91猫先生

Katherine Kaford received her Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include the development of the modern home in post-war America, the history of domesticity, the changing role of women in domestic space, material culture, practices of everyday life, the interior, collecting, consumption and display. Before coming to UCSB, Katherine earned her B.A. at Wellesley College in the fields of Architecture and French Cultural Studies, studied Architectural Design at MIT and studied Renaissance Architecture and Urban Planning in Florence with Syracuse University.

The History of Architecture: Ancient - Renaissance
The History of Architecture: Renaissance - Contemporary
The History of Art: Ancient to Renaissance
The History of Art: Renaissance - Contemporary
History of Modern Art
Art Appreciation
Southern Californian Modernism
History of Architecture and Urbanism Abroad
History of Contemporary Art
Women in the Arts

Graduate Seminars:
Historic Preservation
American Dream: Suburbia and Home

20th century modernist architecture, domesticity and the interior, collecting, display and consumption

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
University of California, Santa Barbara

Articles and Essays:

鈥淜atherine Morrow Ford: Designs for Living,鈥� in Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture, ed. Anna Sokolina, UK: Routledge (forthcoming, 2021)

鈥淟ois Davidson Gottlieb: 鈥楢 Woman Fellow鈥�,鈥� in Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture, ed. Anna Sokolina, UK: Routledge (forthcoming, 2021)

鈥淓ames House/Case Study House #8,鈥� in Buildings of California, ed. Emily Bills, and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press (2017)

鈥淪tahl House/Case Study House #22,鈥� in Buildings of California, ed. Emily Bills, and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press (2017)

鈥淢iles C. Bates House, Palm Desert,鈥� in Walter S. White: Inventions in Mid-Century Architecture, by Volker M. Welter, Santa Barbara, CA: Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara (2015)

鈥淭he Carefree Californian: 鈥楥liff May Homes,鈥� 1952-1958,鈥� in Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch. New York: Rizzoli (2012)

CONFERENCE PAPERS and INVITED LECTURES

鈥淎esthetical Insights to Leadership: Architecture, Art, Literature, and Music,鈥� Dr. Paul and Annie Kienel Leadership Institute, 91猫先生, February, 2019

鈥淪pectacle and Display: Kitchen Design in Glass Houses,鈥� PCA, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2018

鈥淔rom California Style to Lifestyle: Cliff May and the Ranch House,鈥� SAH, Pasadena, California, April 2016

鈥淐liff May and the California Home,鈥� Curator鈥檚 Walk, 91猫先生 Gallery, Riverside, California, June 2015

鈥淧lush to Glass and Other Anti-Dust Catchers,鈥� SECAC, Sarasota, Florida, November 2014

鈥淜atherine Morrow Ford: Finding the Feminine in Modern Architecture,鈥� SECAC, Greensboro, North Carolina, October 2013

鈥淐alifornia鈥檚 Architectural Frontier 1: Concept, Greek and Gothic Revival Buildings,鈥� Revival Styles in Southern Californian Architecture, Spring 2013

鈥淚con and Anonymity: What is Californian Architectural History?鈥� discussion chair, UC Santa Barbara, May 2012

First Lutheran, Lake Elsinore

Girl Scout Troop Leader

Reading
Cooking
Playing with my children
Waterskiing
Gardening

Proverbs 31:10-31 (A Wife of Noble Character)