Scott Colman

Theory and Criticism of Contemporary Design
History and Theory of Modern Architecture

History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture
M.Arch. Thesis

Scott Colman, “Abundance, with Concision and Equality: The Values of Ludwig Hilberseimer’s Rational Modernism,” in Type (3 July, 2026), https://www.type.ie/blog/modernism-is-almost-all-right-abundance-with-concision-and-equality-the-values-of-ludwig-hilberseimers-rational-modernism

Scott Colman, “Synchronization and Symbiosis: Adrian Snodgrass, Kishō Kurokawa, and the Translation of Tradition in Global Architectural Theory,” in Architectural Theory Review, 30, no. 1 (1 June, 2026): 23–38. Online: https://doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2026.2645751. ISSN: 1326-4826 (Print); 1755-0475 (Online).

Scott Colman and Albert Pope, “Hierarchy and Equivalence in Urban Reform,” in Martin Haettasch, ed., Radical Middle Grounds: New Agendas for Medium-Density Housing, Center, no. 25 (Austin: Center for American Architecture and Design, 2024), 10–17. ISBN: 978-0-934951-43-2.

Scott Colman, convenor, Re:Writing Urban Design, symposium, La Cité de Refuge de L’armée du Salut, Paris, February 27, 2024. Speakers: Tom Avermaete, John J. Casbarian, Scott Colman, Françoise Fromonot, Reto Geiser, Janina Gosseye, Albert Pope, Robert Schuldenfrei, Charles Waldheim.

Scott Colman, “The Sphere of Ludwig Hilberseimer’s Urbanism,” in Nathan Friedman, ed., Sphere, no. 0 (2024): 16–21. ISSN: 3064-7746.

Scott Colman, Review of Bates Smart, Australian Embassy, Washington, D.C., -2023, in Architecture Australia (March 2024), 36–42. ISSN: 0003-8725.

Scott Colman, Ludwig Hilberseimer: Reanimating Architecture and the City (London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023). In the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series edited by Tom Avermaete and Janina Gosseye. ISBN: 1350068020 and 9781350068025; e-book: 9781350068032 and 9781350068049. Paperback published November, 2024. ISBN: 1350369411 and 978-1350369412.

Shreya Challa, “’City of Equality’: Scott Colman writes on Ludwig Hilberseimer,” Rice Thresher, November 4, 2023, https://www.ricethresher.org/article/2023/11/city-of-equality-scott-colman-writes-on-ludwig-hilberseimer

Scott Colman, “The Pantheon of Things,” postscript to Lars Lerup, The Life and Death of Objects: Autobiography of a Design Project (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2022), 219–225. ISBN 978-3-0356-2510-3; 978-3-0356-2511-0.

Scott Colman, “Ludwig Hilberseimer and Creative Indifference,” in Florian Strob, ed., Architect of Letters: Reading Hilberseimer, Bauwelt Fundamente, vol. 174 (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2022): 194-207. ISBN: 9783035624861.

Scott Colman and Frauke V. Josenhans, convenors, Reading the City: Perspectives on the Contemporary Global Metropolis, symposium, October 14-15, 2022, Moody Center for the Arts and Rice University School of Architecture, Rice University. In association with Frauke V. Josenhans, curator, Urban Impressions: Experiencing the Global Contemporary, September 16 to December 17, 2022. Speakers: Walter Benn Michaels, Gökçe Günel, Tekena Koko, Fabiola López-Durán, Giovanna M. Bassi Cendra, Sindhu Thirumalaisamy.

Scott Colman, “Calare Public School (Stage 2), Orange, 1968, J. Moran, R. Scott, E. H. Farmer,” in Guillermo Fernández-Abascal and Hamish McIntosh, Regional Bureaucracy: Works by the NSW [New South Wales] Government Architect’s Office from 1958 to 1988 (Thornbury: Perimeter Editions 068, 2021), 92–95. ISBN: 978-1-9225-4506-0; 1-9225-4506-6.

Scott Colman, “Pliable Praxis House [Interloop––Architecture],” in Isabelle Doucet and Janina Gosseye, eds., Activism at Home: Architects dwelling between politics, aesthetics, and resistance (Berlin: Jovis, 2021), 307–320. ISBN 978-3-86859-633-5.

Scott Colman, “Ludwig Hilberseimer’s 1951 Plan of Chicago,” in Tom Avermaete and Janina Gosseye, convenors, Histories of Urban Design: Global Trajectories and Local Realities, conference, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, November 15–17, 2021.

Scott Colman with Adam Berman, Jimmy Bullis, and Pouya Khadem, “Far Beyond Buildings: In Conversation with Scott Colman,” in Plat, 9.5 (2021), https://www.platjournal.com/ninepointfive/in-conversation-with-scott-colman

Scott Colman and Lars Lerup, “An American Distance,” in Roberto Damiani, ed., The Architecture and the Public: On George Baird’s Contribution to Architecture (Macerata: Quodlibet, 2020), 259–270. ISBN: 8-8229-0401-X; 978-8-8229-0401-0

Scott Colman, “Dolmen on the Beach—vague thoughts on the acknowledgement of architecture as architecture in the context of [Walter Benn] Michaels on [Andrew] Atwood re [Michael] Fried,” in Plat, 9.0 (2020): 18–27. [A response to Walter Benn Michaels in conversation with Sebastián López Cardozo, “Uninterested/Unequal/Understood: Architecture’s Class Aesthetic,” in Plat, 9.0 (2020): 8–17.] ISSN 2162-4305.

Scott Colman with Lars Lerup, “Outrage on Calle de Alcalá,” in Hélène Frichot and Naomi Stead, eds., Writing Architectures: Ficto-Critical Approaches (London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020), 153–164. ISBN: 978-1-3501-3790-5; 978-1-3501-3791-2; 978-1-3501-3792-9.

Scott Colman, “Maps Neither Quite Found nor Made,” in Guillermo Fernández-Abascal and Urtzi Grau, eds., Melbourne, Sydney: References, Reflections, and Remarks (Sydney: UTS da Waranada gunyamara bamulmara / Architecture and Landscape at UTS, 2019): 41–42. ISBN 978-06485032-0-0.

Scott Colman, “Westfield’s Architecture, from the Antipodes to London,” in Tom Avermaete and Janina Gosseye, eds., Acculturating the Shopping Centre (Milton Park and New York: Routledge, 2018): 18–37. ISBN 978-1472485045; 1472485041.

Scott Colman and Lars Lerup, “After the Raw and the Cooked [Xaveer de Geyter Architects],” in Jesús Vassallo, ed., “Nature as a Construction Material,” Revista de Arquitectura, 42 (2018): 42–53. ISSN: 1138-5596 ISSN-e: 2254-6332.

Scott Colman, “Quotation in Wittkower’s Neo-Palladianism,” in Gevork Hartoonian and John Ting, eds., Quotation: What does history have in store for architecture today? Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Canberra, July 5-8, 2017 (Canberra: SAHANZ, 2017), 67–76. ISBN: 978-0-646-98165-9.

Lars Lerup and Scott Colman, “One Step Closer to Arcadia?” in Texas Architect (July/August, 2017): 50–55. ISSN: 0040-4179.

The Mortician (Scott Colman), “Resurrecting the Corpus,” in Flat Out, 2 (2017): 3, 39–40.

Scott Colman, “Prisonship Earth,” Scientia Lecture Series: Privacy, Rice University, Houston, September 20, 2016.

Scott Colman, “Rowe’s Courthouse Utopia,” in Judith O’Callaghan and Paul Hogben, eds., Architecture, Institutions, and Change, Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 32 (Sydney: SAHANZ, 2015), 92–101. ISBN: 9780646942988.

Scott Colman, “From the Modern Center to the Contemporary Complex: Westfield’s Architecture from the Antipodes to London,” in Janina Gosseye and Tom Avermaete, eds., The Shopping Centre, 1943-2015: The Rise and Demise of a Ubiquitous Collective Architecture, conference proceedings (Delft: Delft University of Technology, 2015): 56–69. ISBN: 978-94-6186-467-3.

Scott Colman and Ron Witte, eds., Judgment (Houston: Rice School of Architecture, 2014). ISBN: 9780989961202; 0989961206.

Scott Colman, “Promoting the New City: Ludwig Hilberseimer at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1944,” in Robert Freestone and Marco Amati, eds., Exhibitions and the Development of Modern Planning Culture (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014), 111–129. ISBN: 9781409454595; 1409454592.

Scott Colman, “Soft Progressivism in a Wasteland of Urban Code,” in Neeraj Bhatia and Lola Sheppard, eds., Bracket [Goes Soft] – architecture, environment, digital culture, almanac, 2 (Barcelona and New York: Actar, 2012), 145–149. ISBN: 9788415391029.

Scott Colman, “Mythologizing Architectural Technique in the Early Writing of Colin Rowe,” in Stuart King, Anuradha Chatterjee, and Stephen Loo, eds., Fabulation: Myth, Nature, Heritage (Launceston: SAHANZ, 2012), 219–240. ISBN: 9781862956582.

Scott Colman, “Projecting Theory for a Projective Architecture,” in Efe Duyan, ed., Theory for the Sake of Theory, vol. 1, Archtheo ’11 Conference Proceedings, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (Istanbul: Dakam Publishing, 2011), 207–215. ISBN: 978-605-4514-04-5.

Scott Colman, “Float On: A Succession of Progressive Architectural Ecologies,” in Lisa Tilder and Beth Blostein, eds., Design Ecologies: Essays on the Nature of Design (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010), 146–163. ISBN: 9781568987835; 1568987838.

Assistant Editor for Lisa Tilder and Beth Blostein, eds., Design Ecologies: Essays on the Nature of Design (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010). ISBN: 9781568987835; 1568987838.

Scott Colman, “Post-Modernism and the Foreclosure of the Architectural Imaginary,” in Michael Chapman and Michael Ostwald, eds., imagining ... (Newcastle: SAHANZ, 2010), 94–100. ISBN: 9780646536903; 0646536907.

Scott Colman, “Michael Cadwell, Strange Details, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2007,” in Architectural Theory Review, 13, 3 (2008): 368–372. ISSN: 1326-4826.

Scott Colman, “Observations on the New New Babylon,” in Log, 12 (Spring-Summer, 2008): 40. ISSN: 1547-4690.

Scott Colman, “The Metropolis: Architecture’s Moving Image,” in John McMorrough, ed., Foreign Office Architects (Columbus, Ohio: Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University, 2008), 32–43. OCLC: 703263279.

Scott Colman, Organism and Artefact—The Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Circle and the Chicago School: Architecture, Planning, and Sociology circa 1944, Doctoral Dissertation (Sydney, University of Sydney, 2007).

Scott Colman, “Murcutt and Mies,” in Maryam Gusheh and Naomi Stead, eds., Progress (Sydney: SAHANZ, 2003), 68–74. ISBN: 1864875747; 9781864875744.

Scott Colman, “The Performance of Art in the City: Mies van der Rohe’s Museum for a Small City and Cullinan Hall,” in John Macarthur and Antony Moulis, eds., Additions to Architectural History (Brisbane: SAHANZ, 2002), 66 and CD-ROM. ISBN: 1864996471.

Scott Colman, “Drawing the Line Between Technology and Nature in Architectural Theory: Blade Runner’s Critique of the Intention of the Primitive Hut,” in Architectural Theory Review, 6, 1 (2001): 156–174. ISSN: 1326-4826. [Double-Blind Refereed]

Scott Colman, “Architectural Narrative: On Michael Speaks’ Ruminations on a ‘Big Soft Orange,’” in Architectural Theory Review, 5, 2 (2000): 112–27. ISSN: 1326-4826. [Double-Blind Refereed]

Scott Colman, The Consistency of the Void in Architecture/Writing, B.Sc.Hons. Thesis (Sydney, University of Sydney, 1998).