Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió

Recent and forthcoming publications include:

• “Palm Springs and the Nomos of Modernity: Prefabricated Steel Houses, Automation, and Settler Colonialism in Postwar America, 1943–1968,” in Productive Universals—Specific Situations: Critical Engagements in Art, Architecture and Urbanism, edited by Anne Kockelkorn & Nina Zschocke (Sternberg Press)

• “Infrastructures of Dependency: U.S. Steel and Architectural Expertise in Palm Springs, California, and Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, 1940–1965,” in Systems and the South: Architecture in Development (Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative)

• “Socializing Practice: From Small Firms to Cooperative Models of Architecture Work” (co-written with Aaron Cayer, Shawhin Roudbari, and Peggy Deamer), in Spatial Practices: Modes of Action and Engagement with the City, edited by Mel Dodd and Shumi Bose (Routledge)

• “Complexity and Contradiction in Infrastructure: On the Schumacher-Trump Hegemony,” in The Avery Review (Columbia University)

• “Swarms and the Geopolitical Imagination,” in John Gerrard: Power.Play, edited by Robin Mackay (Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing)

• “Contracts,” in The Art of Inequality: Architecture, Housing, and Real Estate, edited by Reinhold Martin, Jacob Moore, and Susanne Schindler (Buell Center)

• “Foucault’s ‘Environmental’ Power: Architecture and Neoliberal Subjectivization,” in The Architect as Worker (Bloomsbury)

• The Politics of Parametricism: Digital Technologies in Architecture (Bloomsbury)

• “Securitizing the Demos: Constructing the First U.S. Real Estate Financial Index, 1975–1983,” in ARQ journal

• “Automated Architectures of Leisure,” in Work, Body, Leisure, the Dutch pavilion’s catalogue for the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennial

• “Origins of the Neoliberal City,” in STADIUM, the Chile pavilion’s catalogue for the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennial

• “Defending Democracy: Against Anarcho-Capitalist Architecture,” in ARCH+: Journal for Architecture and Urbanism (“The Property Issue”)

• “For an Architecture of Radical Democracy” (with Peggy Deamer), in Project journal

• “Architecture: On the Geontopolitics of Knowledge and Time,” in Ed, print journal of Archinect.com

Since 2015, he has been Research Coordinator for The Architecture Lobby, an organization advocating for the value of architecture in the general public and for architectural work within the profession.

His work has been supported by the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, The Huntington Library and Archives, and the Graham Foundation, among others.