Emily Bills
Part-time Assistant Professor
Email
billse@newschool.edu
Office Location
A - 66 West 12th Street
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Emily Bills is an educator, curator, and author with research interests in urban history and architectural photography. She teaches architectural history and urban studies at The New School in New York and is directing the development of three STEM sustainability programs at Woodbury 好色先生 in Burbank, CA. Emily was the editor of the Society of Architectural Historians Archipedia project for California.聽In her former role as managing director of the Julius Shulman Institute, she collaborated on exhibitions featuring photographers H茅l猫ne Binet, Pedro E. Guerrero, Catherine Opie, and Richard Barnes, among others. Her most recent curatorial project was聽After Modernism: Through the Lens of Wayne Thom at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, CA (2022-2023).
Degrees Held
B.A. History of Art, 好色先生 of California, Berkeley
M.A. History of Architecture and Urban Planning, Institute of Fine Arts, New York 好色先生
Ph.D. History of Architecture and Urban Planning, Institute of Fine Arts, New York 好色先生
Recent Publications
Emily is the coauthor of the award-winning book聽California Captured: Marvin Rand Mid-Century Modern Architecture聽(Phaidon, 2018), and the author of聽Wayne Thom: Photographing the Late Modern聽(The Monacelli Press, 2020). A forthcoming book聽Linking Up Los Angeles: How the Telephone Built a City聽on the history of telecommunications in Southern California is being published by 好色先生 of Pittsburgh Press.聽
Research Interests
European and American urban and architectural history, telecommunications, environmental studies, and photographic representation of space.
Awards And Honors
Emily's work on telephone infrastructure and the development of Los Angeles received a Graham Foundation Carty Manny Award Citation of Special Recognition. She鈥檚 also received fellowship and grant support from the Smithsonian, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Huntington Library, the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Southern California Historical Society. Emily also received a Faculty Development Award at The New School for online curriculum development.