The Berlage

Joy Knoblauch is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan, where she teaches the  history and theory of architecture as an exploration of architecture’s engagement with politics and science. Her first book, entitled The Architecture of Good Behavior: Psychology and Modern Institutional Design in Postwar America, connects psyche and form to examine a growing tendency to govern behavior through the environment. Her current research is a history of ergonomics that expands this critique of functional theories of psyche to include military and capitalist sites of engagement including open office plans and digital interfaces.