Deborah Ascher Barnstone tapped to lead the University of Sydney's School of Architecture, Design and Planning

The University of Sydney has named Deborah Ascher Barnstone as its next Head of the School of Architecture, Design, and Planning. Barnstone comes to the position with extensive past teaching experience in Australia, the EU, and the United States, including positions at Washington State University, Ball State University, the University of Technology Sydney, and the Boston Architectural Center. She holds a Ph.D. from TU Delft in addition to her Master’s degree from the Columbia GSAPP, and worked as a professional dance choreographer before entering the architectural field, where she is also a noted historian. Her research has primarily focused on the development of modernism through the lens of Dutch and German artists and architects. Titles include 2005’s The Transparent State: Architecture and Politics in Postwar Germany (Routledge); 2016’s Another Modernity: Cultural Debates in Weimar era Breslau (University of Michigan); and the 2019 book The Break with the Past: German Avantgarde...