Claire Zimmerman is the author of Albert Kahn Inc.: Architecture, Labor, and Industry (MIT Press, 2024), the co-editor of Detroit-Moscow-Detroit: An Architecture for Industrialization (with Jean-Louis Cohen and Christina Crawford, MIT Press, 2023), and the co-editor of Architecture against Democracy: Histories of the Nationalist International (with Reinhold Martin, Minnesota 2024). A special journal number, The Costs of Architecture, focused on building costs and their importance in histories of the built environment (Grey Room 71 [2018], co-edited with L. Allais and Z. Çelik Alexander). Other recent work includes “Migration, Briefly Arrested,” in the Canadian Centre for Architecture web journal, “The Anti-Photograph,” in Modern Management Methods (ed. C. Blanchfield and F. Lotfi-Jam for Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2019), and “Built Environment” in The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media (A. Byrd and E. Siegel). Other books include Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), Neo-avant-garde and Postmodern: Postwar Architecture in Britain and Beyond (co-edited with Mark Crinson, Yale Studies in British Art, 2010), and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: The Structure of Space (Taschen, 2006). Zimmerman began teaching at the University of Toronto in 2023. She is currently working collaboratively on projects exploring architecture and property, architectural history and cost, and industrial architecture. She has helped conserve and will publish the forty-year scrapbook of Alison Smithson (with Tate Britain).
