Dr. Marcia F. Feuerstein

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• Associate Professor (retired), Virginia Tech, College of Architecture Arts and Design, (Washington Alexandria Architecture Center: 2004-2023), 1996 – 2023 (27 years)

• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Temple University, Department of Architecture, 1991-1996 (5 years)

• Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Architecture, 1993-1995 (2 years)

• Visiting Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo, Architecture, 1985 – 1988 (3 years) 

BIO

Marcia F Feuerstein has is an architectural theorist, historian and practitioner. A registered architect,  she taught at Virginia Tech as associate professor of Architecture(1996-2023) / VT's Washington Alexandria Architecture Center Masters and PhD programs (2004-2023) and taught at University of Buffalo, Temple University, and U. Penn.  Feuerstein studied at Tufts University (B.S.), University at Buffalo (M. Arch) and the University of Pennsylvania (PhD in Architecture, Theory and History)and has been a guest lecturer and reviewer throughout the USA, Canada, and Europe.  Her creative work, research, and publications consider architecture through the lens of the body, embodiment, performance, and theater with a focus on artist and performer Oskar Schlemmer.  She has also written on women architects, storytelling, performance, and the nature of representations. Her creative works include published and exhibited analytical montages.  She has practiced architecture in Buffalo (NY), NYC, and Philadelphia.

PH.D. DISSERTATION

Oskar Schlemmer's Vordruck: The Making of an Architectural Body for the Bauhaus

RECENT ARTICLES

• "Camouflage after the Bauhaus: Oskar Schlemmer, Làszló Moholy-Nagy and György Kepes," Co-Author, in Architectures of Hiding: Crafting Concealement, Omission, Deception, Erasure, Silence, edited by Rana Abughannam, Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, Pallavi Swaranjali & Federica Goffi, Routledge, 2023 (in press)
• "'After' the Original: High Costs, Low Roads and Circumventions" in The Routledge Companion to Drawings and Models: From Translating to Archiving, Collecting and Displaying, edited by Federica Goffi, Routledge, 2022.
• "'In the sky with diamonds' of Ronchamp's East Wall: Constellations of Thought," Montreal Architecture Review, 6(2019):29-43 31 Dec 2019.
• "Oskar Schlemmer's Vordruck: an absent woman within a Bauhaus canon of the body," Theatre and Performance Design, 5 (1-2): 125-140, 3 Apr 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2019.1605767
• "Looking Down to Look Up" in Ceilings and Dreams: the architecture of levity, edited by Paul Emmons et al, Routledge, 2019.