Jean-Francois Lejeune

Teaching Area:

Architectural Design; Urban Design; Urban History; History

Education:

Diploma in Architecture: Universite de Liege, Belgium, 1968-1973
Doctorate candidate Universite de Paris VIII, 2004

Teaching and Administrative Experience:

Director, Graduate Studies, 2009-present
University of Miami School of Architecture; Associate Professor, 1996-2004
University of Miami School of Architecture, Professor

Recent Honors:

Provost’s Award for Scholarly Activity, 2004
Florida APA 2002 Awards for Planning Excellence (Team leader for the University of Miami Coral Gables charrette)
American Institute of Architects, Miami Chapter (Unbuilt project for Area Entertainment Center; with Allan Shulman Architects), 2000

Publications:

Entries “Celebration Florida” & “Erich Mendelsohn’s Universum Cinema” in Encylopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, Routledge, London, 2003

“Schinkel’s Projects for Urban Houses: the Sreet and the City between the Individual and the Collective,” Schinkel Triennal II, Stuttgart, Axel Menges, Winter 2004

Editor, Cruelty and Utopia: Cities and Landscapes of Latin America, New York, Princeton Architectural Press, Fall 2004

Editor, Cruaute et utopie: villes et paysages d’Amerique latine, Brussels, CIVA, 2003

“Reves d’un ordre: Utopie, cruaute et modernite,” Cruaute et utopie: villes et paysages d’Amerique latine, Brussels, CIVA, 2003; “Dreams of an Order: Utopia, sCruelty, and Modernity,”Cruelty and Utopia: Cities and Landscapes of Latin America, New York, Princeton Architectural Press, Fall 2004 (expected)

Research contributor to Andres Duany & Robert Alminana, The New Civic Art, New York, Rizzoli, 2003

Author (with Allan Shulman), The Making of Miami Beach 1933-1942: The Architecture of Lawrence Murray Dixon, New York, Rizzoli, 2001

Author (with Allan Shulman & Jose Gelabert-Navia), Miami Beach-Ocean Drive, Pamplona, Colegio de Arquitectos del Pais Vasco, 2000

“The Rosenthal Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati: Zaha Hadid’s Art-Energy Machine,” Architektur Aktuell, Vienna, September 2003

“The Doxiadis Plan for Miami, 1966-68: A Global Architect Goes Local,” Architecture and Urbanism in Latin America (AULA 3), 2002

“The Living Room or the Modern Marvelous,” Architektur Aktuell, Vienna, April 2002

“North-South: Rationalism and Tradition in the New Towns of the Reconstruction in Spain,” Proceedings ACSA International Conference Istanbul 2001 “Oriental-Occidental, Washington, ACSA, 2002

“I have been twenty-three years old too….” Thomas Spain: Drawings of Rome, Coral Gables, University of Miami, 2002

“Schinkel and Lenne in Berlin: From the Biedermeier Flaneur to Beuth’s Grosstadt,” Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Aspects of His Works, Stuttgart, Axel Menges, 2001

“Le New Urbanism ou le temps retrouve,” Dynamic City, Maurice Culot, ed., Milano, Skira, 2000

“Die Wurzeln des New Urbanism,” Stadtbauwelt, 12/00, Berlin

Conferences and Lectures: (selection)

Werner Hegemann, New Civic Art, and Transatlantic Exchanges, Organizer, in collaboration with Chuck Bohl, October 2-4, 2002

University of Miami/Knight Program in Community Design, New York Perspectives with University of Miami AIAS, April 27, 2002

Miami Modernism 1950s (with Allan Shulman)University of Maryland, March 8, 2004

North-South: Guidonia citta aerofuturista, Columbia University, Architectural History Department, January 21, 2003

Dynamic City: the Sources of the New Urbanism, Politecnico di Bari, September 16, 2002

Exhibitions:

The Florida Home: Modern Living 1945-65, Curator with Allan Shulman

Historic Museum of South Florida, Cruaute et utopie: villes et paysages d’Amerique latine

Curator for the CIVA, Centre international pour la ville, l’architecture, et le paysage

Service:

School of Architecture Faculty Search Committee, Chair, 2005-2007 Building Committee 2001-2004 Digital Image Committee 2004-2006 Curriculum Committee 2005-2006 Library & Archive Committee,2001-present Visiting Critics & Speakers Committee, 2005-2006 Curriculum Committee, 2005-2006 Knight Program Steering Committee, 2004 – 2006 Digital Image Committee
University of Miami, Faculty Senate, 2002-2004
Miami Beach Single Family Residential Preservation Board City of Miami Beach, 2003-2004 Planning Board City of Miami Beach, 2000-2004 General Obligation Bond Advisory Committee of Miami Beach, 2003-2004