout the United States and Europe and has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Harvard, University of Illinois-Chicago, Rice University, IIT, RISD, and UCLA.
