Edward Ford

B.S., Washington University;
M.Arch., Washington University

Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor

Edward Ford is the author of The Details of Modern Architecture (MIT, 1990, German edition: Birkhauser, 1994, Japanese Edition: Maruzen, 2000) and The Details of Modern Architecture, Volume 2 (MIT, 1996, Japanese Edition: Maruzen, 2000), both supported by grants from the Graham Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has published articles in L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Inform, B, eAV, Detail, Harvard Design Magazine, and Perspecta He was a consultant to the 1992 American Heritage Dictionary and a contributor the 2006 Architectural Graphic Standards.

His architectural work has been published in The New American House, Japan Architect, Competitions, 18 Houses, ARQ, Inform, The Chronicle of Higher Education and Oculus and has been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Chicago Foundation for Architecture. He won second prize in the 1990 Matteson Library Competition and third prize in the 1990 Japan Architect Competition. In 2002 the Ford house won an Honor Award for Design from the Virginia AIA.

In 1997 he was the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from Washington University and his publications have been recognized by the Association of Academic Publishers, the AIA, Lingua Franca, and the Architects Journal. In 2004 he was the Thomas Jefferson Visiting Fellow at Downing College at the University of Cambridge. He has lectured at the National Building Museum, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Maryland, Catholic University, Ohio State University, the University of Michigan, Parsons School of Design, Syracuse University, Clemson University, Georgia Tech, Mississippi State University, the University of British Columbia, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the University of Cambridge, the Architektur Zentrum, Vienna, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Versailles, and the Norske Arkitektakademi and was co-chairman of the 1996 ACSA National Technology Conference.