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Clare M Robinson

  • Associate Professor, Architecture
  • Assistant Professor, Social / Cultural / Critical Theory - GIDP
  • Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
  • (520) 621-6751
  • Architecture, Rm. 104
  • Tucson, AZ 85721
  • clarerobinson@arizona.edu
  • Bio
  • Interests
  • Courses
  • Scholarly Contributions

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Architecture
    • University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
    • Student Union: the architecture and social design of postwar campus community centers in California
  • M.Arch Architecture
    • Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
    • North, South, East, West (socio-spatial relationships of culture and ceremony)
  • B.A.
    • Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States

Work Experience

  • University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2012 - Ongoing)

Awards

  • Catherine Bauer Wurster Prize
    • Society of American Community and Regional Planning History (SACRPH), Fall 2019
  • JAE Best Article Award: Scholarship of Design
    • ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture ) and JAE (Journal of Architectural Education), Spring 2018

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Courses

2025-26 Courses

  • Hist+Thery III: Mod/Ctmp Arch
    ARC 333 (Fall 2025)
  • Hist+Thery III: Mod/Ctmp Arch
    ARC 533 (Fall 2025)
  • Proj Inquiry
    ARC 497 (Fall 2025)

2024-25 Courses

  • Independent Study
    ARC 599 (Summer I 2025)
  • Caps Studio
    ARC 498 (Spring 2025)
  • Research
    ARC 900 (Spring 2025)
  • Hist+Thery III: Mod/Ctmp Arch
    ARC 333 (Fall 2024)
  • Hist+Thery III: Mod/Ctmp Arch
    ARC 533 (Fall 2024)
  • Independent Study
    ARC 499 (Fall 2024)
  • Independent Study
    ARC 599 (Fall 2024)
  • Thesis
    ARC 910 (Fall 2024)

2023-24 Courses

  • Contemp Arch and Urban Theory
    ARC 471S (Spring 2024)
  • Contemp Arch and Urban Theory
    ARC 571S (Spring 2024)
  • Independent Study
    ARC 499 (Spring 2024)
  • Independent Study
    ARC 599 (Spring 2024)
  • Research
    ARC 900 (Spring 2024)
  • Hist+Thery III: Mod/Ctmp Arch
    ARC 333 (Fall 2023)
  • Hist+Thery III: Mod/Ctmp Arch
    ARC 533 (Fall 2023)
  • Master's Report
    ARC 909 (Fall 2023)
  • Thesis
    ARC 910 (Fall 2023)

2022-23 Courses

  • Colloquium: Urban Agency
    ARC 495B (Spring 2023)
  • Contemp Arch and Urban Theory
    ARC 471S (Spring 2023)
  • Contemp Arch and Urban Theory
    ARC 571S (Spring 2023)
  • Research
    ARC 900 (Spring 2023)
  • [ABouT] Journal
    ARC 471J (Spring 2023)
  • [ABouT] Journal
    ARC 571J (Spring 2023)
  • Design Std I: Site, Form, Spac
    ARC 201 (Fall 2022)
  • Hist+Thery III: Mod/Ctmp Arch
    ARC 333 (Fall 2022)
  • Hist+Thery III: Mod/Ctmp Arch
    ARC 533 (Fall 2022)

2021-22 Courses

  • H/T Elective
    ARC 596B (Spring 2022)
  • History + Theory of Arch IV
    ARC 471S (Spring 2022)
  • History + Theory of Arch IV
    ARC 571S (Spring 2022)
  • Design Std I: Site, Form, Spac
    ARC 201 (Fall 2021)
  • Hist+Thery III: Mod/Ctmp Arch
    ARC 333 (Fall 2021)
  • Hist+Thery III: Mod/Ctmp Arch
    ARC 533 (Fall 2021)
  • Thesis
    ARC 910 (Fall 2021)

2020-21 Courses

  • H/T Elective
    ARC 496B (Spring 2021)
  • H/T Elective
    ARC 596B (Spring 2021)
  • History + Theory of Arch IV
    ARC 471S (Spring 2021)
  • Research
    ARC 900 (Spring 2021)
  • Design Std I: Site, Form, Spac
    ARC 201 (Fall 2020)
  • Hist+Thery III: Mod/Ctmp Arch
    ARC 332 (Fall 2020)
  • Hist+Thery III: Mod/Ctmp Arch
    ARC 533 (Fall 2020)

2019-20 Courses

  • Thesis
    ARC 910 (Spring 2020)
  • Design Studio I: Principles
    ARC 201 (Fall 2019)
  • Hist+Theory of Arch:Modern Arc
    ARC 533 (Fall 2019)
  • History + Theory III: Mod Arch
    ARC 332 (Fall 2019)

2018-19 Courses

  • Design Studio II: Dwelling
    ARC 202 (Spring 2019)
  • H/T Elective
    ARC 496B (Spring 2019)
  • Design Studio I: Principles
    ARC 201 (Fall 2018)
  • History + Theory of Arch IV
    ARC 471S (Fall 2018)

2017-18 Courses

  • H/T Elective
    ARC 471B (Spring 2018)
  • Hist+Theory of Arch:Modern Arc
    ARC 533 (Spring 2018)
  • History + Theory III: Mod Arch
    ARC 332 (Spring 2018)
  • History + Theory of Arch IV
    ARC 471S (Fall 2017)
  • History + Theory of Arch IV
    ARC 571S (Fall 2017)
  • Independent Study
    ARC 599 (Fall 2017)

2016-17 Courses

  • H/T Elective
    ARC 471B (Spring 2017)
  • H/T Elective
    ARC 571B (Spring 2017)
  • Hist+Theory of Arch:Modern Arc
    ARC 533 (Spring 2017)
  • History + Theory III: Mod Arch
    ARC 332 (Spring 2017)
  • History + Theory of Arch IV
    ARC 471S (Fall 2016)
  • History + Theory of Arch IV
    ARC 571S (Fall 2016)
  • Honors Thesis
    ARC 498H (Fall 2016)
  • Senior Capstone
    ARC 498 (Fall 2016)
  • Special Tops in Social Science
    HNRS 195H (Fall 2016)

2015-16 Courses

  • H/T Elective
    ARC 471B (Spring 2016)
  • H/T Elective
    ARC 571B (Spring 2016)
  • Hist+Theory of Arch:Modern Arc
    ARC 533 (Spring 2016)
  • History + Theory III: Mod Arch
    ARC 332 (Spring 2016)

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Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

  • Robinson, C. M. (2018). Messages, Media, and Meaning of Campus Community Centers: College Union Buildings as Campus "living rooms". [TRANS]media, 4, 39-48.
  • Robinson, C. M. (2017). Un-repressing Class to Reinterpret the Tradition of Mid-century Modern Architecture and its Preservation in Tucson, Arizona. TDSR.
  • Robinson, C. M. (2016). Architecture in Support of Citizenry: Vernon DeMars and the Berkeley Student Union. Journal of Architecture Education.
  • Robinson, C. M. (2016). The innovator: the experimental architecture of Arthur T. Brown, FAIA. Tucson Modernism Week Annual.
  • Robinson, C. M. (2015). Postwar Union Buildings in California: modern spaces for citizenship and consumerism. Association of College Unions International Bulletin, 83(1).

Proceedings Publications

  • Robinson, C. M., & Adkins, A. S. (2020, June). Arizona Negro Motorist Green Book neighborhoods at the intersection of history, heritage conservation, and planning. In EAAE-ARCC.
  • Robinson, C. M. (2018, May). Architecture and Culture of College Union Buildings and the Changing Meaning of the ‘Campus Living Room’. In ARCC-EAAE.
  • Robinson, C. M. (2017, Spring). The Tradition of Aesthetic Governmentality in Preservation Practice and the Mid-century Subdivision. In IASTE.
  • Robinson, C. M. (2016, June). Architecture for a Changing University Citizenry. In ARCC-EAAE.
  • Robinson, C. M. (2014, February). Ideological Ends of Mid-century Student Union Buildings: a study of disciplinary connections. In ARCC & EAAE.
  • Robinson, C. M. (2013, March). Visualizing the Social Underpinnings of a Building Type and Widespread Adoption of Student Unions. In ARCC.

Presentations

  • Robinson, C. M. (2019, April). College Unions as Instruments of Campus Planning and Expansion. Society of Architectural Historians.
  • Robinson, C. M. (2019, March). Edith Ouzts Humphreys' Influcence on American College Union Architecture. International Archive of Women in Architeccture Center.
  • Robinson, C. M. (2018, April). Cold War Cafeterias on University Campuses. SAH.
  • Robinson, C. M. (2018, June). Neighborhood preservation against aesthetic governmentality and affluence. AMPS. London.
  • Robinson, C. M. (2018, October). Creating Coed Campus Living Rooms: the integration of women into male student union buildings. Southeast Society of Architectural Historians.
  • Robinson, C. M. (2015, November). Planning and Preserving the Mid-century Subdivision: the case of Pueblo Gardens. SACRPH. Los Angeles, CA.
  • Robinson, C. M. (2017, March). Hybrid Identities of Student Union Buildings at Mid-century. HERA.
  • Robinson, C. M. (2016, December). The Tradition of Aesthetic Governmentality in Preservation Practice and the Mid-century Subdivision. IASTE.
  • Robinson, C. M. (2015, April). Mid-century modern revisted: the case of Pueblo Gardens. Society of Architectural Historians (SAH). Chicago, IL.
  • Robinson, C. M. (2015, March). Class, Ethnicity, and the Mid-century subdivision: re-examining Pueblo Gardens. Nomad Seminar on Historioraphy. University of San Diego, San Diego, CA.
  • Robinson, C. M. (2014, April). Midcentury Student Unions for Middle-class College Culture. SAH.
  • Robinson, C. M. (2013, September). Modern Mid-century Student Union Buildings for Middle-class College Culture. SeSAH.

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