Jean Francois Lejeune
 

Title:                           Professor
Office Location:        Bldg. 48E, Room 323
Office Phone:             305-284-5258
E-mail Address          flejeune@miami.edu

Teaching Area:
Architectural Design; Urban Design; Urban History; History

Education:
Diploma in Architecture: Université de Liège, Belgium, 1968-73
Doctorate candidate Université de Paris VIII, 2004

Teaching and Administrative Experience:
University of Miami School of Architecture; Associate Professor, 1996-2004
University of Miami School of Architecture, Professor

Recent Honors:
Provost’s Award for Scholarly Activity, 2004
Florida APA 2002 Awards for Planning Excellence (Team leader for the University of Miami Coral Gables charrette)
American Institute of Architects, Miami Chapter (Unbuilt project for Area Entertainment Center; with Allan Shulman Architects), 2000

Publications:
Entries “Celebration Florida” & “Erich Mendelsohn’s Universum Cinema” in Encylopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, Routledge, London, 2003
“Schinkel’s Projects for Urban Houses: the Sreet and the City between the Individual and the Collective,” Schinkel Triennal II, Stuttgart, Axel Menges, Winter 2004
Editor, Cruelty and Utopia: Cities and Landscapes of Latin America, New York, Princeton Architectural Press, Fall 2004
Editor, Cruauté et utopie: villes et paysages d’Amérique latine, Brussels, CIVA, 2003
“Rêves d’un ordre: Utopie, cruauté et modernité,” Cruauté et utopie: villes et paysages d’Amérique latine, Brussels, CIVA, 2003; “Dreams of an Order: Utopia, Cruelty, and Modernity,”Cruelty and Utopia: Cities and Landscapes of Latin America, New York, Princeton Architectural Press, Fall 2004 (expected)
Research contributor to Andres Duany & Robert Alminana, The New Civic Art, New York, Rizzoli, 2003
Author (with Allan Shulman), The Making of Miami Beach 1933-1942: The Architecture of Lawrence Murray Dixon, New York, Rizzoli, 2001
Author (with Allan Shulman & Jose Gelabert-Navia), Miami Beach-Ocean Drive, Pamplona, Colegio de Arquitectos del País Vasco, 2000
“The Rosenthal Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati: Zaha Hadid’s Art-Energy Machine,” Architektur Aktuell, Vienna, September 2003
“The Doxiadis Plan for Miami, 1966-68: A Global Architect Goes Local,” Architecture and Urbanism in Latin America (AULA 3), 2002
“The Living Room or the Modern Marvelous,” Architektur Aktuell, Vienna, April 2002
“North-South: Rationalism and Tradition in the New Towns of the Reconstruction in Spain,” Proceedings ACSA International Conference Istanbul 2001 “Oriental-Occidental, Washington, ACSA, 2002
“I have been twenty-three years old too….” Thomas Spain: Drawings of Rome, Coral Gables, University of Miami, 2002
“Schinkel and Lenné in Berlin: From the Biedermeier Flâneur to Beuth’s Großstadt,” Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Aspects of His Works, Stuttgart, Axel Menges, 2001
“Le New Urbanism ou le temps retrouvé,” Dynamic City, Maurice Culot, ed., Milano, Skira, 2000
“Die Wurzeln des New Urbanism,” Stadtbauwelt, 12/00, Berlin

CONFERENCES, & LECTURES (selection)
Werner Hegemann, New Civic Art, and Transatlantic Exchanges, Organizer, in collaboration with Chuck Bohl, Oct. 2-4, 2002
University of Miami/Knight Program in Community Design, New York Perspectives with University of Miami AIAS, April 27, 2002
Miami Modernism 1950s (with Allan Shulman)University of Maryland, March 8, 2004
North-South: Guidonia città aerofuturista, Columbia University, Architectural History Department, Jan. 21, 2003
Dynamic City: the Sources of the New Urbanism, Politecnico di Bari, September 16, 2002

EXHIBITIONS         
The Florida Home: Modern Living 1945-65, Curator with Allan Shulman
Historic Museum of South Florida,Cruauté et utopie: villes et paysages d’Amérique latine
Curator for the CIVA, Centre international pour la ville, l’architecture, et le paysage,

Service:
School of Architecture
   Faculty Search Committee, Chair, 2005-2007
   Building Committee 2001-2004
   Digital Image Committee 2004-2006
   Curriculum Committee2005-2006
   Library & Archive Committee,2001-present
   Visiting Critics & Speakers Committee, 2005-2006
   Curriculum Committee, 2005-2006
   Knight Program Steering  Committee, 2004 - 2006
   Digitial Image Committee
University of Miami,
   Faculty Senate, 2002-2004
Miami Beach
   Single Family Residential Preservation Board City of Miami Beach, 2003-2004
   Planning Board City of Miami Beach, 2000-2004
   General Obligation Bond Advisory Committee of Miami Beach, 2003-2004