Jonah Rowen

Jonah Rowen is an architectural historian whose work focuses on intersections between architectural technics, economics, commodities, and labor. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, where he wrote a dissertation on nineteenth-century Anglo-Caribbean colonial exchanges and buildings’ design and production, figured as technologies of risk management and security. He currently teaches architectural history and seminars at the New School - Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and the Cooper Union School of Architecture. He holds a Master of Architecture from Yale.

He has received research support as grants and fellowships, including, currently, as a UCLA Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow. He has published essays in Platform, Grey Room, Log, and Pidgin, and was a founding editor of Project: A Journal for Architecture, and has forthcoming essays in Aggregate, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and contributions to publications concerning race, materials, and architecture.