Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Faculty Member, Architecture
Associate Professor
About
Thomas Mical is from Chicago. He completed his professional M.Arch. at Harvard with a thesis on "Blade Runner Urbanism for Cyber-City Tokyo", and his first doctorate (in architectural theory) at Georgia Tech and Emory, which examined the influence of Nietzsche‘s Eternal Recurrence in Georgio de Chirico‘s 'Metaphysical' Urbanism. His second doctorate, in media-philosophy through the European Graduate School, is entitled "A Surrealism Haunts Hegel (Soluble Landscapes & Desiring-Machines)."
Thomas Mical has previously taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology, the University of Florida, Georgia Tech, the Technical University of Vienna, and Carleton University.
Teaching Areas:
- History of Modern Thought in Architecture
- Critical Aesthetics and Media Theory
- Theories and Technologies of Transparency
Books-in-progress:
- Mies and Negative Theology
- The Stealth Landscape
- Ambient Architecture
- From Transparency to Blur
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