Marc J. Neveu graduated with a professional degree in architecture in 1995 and began working at Kallmann, McKinnell, & Wood Architects in Boston. After three years there he traveled to Montreal where he completed a post-professional M.Arch in the History and Theory program at McGill University. Following a few years of professional work back in Boston, Neveu returned to Montreal to pursue studies toward a Ph.D. His dissertation, entitled Architectural Lessons of Carlo Lodoli (1690-1764), was named to the Dean’s Honor List in 2006. It focuses on the origins of architectural education in the Veneto during the eighteenth century. The dissertation discusses Carlo Lodoli’s bi-fold understanding of indole (inherent nature)—with respect to meaning of materials and architectural education—and includes the first ever translation of Lodoli’s fables, Apologhi Immaginati (1787), into English. While working on his dissertation Marc was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for study in Venice and a Collection Research Grant at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Neveu has taught at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and as a Visiting Faculty member at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles. In autumn 2007 Neveu began work in the Department of Architecture at Cal Poly where he teaches history courses and studio. He has lectured and published on issues concerning architectural pedagogy, both within the historical and contemporary context.
Articles
Interview with Alberto Pérez-Gómez (with Saundra Weddle), Journal of Architectural Education (2011)
The Role of History: An Interview with Alberto Pérez-Gómez (with Saundra Weddle), Arkitektur N (2011)
Theses of Thesis, Robert B Church Memorial Lecture Series: University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (2010)
Contributions to Books
The Space of the Mask: From Stage to Ridotto, Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors (2010)
In this chapter, I consider the means of participation within the public sphere of eighteenth-...
Conference Proceedings
Studia | Studio, Proceedings of the 2009 ACSA Annual Meeting: Portland, OR (2009)
This paper sets out to propose that the use of history in a design studio...
Indole of Material and Form: an analysis of le fòrcole, Proceedings of the ACSA 96th Annual Meeting (2008)
Textual Origins of the Professional Architect, Proceedings of the 2008 American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Conference: Portland, OR (2008)
University of M: A Projective Case Study, Proceedings of the 2007 ACSA Annual Conference: Philadelphia, PA (2007)
The Space of the Masque, from Stage to Ridotto, Proceedings of the 2006 Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting: Savannah, GA (2006)
Presentations
Myron Goldsmith: The Development of the Diagonally Braced Tube (with Edmond P. Saliklis), 2010 International Conference on Structures and Architecture (2010)
Myron Goldsmith (1918-96) was a unique figure in the development of tall building design. He...
Slow Time: Reading the Work of Scarpa, Narrative Space Conference: University of Leicester, England (2010)
In the mid 1980s Italo Calvino gave the Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University. In...
la finta pazza di Venexia: Masking, performance and identity in Seventeenth century Venice, 2010 Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting: Venice, Italy (2010)
This paper briefly explores the relationship between the theatricality of Venice and the expression of...
Assessing Interdisciplinary Learning Styles (with Adrienne Greve, Anika Leithner, and Shikha Rahman), 12th CSU Regional Symposium on University Teaching (2009)
The interdependent world we live in is increasingly reflected in the interdisciplinary nature of our...
Thesis for a Thesis, Drury Lecture (2008)
My lecture today will question the nature of a thesis project for an undergraduate architectural...
Dissertation
Architectural Lessons of Carlo Lodoli (1690-1761): Indole of Material and of Self, Architecture (2005)
Carlo Lodoli (1690-1761) exists as a footnote in most major history books of modern architecture....