Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Faculty Member, Architecture

Associate Professor

School of Architecture

About

Thomas Mical completed his professional M.Arch. at Harvard GSD 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 Hegelian-Surrealism Account of the Genesis and Inversion of Impossible Worlds."

Summer 2011 travel includes the Visiting Teachers Programme at the Architectural Association, London; Bonn Summer School on German Idealism; and the NEH Summer Institute on Modern India in New Delhi.

Thomas Mical has previously taught design and theory at the Illinois Institute of Technology, the University of Florida, Georgia Tech, the Technical University of Vienna, Carleton University, and the Boston Architectural Center.

Teaching Areas:
  - History of Modern Thought in Architecture
  - Critical Aesthetics and the Historical Imagination
  - Theories and Technologies of Transparency

Books-in-progress:
  - A Hauntology of Modern Architecture
  - Ambient Media-Architecture Theory
  - From Transparency to Blur