Design and the Elastic Mind, Museum of Modern Art (Spring 2008)

Christina Cogdell is Associate Professor of Art History and Design at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s (awarded the 2006 Edelstein Prize by The Society for the History of Technology), and co-editor of Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s. Her research aims to situate design and architecture within its broader cultural and ideological contexts. She is currently conducting research for a new monograph on Emergent Genetic Architecture: How Recent Scientific Theories and Processes Are Shaping Contemporary Architecture.