Specialization:
Areas of Concentration: Modern and contemporary architecture, preservation, and landscape
Faculty Advisor: Volker M. Welter
Committee Members: Richard Wittman, Mark Edward Ruff (History, Saint Louis University), María González Pendás (History of Architecture and Urbanism, Cornell University)
Dissertation: "Building Catholic Modernity: Religion, Community, and Architecture in Cologne, 1919-60"
M.A. Thesis: "The Role of Museums and Historic Preservation in the Creation of German National Identity, Illustrated in the Magazine Die Denkmalpflege, 1899-1922," completed 2022
Bio:
Alexander Luckmann is a Ph.D. Candidate researching modern and contemporary architecture in Europe and the United States, particularly in relation to religion, historic preservation, and “the environment.” His dissertation, Building Catholic Modernity: Religion, Settlement, and Architecture in Cologne, 1919-1960, analyzes Catholic church and settlement architecture as a vector for discourses of technology, family, urbanization, and property in 20th-century Germany. With Volker M. Welter, he is the co-editor of Constructing and Reconstructing History in Twentieth-Century German Architecture (New York: Routledge, 2025). He has presented extensively in the United States and Europe and has published in The Architect’s Newspaper, New York Review of Architecture, Slate, and elsewhere. He previously worked as a landscape designer at Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates in Brooklyn, NY. He received a BA in Art History from Vassar College and an MA in the History of Art and Architecture from UC Santa Barbara.
For a full CV and further information, please see Alexander’s website 
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Publications:
“Hermann Muthesius als Denkmalpfleger?” In Erhalten und Gestalten. Zum Verhältnis zwischen Denkmalpflege und Architektur, eds. Johanna Blokker and Svenja Hönig. Holzminden: Verlag Jörg Mitzkat, 2026. https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1814.c27824
Constructing and Reconstructing History in Twentieth-Century German Architecture , edited by Alexander Luckmann and Volker M. Welter, Routledge, February 2025. (Originally special issue of Art in Translation).
"A Forensic Architecture exhibition in Germany uses real life narratives and architecture to document violence and systemic racism ," The Architect's Newspaper, July 28, 2022.
"Who is Paying for the Public Life? ," Slate, November 2, 2021.