Michael Osman

Michael Osman is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA, where he directs the MA and PhD programs in Critical Studies. Osman’s research in architectural history focuses on the modern period with a particular emphasis on the buildings and cities of the United States. His book, Modernism’s Visible Hand: Architecture and Regulation in America (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), focuses on the history of environmental and economic systems of regulation in the United States. He is currently co-editing Writing by Design (with Daniel Abramson and Zeynep Celik Alexander on behalf of Aggregate: The Architectural History Collaborative) a volume on the selection of evidence and plotting of narratives in architectural history.