Matthew Lopez is a first-year PhD student in the Department of Art History and Archeology at Columbia. His research focuses on the entangled social, environmental, and technical histories of the 19th industrial architecture in Europe and North America. He holds an MDes from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a BA in comparative literature from UNC Chapel Hill. He has published on topics that include the history of temperature regulation in British textile mills and the philosophical stakes of diagrammatic inscription in medieval scholasticism and contemporary psychoanalytic theory in Thresholds and RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics.
