| Publications
Books
- Prefurbia: Redesigning the Suburbs from Disdainable to Sustainable ? co-authored with Rick Harrison, published 2008 by Sustainable Land Development International.
- Editor of two book-length essays , “Architecture in Minnesota at the Turn of the Century,” by Alan K. Lathrop; and “Purcell & Elmslie, Architects,” by Mark Hammons, published in Life on the Upper Mississippi, 1890-1915: Minnesota 1900; Michael Conforti, general editor; Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 1994.
- Contributed “Architectural History in the Post-Modern Era: An Argument for the Humanist Viewpoint,” as the introductory essay to be published in a forthcoming collection of essays by David Gebhard.
Selected articles
- “The Wright Choice: Attention to Original Details Helps Bring a Frank Lloyd Wright Kitchen Back to Life,” Old House Journal, March-April 2009.
- “Restoring Wright: An Innovative Frank Lloyd Wright design becomes better than new,” Old House Journal, October 2008.
- "Smooth Move," Old-House Journal, April 2004.
"Revolutionary Residential Community Designs: Coving Revisited," Civil Engineering News, November 2003.
- "Saving a Piece of Minnesota History: The Mower House," Old-House Journal, April 2003.
- “Historic Places: Wright Here in Mason City,” Old-House Journal, September 2001.
- “Minneapolis: A City That Works,” Old-House Journal, May 2001.
- “Ralph Rapson: 60 Years of Modern Design,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2000 (exhibition review).
- “Minneapolis Prairie School,” Architecture Minnesota Sep/Oct 1998.
- "The Pencil in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hand,” Journal of the Taliesin Fellowship, Summer 98 (an interview with John Howe).
- “Alexander Tylevich: Integrating Sculpture and Architecture,” Architecture Minnesota Jan/Feb 1998.
- "The Underachieving Cantilever," Old-House Journal, June 1997.
- “Architectural History in the Post-Modern Era: An Argument for the Humanist Viewpoint,” With Respect to Architecture (news journal of the Minnesota Chapter of Society of Architectural Historians), April 1996.
- “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Concrete Fence: A Lesson in Architecture,” With Respect to Architecture, April 1994.
- “Leonard K. Eaton and the Invention of Contextual Architectural History,” With Respect to Architecture, January 1993.
- “Anti-Semitism and Practice in the USSR,” Progressive Architecture, August 1991.
- “Satkowski’s Mystery on the Tiber,” With Respect to Architecture, December 1990.
- “Wright’s Smallest Residence: The Seth Peterson Cottage,” With Respect to Architecture, December 1990.
- Book review: Gateway Cities and Other Essays by Leonard K. Eaton, With Respect to Architecture, October 1990.
- “Norwest’s Modernism Collection: Integration of Object and Context,” With Respect to Architecture, May 1990.
- Review, Cesar Pelli & Associates' Norwest Bank Building in Minneapolis, MPLS. ST. PAUL Magazine, April 1989.
- "Building Bridges With Walls," Arts, September 1987.
- "Salute to John H. Howe," Arts (for members of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts), August 1987.
- "A Prairie Home and its Companions," MPLS. ST. PAUL Magazine, August 1986.
- "How to Select an Architect," MPLS. ST. PAUL Magazine, April 1986.
Editing
- 1988-1993: Founded and annually wrote, edited, and published four issues of the news-journal, With Respect to Architecture for the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians.
- 1993-94: Editor of the international Society of Architectural Historians Newsletter; enlarged, redesigned, and repositioned the Newsletter to include articles on architectural history.
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