Alexander Luckmann

Alexander Luckmann is an architectural historian and writer based in Santa Barbara and New Orleans. He studies modern and contemporary architecture in Germany and the United States, with a focus on how architecture and society navigate between modernity and tradition, particularly among religious groups. 

Alexander is currently a PhD candidate in the History of Art and Architecture department at UC Santa Barbara. His writing has appeared  in platforms including Slate, Art in Translation, react/review, New York Review of Architecture, and The Architect's Newspaper. He also translates texts on architecture and culture from German.

Before starting grad school, Alexander worked as a landscape designer at Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates in Brooklyn. He also helped organize the Archtober festival at the Center for Architecture, and served as Curatorial Intern for the 2018 exhibition "The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism" at SFMOMA. He received a BA in Art History from Vassar College and an MA in the History of Art and Architecture from UC Santa Barbara.