Author Jan Frohburg

Jan Frohburg

Jan Frohburg studied architecture in Weimar, London, Zurich and Chicago and graduated from the Bauhaus University Weimar in 1998. After practicing architecture for three years, free-lance and with Gildehaus.Reich architects, he returned to teach at the Bauhaus University before taking a position as visiting lecturer at Virginia Tech’s Washington Alexandria Architecture Center in 2006. Since 2007, he has lectured in the School of Architecture, University of Limerick. His research interests evolve around community-centred planning and self-build projects as well as the spatial expression of Modernity, focusing on the spatial concept characteristic to the works of Mies van der Rohe.

Review: Michael J. Lewis, City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning

Jan Frohburg

Issue 8 2018-19, Reviews

Lewis, Michael J. City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning. Princeton UP, 2016. There are rare instances when historical scholarship gains relevance in the immediate present. Michael Lewis’ book... Read More...

“It was only the darkened house that could contain her”: Containing Forms in The Scarlet Letter

“Seeming Strangeness”: Mina Loy’s Poetics of Disruption and Julia Kristeva’s Semiotic/Symbolic Model

Cold Reality: Revisions of War in John Knowles’ ‘Phineas’ and A Separate Peace

The State Department’s Northern Ireland Special Envoys and the redemption of the Good Friday Agreement

“a settled place”: Reproductive Performance in the Liberties and The Liberties

‘The Ethics of Quantum Colonialism’: Navigating American Racial Anxiety in N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became

“‘Normal People’ Indeed!”: Anne Tyler, Sally Rooney, and the Narrative of Youthful Quirk

Review: Wills, Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture

Review: Brian Yothers, Melville’s Mirrors: Literary Criticism and America’s Most Elusive Author

Review: Chavis, The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State

Review: Warren Eugene Milteer, Jr. Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South

Review: Baumgartner, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

Review: Katherine Manthorne, Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex.

Review: Austenfeld, ed., Robert Lowell in a New Century

The IAAS's Americanista: An Interview with Catherine Gander (IAAS Chair)

From Mitchelstown to Michigan: Kevin Roche’s Formative Years

Review: Michael J. Lewis, City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning