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Biography

I am a historian of modern architecture, design, and material culture. I have particular interests in the intersections of architecture with other media, the role of the built environment in public cultures, and the effects and affective dimensions of everyday design. In addition to my position in SSAC, I am cross appointed to the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture and to the School of Industrial Design at 杏吧原创, as well as being adjunct curator of Design at Ingenium: Canada鈥檚 Museums of Science and Innovation. I am currently Vice-President (Membership) of the聽聽and commissioning editor of聽.

My research has focused around a few areas. One has to do with the socio-political consequences and historiography of the cultural production known today under the label of Art Deco. My work has looked at sites in Canada, the United States, and India, ranging in scale from a radio in a living room to a skyscraper, NHL hockey arena to super-cinema, emphasizing the vast reach and cosmopolitan quality of this mode of design. I recently co-edited with Dr. Bridget Elliott (Western University) the聽.

A second area explores the visual and material culture of radio in Canada. 鈥淪eeing, Selling, and Situating Radio in Canada, 1922-56,鈥� a collaborative project with radio historian Dr. Anne MacLennan at York University, was supported by a SSHRC Insight Grant (2012-2015) and has generated a substantial database of visual culture drawn from popular magazines, newspapers, and archives. It culminated in an exhibition and catalogue in 2017. See聽聽for more on this research. I have also published on the spatial impact and design of radio architecture and infrastructure, with particular emphasis on the architecture of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

I鈥檓 interested in interiors and the challenges they pose for historians. We spend much of our lives in them, yet they are among the most mutable of designed spaces. I鈥檝e written about design and agency, with regards to radios and interior space, as well as the place of the piano in the Edwardian living room (with Prof. James Deaville in Music). Currently, I鈥檓 leading an interdisciplinary SSHRC-funded, collaborative project between 杏吧原创 University, Algonquin College, and Ingenium that also emphasizes the importance of quotidian spatial practices and interiors. 鈥淒esigning Domestic Dining鈥� has involved a series of interviews with members of the Anatolian community to examine the interrelationships of food, memory, the use of domestic technology, and interior space.

Finally, I鈥檓 excited to be working with Prof. Peter Coffman on the Virtual Museum of Architecture in Ottawa project, for which we were awarded a Teaching Achievement Award from the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) in 2019. Still in its early stages, the project mobilizes student research on the designed environment of the National Capital Region in the creation of a pedagogical and research tool.

Courses Taught

ARTH 1201 History and Theory of Architecture 2: 1600 to the present
ARTH 2310 Architecture of Early Modern Europe (1400-1750)
ARTH 2610 Twentieth-Century Architecture
ARTH 2710 Experiencing Architecture
ARTH 3107 History and Methods of Architectural History
ARTH 3710 Architecture and Empire
ARTH 3809 Art Deco and Interwar Modernity (Winter 2013)
ARTH 3810 Perspectives on Interiors (Fall 2019)
ARTH 4610 Art Deco in Context: Cosmopolitanism, Class, and Culture between the Wars (Fall 2014)
ARTH 4800 Thinking Inside the Box: Perspectives on Interiors (Fall 2015)
ARTH 4800 聽Architecture and the Mass Media (Fall 2013)
ARTH 4800 Reconstructing Canada: Architecture and Design, 1945-1968 (Fall 2012; Winter 2018)
ARTH 5112 Thinking Inside the Box: Approaches to Interiors (Winter 2014)
ARTH 5403 鈥� Fantasy and Fa莽ade: Art Deco and Meanings of Modernity (Fall 2019)

I have supervised undergraduate and graduate theses and directed readings courses on topics related to architectural history, design history, material culture, and heritage.

Selected publications

Books and Exhibition Catalogues:

Windover, Michael and Anne MacLennan.聽Seeing, Selling, and Situating Radio in Canada, 1922-1956. Foreword by Michelangelo Sabatino. Introduction by Christine Macy. Canadian Modern series. Halifax: Dalhousie Architectural Press, 2017. 136 pages. (Winner of Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medal in Popular Culture category)

Windover, Michael.聽Art Deco: A Mode of Mobility. Foreword by Rhodri Windsor Liscombe. Collection Patrimoine Urbain. Qu茅bec: Presses de l鈥橴niversit茅 du Qu茅bec, 2012. xxvii, 289 pages.

Books Edited:

Elliott, Bridget and Michael Windover, eds.聽The Routledge Companion to Art Deco. New York: Routledge, 2019. 432 pages.

Journal Issues Guest Edited

Southcott, Tanya and Michael Windover, eds. Special issue 鈥淲omen and Architecture.鈥澛�The Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada聽44, no.1 (2019). 84 pages.聽

Chapters in Edited Books:

Windover, Michael. 鈥淟istening for Design: Agency and History in a Philips Aachen-Super D 52.鈥� In聽Design and Agency: Critical Perspective on Identities, Histories and Practices, edited by John Potvin and Marie-脠ve Marchand, 97-110. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts.

Elliott, Bridget and Michael Windover. 鈥淚ntroduction: What鈥檚 the use of style? The case of Art Deco.鈥� In聽The Routledge Companion to Art Deco, edited by Bridget Elliott and Michael Windover, 1-10. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Windover, Michael. 鈥淎rt Deco and the Fashioning of Radio Spaces.鈥� In聽The Routledge Companion to Art Deco, edited by Bridget Elliott and Michael Windover, 139-159. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Windover, Michael and Hilary Grant. 鈥淭uning In to Radio Heritage in Newfoundland.鈥� In聽Politics of Scale. New Directions in Critical Heritage Studies, edited by Tuuli L盲hdesm盲ki, Suzie Thomas and Yujie Zhu, 140-155. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2019.

Windover, Michael.聽 鈥淒igging in the Gardens: Unearthing the Experience of Modernity in Interwar Toronto.鈥� In聽Architecture and the Canadian Fabric, edited by Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe, 217-245.聽 Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011.

Articles:

Windover, Michael. 鈥淏uilding Radio Publics in Post-war Canada.鈥澛�Journal of Architecture聽23, no. 6 (2018): 1046-1074.

Windover, Michael. 鈥淧lacing Radio in Sackville, New Brunswick.鈥澛�Buildings & Landscapes聽24, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 46-66.

Windover, Michael. 鈥�.鈥澛�RACAR聽40, no. 2 (2015): 42-56.

Windover, Michael. 鈥�.鈥澛�Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada聽36, no. 2 (2011): 5-12.

Windover, Michael.聽 鈥淓xchanging Looks: 鈥楢rt Dekho鈥� Movie Theatres in Bombay.鈥澛�Architectural History聽52 (2009): 201-232.

Windover, Michael.聽 鈥�.鈥澛犅�Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada聽32, no. 2 (2007): 55-68. (Martin Eli Weil Prize essay)