Dr. Gideon Fink Shapiro

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• Adjunct Instructor at Virginia Tech (2020)
• Adjunct Instructor at University of Pennsylvania (2014)
• Adjunct Instructor at Temple University (2013)

BIO

Gideon Fink Shapiro is an independent historian and critic who directs research and business development initiatives at MBB Architects in New York. His essays have appeared in publications such as The Avery Review, Places, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Landscape Architecture Plus (LA+), Architectural Record, Domus, Curbed, and New York Review of Architecture. He has worked on exhibitions and programs with cultural institutions such as the New York Center for Architecture, the Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture, and 1014: Space for Ideas. His doctoral research at Penn was supervised by John Dixon Hunt.

PH.D. DISSERTATION

The Promenades of Paris: Alphand and the Urbanization of Garden Art, 1852-1871

RECENT ARTICLES

• “Luxury for All,” Places, 2022
• “Yesterday’s Future,” New York Review of Architecture, 2022
• “Narrating Ornament: Rayyane Tabet’s Arabesque and Alien Property,” The Avery Review, 2020
• “Entre ingénierie et scénographie: Alphand et les jardins de Paris.” In Le grand Pari(s) d’Alphand : création et transmission d’un paysage urbain, edited by Yann Nussaume and Jean-Pierre Le Dantec. Paris: Editions La Villette, 2018.