MORTON, Patricia A. 1955-

PERSONAL: Born October 16, 1955, in Twin Falls, ID; daughter of Howard L. (a research scientist) and Gloria (an artist; maiden name, Isaak) Morton; married John A. Dutton, September 5, 1992; children: Mae X. Education: Yale University, B.A., 1978; Columbia University, M.Arch., 1983; Princeton University, Ph.D., 1994.

ADDRESSES: Offıce—Department of Art History, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0319. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Architectural historian and educator. Peter Forbes and Associates, Boston, MA, architectural designer, 1978-80; James Stewart Polshek & Partners, New York, NY, 1983-87; Columbia University, New York, NY, adjunct assistant professor of architectural history, 1984; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, teaching assistant, 1987-90; Barnard College, adjunct assistant professor of architectural history, 1992; University of California, Riverside, assistant professor, 1993-2000, associate professor of architectural history and theory, 2001—, department chair, 2003—. Resident fellow, University of California Humanities Research Institute, 1996; Fulbright senior scholar, University of Umea, Sweden, 1999.

MEMBER: College Art Association, Society of Architectural Historians, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.

AWARDS, HONORS: Graham Foundation grant, 1995, for Womenhouse (Web site); Affirmative Action Faculty Development Award, University of California, Riverside, 1995-96; University of California, Riverside, academic senate grants, 1994-2003, and conference grant, 2000; fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, 2002.

WRITINGS:

(Editor) Wrapper; or, Forty Possible City Surfaces for the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture (Los Angeles, CA), 2000.

Hybrid Modernities: Architecture and Representation at the 1931 International Colonial Exposition in Paris, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA), 2000.

Contributor to anthologies, including Architecture of the Everyday, Princeton Architectural Press (New York, NY), 1997; Toward a New Urbanism for Sweden?, Umea University, 2002; and Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Architecture, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. Contributor to periodicals, including Journal of Architectural Education, Dialogue, Surface, Oz, Casabella, Art Bulletin, and Design Book Review.

SIDELIGHTS: An associate professor of architectural history at the University of California, Riverside, Patricia A. Morton is the author of Hybrid Modernities: Architecture and Representation at the 1931 International Colonial Exposition in Paris. The world-class exposition, bringing together all the wonders of the then-modern world, was housed in central Paris, and the buildings designed for this event reflect, in Morton's view, a hybrid mixture of French and French colonial styles that was designed, according to Morton, to "segregate France and her colonies." According to David Prochaska in the Journal of Modern History, Hybrid Modernities "demonstrates how certain works of architecture functioned as metonyms [or symbols] for their respective cultures and how, in other cases, fair architects monumentalized vernacular architecture to create heightened effects."

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Journal of Modern History, June, 2002, David Prochaska, review of Hybrid Modernities: Architecture and Representation at the 1931 International Colonial Exposition in Paris, p. 424.*