Associate Professor Matthew Mindrup
Undergraduate Co-ordinator and Program Director Bachelor of Design in Architecture
Co-Program Director Bachelor of Architecture &
Environments
An architect by training, Matthew completed a Ph.D. in Architecture and Design at Virginia Tech University on the physical and metaphysical coalition of two architectural models assembled by Kurt Schwitters in the early 1920s. Dr. Mindrup's ongoing research in the history and theory of architectural design locates and projects the implications that materials have in the design process. Dr. Mindrup has presented some of this research at conferences and published others in The Journal of Architectural Education (JAE), Interstices, Wolkenkuckucksheim and his edited volume The Material Imagination: Reveries on Architecture and Matter (Routledge, 2015). In August of 2019, Matthew will welcome the publication of his new book: The Architectural Model: Histories of the Miniature and the Prototype, the Exemplar and the Muse (MIT Press, 2019)
The Use of Architectural Models
The Material Imagination
Early Twentieth Century German Architecture
Bauhaus Design Pedagogy
History and Theory of Architecture
Utopias
Assemblage and Adaptive Reuse in Architecture
Cosmopoiesis
Selected publications
Publications
Books
- Mindrup, M. (2019). The Architectural Model: Histories of the Miniature and the Prototype, the Exemplar and the Muse. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Edited Books
- Mindrup, M., Chee, L. (2022). Remote Practices: Architecture at a Distance. London: Lund Humphries Publishers.
- Mindrup, M., Altenmuller-Lewis, U. (2015). The City Crown by Bruno Taut. Farnham: Ashgate.
- Mindrup, M. (2015). The Material Imagination: Reveries on Architecture and Matter. Farnham: Ashgate.
Book Chapters
- Mindrup, M., LaCoe, J. (2022). Fresh Eyes: The Practice of the Remote at the Bauhaus. In Matthew Mindrup and Lilian Chee (Eds.), Remote Practices: Architecture at a Distance, (pp. 74-80). London: Lund Humphries Publishers.
- Mindrup, M. (2020). Anagogical Themes in Schwitters' Kathedrale des erotischen Elends. In Ross Anderson and Maximilian Sternberg (Eds.), Modern Architecture and the Sacred: Religious Legacies and Spiritual Renewal, (pp. 196-207). London: Bloomsbury. [More Information]
- Mindrup, M. (2020). Greek Temple Design and the Kathedrale des Erotischen Elends. In Not known (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook on the Reception of Classical Architecture, (pp. 477-488). TBC. [More Information]
Journals
- Mindrup, M. (2023). Findings Materials, Assembling Models. The Architectural Review.
- Mindrup, M. (2023). From Doll’s House to Dream House. Architectural Theory Review, 27(2), 277-297. [More Information]
- Mindrup, M. (2022). Book Review 4: Wharton, Annabel Jane. Models and World Making: Bodies, Buildings, Black Boxes Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022. Montreal Architectural Review, 8(2), 21-24.
Conferences
- Mindrup, M. (2023). Surrealist Alchemy and the Transubstantiation of Reuse. 2023 Frascari Symposium VI: Finishing: The Ends of Architecture, Symposium: Society of Architectural Historians.
- Mindrup, M., LaCoe, J. (2020). Fresh Eyes and the Primitive Pedagogy of the New Bauhaus. Remote Practices: Architecture in Proximity Symposium, University of Sydney & National University of Singapore: The University of Sydney and National University of Singapore.
- Mindrup, M. (2020). Prolegomenon to an Art of Forgetting in Adaptive Reuse. SAHANZ, What if? What next? Speculations on History's Futures, Perth: Society Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ).
Exhibitions / Events
- Mindrup, M. (2023). (in)Exactitude and the Digital Twin: Limitations and Possibilities in Re-presenting the Built Environment. Canada: The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, e-flux Architecture. [More Information]
2023
- Mindrup, M. (2023). (in)Exactitude and the Digital Twin: Limitations and Possibilities in Re-presenting the Built Environment. Canada: The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, e-flux Architecture. [More Information]
- Mindrup, M. (2023). Findings Materials, Assembling Models. The Architectural Review.
- Mindrup, M. (2023). From Doll’s House to Dream House. Architectural Theory Review, 27(2), 277-297. [More Information]
2022
- Mindrup, M. (2022). Book Review 4: Wharton, Annabel Jane. Models and World Making: Bodies, Buildings, Black Boxes Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022. Montreal Architectural Review, 8(2), 21-24.
- Mindrup, M., LaCoe, J. (2022). Fresh Eyes: The Practice of the Remote at the Bauhaus. In Matthew Mindrup and Lilian Chee (Eds.), Remote Practices: Architecture at a Distance, (pp. 74-80). London: Lund Humphries Publishers.
- Mindrup, M., Chee, L. (2022). Remote Practices: Architecture at a Distance. London: Lund Humphries Publishers.
2021
- Mindrup, M. (2021). The architect's task: the use of models as structural expressionism. ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly, 25(1), 4-16. [More Information]
2020
- Mindrup, M. (2020). Anagogical Themes in Schwitters' Kathedrale des erotischen Elends. In Ross Anderson and Maximilian Sternberg (Eds.), Modern Architecture and the Sacred: Religious Legacies and Spiritual Renewal, (pp. 196-207). London: Bloomsbury. [More Information]
- Mindrup, M., LaCoe, J. (2020). Fresh Eyes and the Primitive Pedagogy of the New Bauhaus. Remote Practices: Architecture in Proximity Symposium, University of Sydney & National University of Singapore: The University of Sydney and National University of Singapore.
- Mindrup, M. (2020). Greek Temple Design and the Kathedrale des Erotischen Elends. In Not known (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook on the Reception of Classical Architecture, (pp. 477-488). TBC. [More Information]
2019
- Mindrup, M. (2019). The Architectural Model: Histories of the Miniature and the Prototype, the Exemplar and the Muse. Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Mindrup, M. (2019). Thinking and Imagining Architecture at a Distance with Models. Montreal Architectural Review, 6, 45-59.
2017
- Fernando, S., Mindrup, M. (2017). Model as machine/machine as model: Emerging representational devices in stereotomic practice. EAAE ARCC 10th International Conference (EAAE ARCC 2016), 15-18 June 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, Portugal: CRC Press.
- Mindrup, M. (2017). Strange Tales of Architectural Evolution. In P. Emmons, M. Feuerstein, C. Dayer (Eds.), Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture, (pp. 141-150). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
2016
- Mindrup, M. (2016). Bauspiel as immaterial investigation: Avant-garde experiments with generative architectural models. In Sandra Karina Loschke (Eds.), Materiality and Architecture, (pp. 195-212). Abingdon: Routledge.
2015
- Mindrup, M. (2015). Editor's Note: Interrogating the Gap Between the Material and Formal Imagination: An Introduction. In Matthew Mindrup (Eds.), The Material Imagination: Reveries on Architecture and Matter, (pp. 1-9). Farnham: Ashgate.
- Mindrup, M. (2015). Introduction: Advancing the Reverie of Utopia. In Matthew Mindrup, Ulrike Altenmuller-Lewis (Eds.), The City Crown by Bruno Taut, (pp. 1-30). Farnham: Ashgate. [More Information]
- Mindrup, M. (2015). La Réaction Poétique of a Prepared Mind. Le Corbusier, 50 years later: International Congress, Valencia: Universitat Politecnica de Valencia. [More Information]
2014
- Mindrup, M. (2014). Bauhaus Translations from Material to Architecture. SAHANZ Unitec Auckland 2014: Translation, 31st Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand and Gold Coast, Queensland.: Auckland, New Zealand SAHANZ and Unitec ePress, and Gold Coast, Queensland: SAHANZ.
- Mindrup, M. (2014). Kurt Schwitters' Architectural Models. Journal of the Kurt Schwitters Society, 4, 23-38.
- Mindrup, M. (2014). Translations of Material to Technology in Bauhaus Architecture. Cloud-Cuckoo-Land: international journal of architectural theory, 33(19), 161-172.
2013
- Mindrup, M. (2013). The Merz Mill and The Cathedral of the Future. Intersticies, 14, 49-58.
2012
- Mindrup, M. (2012). Assembling the Architectural Imagination: The Changing Role of the Physical Model as Nexus between Architect and Idea. 2011 ACSA Fall Conference, Houston, TX, USA: ACSA Press.
- Mindrup, M. (2012). Bauhaus Exercises on the Material Imagination. 2012 Interstices Under Construction Symposium.
2009
- Altenmuller-Lewis, U., Mindrup, M. (2009). The City Crown: By Bruno Taut. Journal of Architectural Education, 63(1), 121-134. [More Information]
2008
- Emmons, P., Mindrup, M. (2008). Material Models and Immaterial Paradigms in the Rietveld Schröder House. Journal of Architectural Education, 62(2), 44-52. [More Information]
Selected Grants
2012
- Partitioning Place, Mindrup M, Lackawanna County Department of Arts and Culture/Art and Culture Grant
2011
- Nominal Topographies, Mindrup M, Lackawanna County Department of Arts and Culture/Art and Culture Grant