Amanda Reeser Lawrence

Amanda Reeser Lawrence is an architectural historian, theorist, editor, and trained architect. Lawrence’s published books include: The Architecture of Influence; The Myth of Originality in the Twentieth Century (University of Virginia Press, 2023); James Stirling: Revisionary Modernist (Yale University Press, 2013); Terms of Appropriation (Routledge 2017), co-edited with Ana Miljacki; and Agenda: The Official Catalogue of the 2014 Architecture Biennale in Venice, co-edited with Ana Miljacki, Eva Franch I Gilabert, and Ashley Schafer.

Lawrence has published articles in Log, Perspecta, Future Anterior, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Journal of Architectural Education, CASE, Architectural Theory Review, and ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly. Her scholarship has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Graham Foundation, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and the Graduate Society at Harvard University.

She was founding co-editor of the architectural journal Praxis: A Journal of Writing + Building, an award-winning journal of contemporary architecture of the Americas operating from 1999-2020.

At Northeastern, Lawrence currently serves as the Associate Director for the School of Architecture. She has also served as the Graduate Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Program Coordinator, and oversaw the creation and implementation of the BS in Architectural Studies degree, for which she served as coordinator for four years. Lawrence has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, MIT, and Harvard University. She received her PhD in architectural history and theory from Harvard University, her Master of Architecture from Columbia University and her BA Summa Cum Laude from Princeton University.

Lawrence is part of a collaborative team (including Northeastern professors Lucy Maulsby, Sara Carr and Mary Hale) researching the Southwest Corridor Project in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also developing a book manuscript on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright (“Studies and Executed Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright”)—more commonly known as the Wasmuth Portfolio.