Aaron Cayer is a historian, writer, and professor of architecture based in Los Angeles, California. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona, where his teaching, research, and service work focus on architecture firms, labor, and urban political-economy. He received his Ph.D. in Architecture History from UCLA as well as undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture from Norwich University in Vermont. Prior to Cal Poly, he was an Assistant Professor of Architecture History at the University of New Mexico, from 2018-2023. He is the recipient of several international research awards, prizes, and fellowships, including the Rome Prize by the American Academy in Rome in 2023, the Barbara Thom Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Huntington Library in California in 2020; the Kristine Fallon Prize by the International Archive of Women in Architecture in 2022; and he was named to Architecture League of New York’s “American Roundtable” in 2020. His first book, Incorporating Architects: How American Architecture Became a Practice of Empire, focuses on the rise of corporate architecture firms, such as AECOM, and traces their impact on professions and global political economies. It will be published by UC Press in May of 2025. His research about architecture firms and architectural education has appeared in the Journal of Architectural Education, the Journal of Urban History, Places, Thresholds, Architectural Research Quarterly, Ardeth, Log, ARQ (Chile), and in several edited volumes. Outside of the academy, he serves on the Board of Directors of The Architecture Lobby as well as on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architectural Education.
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