Christina Cogdell

Christina Cogdell is Associate Professor of Design & Art History at the University of California at Davis. Her 2004 book, Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s, won the 2006 Edelstein Prize for outstanding research on the history of technology. She is currently working on a new book that examines “emergent genetic architecture” in light of recent scientific theories of self-organization, evolution, and complex adaptive systems. One goal of Cogdell’s research is to contribute to our understanding of the history of the relationship between computers and architecture, a topic which is only now beginning to receive attention.