Eric Paul Mumford, PhD is the Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture at Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St Louis, and an architect. His recent books include the recent exhibition catalogue, Design Agendas: modern architecture in St Louis, 1930s-1970s (Mildred Lane Kemper Museum of Art, St Louis, 2024), for the Kemper Art Museum exhibition he co-curated in fall 2024. He is also well-known internationally as the author of The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960 (MIT Press, 2000), the only book length history of the International Congresses for Modern Architecture. He is also the author of Designing the Modern City: urbanism since 1850. (Yale University Press, 2018), a widely read textbook, and Defining urban design: CIAM Architects and the formation of a discipline, 1937-69 (Yale University Press, 2009), as well as other works.
Mumford is a Director of the Society of Architectural Historians, a member of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Humanity’s Urban Future Committee (2023-28). He was a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute in 2023 and a Fulbright Specialist visiting professor in urban planning at the Faculty of Architecture, PUCP, Lima, Peru in 2013.
