Eric Mumford

Eric P. Mumford is the Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also holds courtesy appointments in art history and archaeology, as well as history. His academic research and teaching focuses on the history of architectural design within various midcentury metropolitan and environmental contexts, many of them related to the history of CIAM, the International Congresses of Modern Architecture.

His books include “Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s-70s,” (Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum) the catalogue for a fall 2024 exhibition which he co-curated. He is also the author of several widely known works of architectural history, including a textbook, “Designing the Modern City: Urbanism Since 1850” (Yale University Press, 2018); “The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960" (MIT Press, 2000); “Defining Urban Design: CIAM Architects and the Formation of a Discipline, 1937-69" (Yale University Press, 2009); “Modern Architecture in St. Louis” (Washington University, 2004); and an earlier museum catalogue, “Ando and Le Corbusier, volume 2” (Alphawood Foundation, Chicago, 2021).

He was co-principal investigator with Mónica Rivera on “Edges of Privacy,” a housing research project in 2021-24, supported by a McDonnell International Scholars Academy Global Incubator Seed Grant. He currently an advisor to the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Humanity’s Urban Future committee (cifar.ca) and a steering committee member of the Genealogies of Urban Design Network (gudesign.org).