Kai Gutschow Bio

Kai Gutschow teaches modern architectural history and theory, and is coordinator of the second-year architectural design studios in the School of Architecture. His background is both in history and design, and he is constantly working to find connections between the two. He began working in architectural offices in high school, studied art history at Swarthmore College, then completed a two-year, guild-based cabinetmaking apprenticeship in Hamburg, Germany, where he also designed and crafted several small architectural projects. He went on to earn a professional Master of Architecture degree at the University of California at Berkeley while working independently and in several architectural offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, and spent a year working as an architect and preservation planner in Nepal and traveling extensively in India and Asia. Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, he taught at Washington State University and enrolled in a Ph.D. program in architectural history through the Department of Art History at Columbia University in New York. After extensive research in German and European archives, he is currently finishing his dissertation on German architectural criticism in the 1920s. The research has formed the basis for several published articles, and was funded by fellowships from Columbia, the Jacob Javitts Foundation, the Fulbright Commission and the Parliament of Berlin. He brings these experiences to his work by bringing an emphasis on theory, precedent and craft into his design studios, and focusing on theory and intellectual history in his courses on modern architecture.

	*Kai Gutschow, Assistant Professor of Architecture*
	Kai Gutschow teaches modern architectural history and theory, and is coordinator of the second-year architectural design studios in the School of Architecture. His background is both in history and design, and he is constantly working to find connections between the two. He began working in architectural offices in high school, studied art history at Swarthmore College, then completed a two-year, guild-based cabinetmaking apprenticeship in Hamburg, Germany, where he also designed and crafted several small architectural projects. He went on to earn a professional Master of Architecture degree at the University of California at Berkeley while working independently and in several architectural offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, and spent a year working as an architect and preservation planner in Nepal and traveling extensively in India and Asia. Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, he taught at Washington State University and enrolled in a Ph.D. program in architectural history through the Department of Art History at Columbia University in New York. After extensive research in German and European archives, he is currently finishing his dissertation on German architectural criticism in the 1920s. The research has formed the basis for several published articles, and was funded by fellowships from Columbia, the Jacob Javitts Foundation, the Fulbright Commission and the Parliament of Berlin. He brings these experiences to his work by bringing an emphasis on theory, precedent and craft into his design studios, and focusing on theory and intellectual history in his courses on modern architecture.