Dr. Brett Tippey, Architect

Dr. Brett Tippey is Program Coordinator for Architectural Studies and Associate Professor in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Kent State University. He holds a Doctorate in History and Critical Analysis of Twentieth-century Spanish Architecture (2011) from the University of Navarra (Spain), a Master of Architectural Design (2005) from the University of Navarra and a Bachelor of Architecture (2001) from Ball State University. He teaches design studios, upper-division architectural history seminars and architecture appreciation courses. His research and publications follow two trajectories: the work of architect Richard Neutra and the architecture of twentieth-century Spain; his doctoral dissertation analyzed Neutra’s involvement in Spain in the 1950s and 1960s. His research has appeared in scholarly publications such as Architectural History, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Fabrications and DOCOMOMO Journal, and he has presented his work in the conferences of the Society of Architectural Historians (USA), the Society of Architectural Historians Australia/New Zealand, the European Architectural History Network, the American Historical Association and DOCOMOMO International. Dr. Tippey is also a registered architect (Indiana) and he has designed professional architectural projects in the USA and abroad.

Selections from Dr. Tippey's published works:

• Brett Tippey, “Richard Neutra and Physiological Psychology”, in Arquitectura para la salud y el descanso (1914-1975), edited by Ana Tostoes et al (Pamplona, T6 Ediciones, 2022), 469—479.
• Brett Tippey and Macarena de la Vega de León, guest co-editors, “Opposite/Apposite: Exchanges between Australasia and Iberoamerica”, special themed issue of Fabrications (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, Taylor & Francis), vol. 31, no. 1, 2021.
• Brett Tippey, “Muy antigua y muy moderna: Neutra y Albalat” in Andrés Fernández Albalat arquitecto. Materiales de archivo: Obra coruñesa (1959-1999), ed. Antonio S. Río Vázquez (A Coruña, Spain: Ayuntamiento de A Coruña and Lugami Artes Gráficas, 2021), 61—68.
• Brett Tippey, “Richard Neutra in Spain: Consumerism, Competition and US Air Force Housing” (peer/editor-reviewed), Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (University of California Press, March 2021), vol. 80, no. 1, 48—67.
• “On Lamp Posts and Flagpoles: Beauty and Infrastructure in the Work of Eduardo Torroja” (peer-reviewed), in Los edificios de la Industria: Icono y espacio de progreso para la arquitectura en el arranque de la modernidad, edited by Juan Calatrava et al (Pamplona, T6 Ediciones, 2020), 525—532.
• “Eduardo Torroja, Concrete and Spain’s Indigenous Structural Types” | 35th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia/New Zealand, Wellington | July 2018
• “Allusions and Illusions in Twentieth Century Spanish Architecture” | Quotation, Quotation: What Does History Have in Store for Architecture Today Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia/New Zealand | 2017 | ISBN 978-0-646-98165-9, 731-744
• “Richard Neutra’s Search for the Southland: California, Latin America and Spain” | Architectural History (SAH-Great Britain, Cambridge University Press, 2016) | no. 59, 311—352
• “Genuine Invariants: The Origins of Regional Modernity in Twentieth-century Spain” | Architectural History (SAH-Great Britain, 2013) | no. 56, 299—342