Christopher Curtis Mead

Christopher Mead taught from 1980 to 2013 at the University of New Mexico, where he was a Regents’ Professor with joint appointments in the School of Architecture and Planning and the College of Fine Arts. From 2004 to 2009, he served as Dean of the College of Fine Arts. He received his B.A. summa cum laude from the University of California at Riverside, and both his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. A past President and Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians, he has written and lectured widely on modern architecture and urbanism, including books on the American architects Robert Venturi, Bart Prince, and Antoine Predock, and the French architects Charles Garnier and Victor Baltard. He coordinated an online guidebook for the Society of Architectural Historians, “Archipedia: New Mexico,” and will publish The Hypospace of Japanese Architecture in 2023.