Lawrence Chua is a historian of the global modern built environment with an emphasis on Asian architecture and urban culture. He is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture, Syracuse University and was most recently a fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies in Leiden and a Marie S. Curie Junior Fellow of the European Union at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany. He has taught courses on the history and theory of architecture and urbanism as well as design studio courses at Hamilton College, New York University, and Chulalongkorn University. His writing has appeared in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, the Journal of Urban History, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, and Senses and Society. He currently serves on the editorial board of Architectural Histories, the peer-reviewed journal of the European Architectural History Network. He received his Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Urban Development from Cornell University in 2012. Chua is also the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants from Social Science Research Council, the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, the Asian Cultural Council, MacDowell, and more.
Lawrence Chua
Studios
Monday Music
Lawrence Chua worked in the Monday Music studio.
Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…