Rick - Miller

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Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

C.Phil, 2008, UCLA;
M.Arch, 1997, SCI-Arc;
B.A, 1992, Connecticut College

SUBFIELDS

nomadic/sedentary, domestic architecture, (sub)urban migration, mobile landscape, built culture, Inner Asia

RESEARCH

The ger-districts, named for the traditional felt tents that still dominate the domestic landscape surrounding Ulaanbaatar, extend urban space yet retain connections to Mongolian pastoralism. How people build vernacular architecture to respond to both a settled environment and a nomadic heritage forms the basis of my research.

ADVISORS

Nominated committee:
Michael Curry (chair) - mobility, place
Lisa Kim Davis - urban housing, East Asia, methodology
John Agnew - geography
Nancy Levine (anthropology) - Inner Asia, nomadism, methodology

and always:
Denis Cosgrove - landscape, the visual image