“REFERENCE, REPETITION, AND REPLICATION: THOUGHTS ON THE UNORIGINAL”
Amanda Reeser Lawrence is an architectural historian, theorist, editor, and trained architect. Lawrence’s published books include: The Architecture of Influence; The Myth of Originality in the Twentieth Century (University of Virginia Press, 2023); James Stirling: Revisionary Modernist (Yale University Press, 2013); Terms of Appropriation (Routledge 2017), co-edited with Ana Miljacki; and Agenda: The Official Catalogue of the 2014 Architecture Biennale in Venice, co-edited with Ana Miljacki, Eva Franch I Gilabert, and Ashley Schafer. At Northeastern, Lawrence currently serves as the Associate Director for the School of Architecture. She has also served as the Graduate Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Program Coordinator, and oversaw the creation and implementation of the BS in Architectural Studies degree, for which she served as coordinator for four years. Lawrence has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, MIT, and Harvard University. She received her PhD in architectural history and theory from Harvard University, her Master of Architecture from Columbia University and her BA Summa Cum Laude from Princeton University.
