About
Joseph M. Watson is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Kansas State University. His work on late 19th and early 20th century architecture and urbanism in the United States has appeared in the Avery Review, Journal of Architectural Education, and Journal of Urban History, among other venues. He is a 2020-21 Tyson Scholar of American Art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of Art. Education
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2018
M.A., Union Theological Seminary, 2012
B.Arch., University of Tennessee, 2008 Publications
Refereed Articles
“‘Organization for Cooperation’: The Varieties and Vagaries of Labor at Rockefeller Center,”
Work, theme issue of the
Journal of Architectural Education 72, no. 3 (Fall 2019): 156–167
“The Suburbanity of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City,”
Journal of Urban History 45, no. 5 (September 2019): 1006–1029
“Topographies of the Future: Urban and Suburban Visions in Edward Bellamy’s Utopian Fiction,”
Planning Perspectives 32, no. 4 (Fall 2017): 639–49
“Aid, Capital, and the Humanitarian Trap,”
Thresholds 40 (2012): 238–44
Review Essays
Review of Design Earth (Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy),
Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment (2018),
Journal of Architectural Education Online, May 15, 2020,
http://www.jaeonline.org/articles/review/geostories#/
“Clearance, Choreography, and Community Action: Reconsiderations of Postwar America,” review of Francesca Ammon,
Bulldozer (2016); Alison Hirsch,
City Choreographer (2014); Mark Krasovic,
The Newark Frontier (2016); Julia Rabig,
The Fixers (2016);
Journal of Urban History 46, no. 1 (January 2020): 199–206
“The Antinomies of Usonia: Neil Levine’s The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright,”
The Avery Review 25 (September 2017): averyreview.com/issues/25/the-antinomies-of-usonia
Upcoming Talks and Conferences
“At the Heart of Soconyland: The Metropolitan Ambitions of the Standard Oil Company,” Urban History Association 10th Biennial Conference, Detroit, MI, October 2021 Memberships
Society for American City and Regional Planning History, Society of Architectural Historians, Urban History Association
