David Gissen works at the intersection of architecture, history, and experimental design. He is Professor of Architecture and Urban History at the Parsons School of Design and the New School University. He was Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architecture at Yale University (2019 – 2020); University Professor (2019-20) at the Institute for Art and Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria; and Professor at the California College of the Arts (2007-19).

In addition to the above, he has been appointed Visiting Professor of Historic Preservation at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation; Visiting Professor of Architecture History in the PhD. program in the History, Theory, & Criticism of Architecture and Art (HTC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Curator of Architecture and Design, The National Building Museum, Washington, DC. He lectures and teaches internationally in the areas of architecture, interior, urban, and landscape history, theory, design, and preservation.

David is the author of several books and  essays. His books include a materialist study of architecture and the modern urban environment, Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments (Princeton Architecture Press, 2009) and a history of New York City told through the design of the city’s air, Manhattan Atmospheres (University of Minnesota Press, 2014). His historic reconstructions, projects, and preservationist works have been exhibited in the Venice Biennale (2016, 2021), Canadian Centre for Architecture, Yale University Architecture Galleries, and the Museum of the City of New York. His writings, projects, current news, & email can be found through the following links: