Stratigakos named to Martin House board – UB Now: News and views for UB faculty and staff – University at Buffalo Reporter

Despina Stratigakos, vice provost for inclusive excellence and professor of architecture in the School of Architecture and Planning, has been named to the board of directors of the Martin House.

Frank Lloyd Wrights Martin House, designed and built from 1903-05, is considered by Wright scholars to be a significant turning point in the evolution of Wrights Prairie house concept. The National Historic Landmark is located in the Parkside neighborhood of Buffalo.

An architectural historian, Stratigakos conducts research that explores how power and ideology function in architecture, whether in the creation of domestic spaces or world empires.

She is the author of four books. Hitlers Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway (2020) examines how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to construct a model Aryan society in Norway during World War II. Where Are the Women Architects?(2016) confronts the challenges women face in the architectural profession.Hitler at Home(2015) investigates the architectural and ideological construction of the Fhrers domesticity.A Womens Berlin: Building the Modern City(2008) traces the history of a forgotten female metropolis. It won the German Studies Association DAAD Book Prize and the Milka Bliznakov Prize.

Stratigakos has served as a director of the Society of Architectural Historians, an adviser of the International Archive of Women in Architecture at Virginia Tech and as a trustee of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation.

She has taken part in Buffalos municipal task force for Diversity in Architecture, and was a founding member of the Architecture and Design Academy, an initiative of the Buffalo Public Schools to encourage design literacy and academic excellence.

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Stratigakos named to Martin House board - UB Now: News and views for UB faculty and staff - University at Buffalo Reporter