George B. Johnston

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George Johnston's current research focuses upon the social history American architectural practice in the first half of the twentieth century. His work addresses inter-linked questions of how the profession of architecture simultaneously perpetuates and challenges the social constructs and conventions of the dominant culture; and the way specific instruments of practice manifest mostly unacknowledged minefields of symbolic significance. His research on the social history of Architectural Graphic Standards, which forms the focus of his dissertation project, is yielding new insights on the vocational basis of the architectural profession. Johnston is especially open to and able to support research and design projects that involve themes of memory and modernity; institutions of cultural exhibition and display; approaches to American vernacular architecture and cultural landscape; discourses and practices linking representation and technology; and the critique of the everyday.