Enrique Ramírez

Enrique Ramirez is a writer and a historian of art and architecture. With a diverse background that connects scholarly work to larger dialogues about art and architecture, he maintains an active and evolving presence in architectural culture in the United States and abroad. Enrique is also Editor of the award-winning Manifest: A Journal of the Americas, as well as a Director of the Manifest Institute, an organization that seeks to foster critical and imaginative conversations about art, architecture and urbanism, literary studies, and landscape design in the Americas through innovative research, publications, outreach, and exhibition programs.

Enrique has a distinguished educational record. He received his Bachelor of Art in History from Northwestern University and his JD in Public and Private International Law from the George Washington University Law School. After studying Urban Planning at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), he received a Master of Environmental Design from Yale School of Architecture and a PhD in the History and Theory of Architecture from Princeton University. His work has been recognized and supported by various organizations, including the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Whiting Foundation, the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and most recently, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. He has also been a faculty member at Yale School of Art, where he taught seminars on print history at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Enrique’s presence as an architectural writer began in 2006 with the introduction of this is a456, one of the first blogs dedicated to architectural and urban history. Since then, his work has appeared in Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal, Harvard Design Magazine, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, the Journal of Architecture, Journal of Architectural Education, the Journal of the History of Ideas, AA Files, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Places Journal and other outlets. He has also contributed essays to several exhibition catalogs, including a piece for Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, curated by Jean-Louis Cohen and Barry Bergdoll at the Museum of Modern Art in 2013. He is currently at work on three books. The first, titled Lines of Least Resistance: Architecture, Aeronautics, and Other Airs of Modernity, is under development at the University of Texas Press. The second is a co-edited volume with Chris Grimley, Michael Kubo, and Mimi Zeiger called Late Modernism and Other Latenesses: Architecture, Materials and Media After Time, to be published by Park Books in 2025. The third, Aspect Ratio Matinee Idol, is an experimental biography of Craig Ellwood’s Case Study House 16, is also to be published by Park Books in 2025.