David Rifkind
B.Arch., Boston Architectural Center, 1992 Lecturer David Rifkind’s research focuses on relationships between architecture, art and politics, with particular emphasis on modern architecture in Fascist Italy. His dissertation, «Quadrante» and the Politicization of Architectural Discourse in Fascist Italy, deals with the circle of architects, artists, engineers, critics and patrons which formed around the seminal journal, Quadrante (1933-1936). He is a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University, where he has also taught graduate seminars on Italian architecture and undergraduate courses in art history. Mr. Rifkind has taught architectural history and theory courses at the Parsons School of Design and the New York Institute of Technology, and has taught design history at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. He maintains an architectural design practice with his wife, Holly Zickler, and has served as a design critic at a number of schools. He teaches survey lectures and graduate seminars in the Department of Architectural History, including ARH 102: Renaissance to Modern, ARH 203: History of Modern Architecture, ARH 950: Architecture & Design in 20th Century Italy and ARH 954: The Cultural Production of Architecture. Mr. Rifkind is also co-editor of the Newsletter of the Society of Architectural Historians.
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