Anna Goodman, Architectural and Urban Historian

Anna Goodman is an architectural historian and design educator teaching urban and architectural history, design research, and design studios at Portland State University’s School of Architecture. She writes histories focused on the politics of architectural education, self-help, and participatory methods in architecture and humanitarian design.

I spent an afternoon with @afsc_org relief records at @haverfordedu Quaker & Special Collections! These photos and typed reports document something architectural historians don’t usually look at: the improvised housing, workshops, and comm
Something I've been thinking about lately while wrapping up my Citizen Architects book and launching a new project: Some of the small discoveries you make early in your career as a researcher start you on a trajectory that you would never expect. W
Re-introducing myself! Hi! I’m Anna Goodman, an architectural historian and design educator teaching at Portland State University’s School of Architecture. My work spans urban and architectural history, design research, and studio-based
Adaptive reuse at the @city.of.possibility. Taking an abandoned mall/office building and imagining a more just future. Designed and built by students of the brilliant @andrew_santa_lucia
It's been a great week of Portlanders thinking about the future of the city with the opening of the @city.of.possibility exhibit for which my @psuarchitecture colleague Juan Manuel Heredia and I were part of the Curatorial Advisory committee. Congrat
I'm so impressed by my research advisee, M.Arch student Tatjana Babic, on the Konak House. As a recipient of the @psuarchitecture Rudolph Barton Travel Scholarship, she traveled through Turkey, Serbia and France, tracing the evolution of this fascina
It's a fun ritual to walk through downtown Portland with my @psuarchitecture students looking at late 19th-century buildings inspired by Gothic and Classical precedents. We talk about whether our Northern hearts should be inspired by Ruskin or Rome (
Excited to see my book chapter out in Vera Simone Bader's DesignBuild in Postcolonial Contexts: A Critical Interrogation (@stostiftung, Berlin).
Hazel was living her best life #pdxlightfest Silent Disco and getting painted into a glow-in-the-dark group portrait by media artist Kendall Cottrell.