Faculty Profile

Jeff Chusid headed Historic Preservation programs at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Southern California before joining Cornell in 2005. His recent research has focused on three areas: the fate of historic resources in areas of cultural exchange and conflict; the conservation of Modernist Architecture of Southern California; and cultural landscapes. Current projects include a Preservation Plan for Austin, Texas, a book on Frank Lloyd Wright's Freeman House in Los Angeles (forthcoming in 2006), and materials conservation for the restoration of Wright's Ennis House. Chusid has consulted on public policy, resource inventory, conservation, and urban design for cities such as Shanghai, China; Sevastopol, Ukraine; Levuka, Fiji; and Bastrop, Texas. He has also worked on building and landscape conservation projects for several museums such as the Huntington and Hearst Castle. Chusid is an architect, with built projects in several California cities, and has taught architectural history, theory, and design at Harvard, Sci-Arc, Berkeley, Cal Poly Pomona, Texas, and USC. He is also scheduled to teach at the University of New Mexico in the summer of 2006.