Addison Godel

Addison Godel, Ph.D. is an architectural historian, whose research explores 20^th century modernist architecture as a component in large urban infrastructural systems. He is currently writing a book on infrastructural architecture in New York City from the Progressive Era to the 1980s. In this research project, he looks closely at the architecture of wholesale food distribution, long-distance telephony, and wastewater treatment, in order to illuminate the contested politics and priorities surrounding the designs of these systems and their impacts on the city’s present-day form.


Dr. Godel received his M.Arch from The Ohio State University in 2009, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2021. He joined HCAD’s faculty as an Assistant Professor in fall 2023, following six years as an Assistant Professor in Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture.

Ph.D.; Columbia University in the City of New York; Architecture; 2021

M.Arch.; Ohio State University-Main Campus; ; 2009

B.A.; University of Georgia; Women’s Studies and Political Science; 2004

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Addison McMillan Godel. "From 'Terrestrial Paradise' to 'Dreary Waste': Race and the Chinese Garden in European Eyes." In Irene Cheng, Charles Davis, and Mabel Wilson, eds., "Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present," pp. 79-95. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020.

Evan Chakroff, Addison McMillan Godel, Jacqueline Gargus. "China: Architectural Guide." 400 pp. DOM Publishers, 2015. ISBN 9783869223483.

Addison McMillan Godel. 2015. "When Windows Were Wires: The Projection of Network Invulnerability and the Architecture of the AT&T Long Lines." Grey Room, no. 61, pp. 34-65.