PUBLICATIONS

Christina E. Crawford. Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022.

Detroit-Moscow-Detroit: An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917-1945. Co-edited volume with Claire Zimmerman and Jean-Louis Cohen, MIT Press, forthcoming 2023.

Cover of Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 81, no. 2 (June 2022). Wood-frame houses in the Beaver Slide neighborhood, with Spelman College in the background, Atlanta, 1934 (Charles F. Palmer Papers, box 168, folder 5, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University). Cover article: Crawford, Christina E. “Black Community Building: New Deal Programmatic Advocacy at Atlanta’s University Homes.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 81, no. 2 (June 2022), 213-234.

Joan Busquets and Christina Crawford. Chicago Boundless: Two Grids Between Lake and River (Redesigning Gridded Cities series). San Francisco: AR+D Publishers, 2017.

Urban Housing Atlas. Tim Love, Christina Crawford, Chris Genter, Matthew Littell, eds. Boston: pinkcommabooks, 2008.

Christina E. Crawford. "The Case to Save Socialist Space: Soviet residential landscapes under threat of extinction." In Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture, edited by Ellen Braae and Henriette Steiner. London: Routledge, 2019, 260-73.

Christina's texts for download are on ResearchGate and Academia.edu as well. Her ORCID ID is 0000-0002-0401-8430.

 

BOOKS

Crawford, Christina E. Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union. Cornell University Press, 2022. Open Access version available through OA Open Library, TOME, Cornell Open, Google Books, De Gruyter Open, Project MUSE and others.

> Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians Book Award (Winner 2023)

> University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies (Honorable Mention 2023)

> Book Reviews in

Ab Imperio by Heather DeHaan

Contemporary European History by Heather D. DeHaan

Eurasian Geography and Economics by Polina Gundarina

Europe-Asia Studies by Sofia Borushkina

Journal of Planning History by Chad Bryant

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians by Kateryna Malaia

Journal of Urban History by Annemarie Sammartino 

Russian Review by Katherine Zubovich

Slavic Review by K. Paul Zygas

Slavonic and East European Review by Deirdre Ruscitti Harshman. 

Technology and Culture by Iva Glisic

ZARCH by Ginés Garrido

> New Books Network interview with Bryan Toepfer

Detroit-Moscow-Detroit: An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917-1945. Co-edited volume with Claire Zimmerman and Jean-Louis Cohen, MIT Press, 2023.

> Named a Best Architecture Book of 2023 by Architect’s Newspaper

> Book Reviews in

Foreign Affairs by Maria Lipman

Busquets, Joan and Christina Crawford. Chicago Boundless: Two Grids Between Lake and River (Redesigning Gridded Cities series). San Francisco: AR+D Publishers, 2017.

Urban Housing Atlas. Tim Love, Christina Crawford, Chris Genter, Matthew Littell, eds. Boston: pinkcommabooks, 2008.

ARTICLES

Christina E. Crawford and Alessandro Porotto. “From hof to homes: Interwar housing exchange between Vienna and Atlanta.” Journal of Architecture, Feb 2024 (online first). Click here for pdf.

Crawford, Christina E. “Black Community Building: New Deal Programmatic Advocacy at Atlanta’s University Homes.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 81, no. 2 (June 2022), 213-234. Click here for pdf.

Crawford, Christina E. “Atlanta Citizenship and Housing, Success and Setback.” Platform, June 14, 2021, platformspace.net.

Crawford, Christina E. “From Tractors to Territory: Socialist Urbanization through Standardization.” Journal of Urban History, “Second World Urbanity” special issue, Vol. 44(1), 54-77. Doi: 10.1177/0096144217710233. Winner of the 2017 Emerging Scholar Prize, Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA). 

Crawford, Christina E. “In an Extraordinary Space.” Architecture Boston 20: no.2 (2017): 20-23.

Crawford, Christina E. "From the Old Family—to the New." Harvard Design Magazine 41: Family Planning (2015): 38-45. Pdf available here.

Crawford, Christina E. "The Innovative Potential of Scarcity in SA’s Comradely Competition for Communal Housing, 1927."  ArchiDOCT 1, no. 2 (2014).

Crawford, Christina. "Urban Space or State Monument? The Maydan in Kiev." Archis 2 (2003): 46-49.

Crawford, Christina. "Kul'tura Torgovogo Tsentra (Mall Culture)." ACC (Art, City, Construction) / Ukraine 41, no. 10 (2003): 44-45.

Crawford, Christina E. "A Declaration of Independence." Metropolis, December (2002): 54.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Crawford, Christina E. "The Case to Save Socialist Space: Soviet residential landscapes under threat of extinction." In Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture, edited by Ellen Braae and Henriette Steiner. London: Routledge, 2019, 260-73.

Love, Tim and Christina Crawford. "Plot Logic: Character-Building through Creative Parcelisation." In Urban Design and the Real Estate Development Process, edited by Steve Tiesdell and David Adams. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

REVIEWS / interviews

Crawford, Christina E. “Postperipheral: Enacting a Horizontal History of Architecture and Empire.” Architectural Histories 11, no. 1 (December 18, 2023).

Crawford, Christina E. Review of Monotown: Urban Dreams, Brutal Imperatives by Clayton Strange. Journal of Urban Design, January 2021, vol. 26, no. 1: 133-135.

Crawford, Christina E. Review of Brokers of Modernity: East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910-1950 by Martin Kohlrausch. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 2020, vol. 79, no. 3: 344-346.

Crawford, Christina E. "Industries of Architecture." Journal of Architectural Education, November 16, 2017. 

Crawford, Christina E. with Darra Goldstein. "Under the Bed is a Cool, Dark Place." Harvard Design Magazine, no. 43: Shelf Life (2106).

Crawford, Christina E. "The Mound of Vendôme." Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation History Theory & Criticism 12, no. 1 (Summer 2015): 102-09.

Crawford, Christina E. "Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, MOMA New York." Architecture Boston 13, no. 2 (2010).

web-based publications

Crawford, Christina E. "Soviet Planning Praxis: From Tractors to Territory." Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Centerpiece 29, no. 2 (2015).

Crawford, Christina E. "Genplan 101: How to Read a Socialist General Plan Drawing." Second World Urbanity, http://www.secondworldurbanity.org/category/master-plan-of-the-socialist-city/, 2015.

EXHIBITIONS

Crawford, Christina. "Mini Monuments or Little Monsters." Essay written for Heroic exhibit, Pinkcomma Gallery, Boston, MA.

“Kyiv Renaissance.” Architectural photographs, Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, NY.

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