Salvatore Dellaria

Visiting Assistant Professor

Education

• Ph.D. in History of Architecture and Urban Development, Cornell University, 2023
• M.A. in History of Architecture and Urban Development, Cornell University, 2017
• M.A. in Design Criticism, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2013
• B.A. in Urban and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2013

Research Interests

Salvatore Dellaria is an architectural historian specializing in modern and post-modern architecture’s interactions with the racial-capitalist state at contested sites. These range from public monuments and memorials to state-sponsored housing to urban planning initiatives. His most recent work addresses the architecture of the welfare state in postwar Britain, including its New Town planning schemes and modernist house-building programs.
Courses Taught

• ARTH105: Introduction to Architecture
• ARTH335: History of American Architecture
• ARTH395: Modern Architecture

Selected Publications

• “A New Town and a Numbers Game: Runcorn, Merseyside, and Liverpool.” Planning Perspectives: vo.37 no. 2 (2022).
• “‘The Wrong Building, in the Wrong Place, at the Wrong Time’: Marcel Breuer and the Grand Central Tower Controversy, 1967–1969.” ARTMargins: vo.7 no.1 (2018).