Meredith Gaglio
Assistant Professor
225-578-6885 | 103 Atkinson Hall
mgagli4@lsu.edu
MDes Harvard University
PhD Columbia University
Meredith Gaglio is an assistant professor of architecture at Louisiana State University. She received a Ph.D. in Architecture from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (2019), a Master in Design Studies from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2010), and Master and Bachelor of Architecture from Tulane University School of Architecture (2005).
Meredith is a historian of modern and contemporary architectural history, with a focus on the ways in which environmental perspectives have affected and have been affected by architectural design. Her work addresses the Appropriate Technology, or AT, Movement in the United States from the late-1960s through the early-1980s. During this period, contrary to familiar narratives of postmodern architectural history, radical, “outlaw” architects made meaningful contributions to the field and, more significantly to her own work, provided a foundation for contemporary sustainable architecture. She is particularly interested in the ways in which AT architects began to collaborate with corporate, state, and federal institutions to promote eco-friendly, sustainable architectural and community design strategies in the wake of the debilitating 1973 oil crisis. Meredith’s work demonstrates how understanding “appropriate” design contributes to a fuller history of American architecture and planning in the 1970s and supplies a philosophical and historical framework through which to examine contemporary sustainable architecture.
This research has gained considerable recognition through grants, speaking engagements, and invitations to publish. She has also received fellowships from the Graham Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and Buell Center for American Architecture to pursue her research and has presented her work at the 2016, 2019, 2023, and 2024 Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conferences, among others. Previously, she co-edited with Caroline Maniaque-Benton the Whole Earth Field Guide (MIT Press, 2016) a volume of countercultural texts. Her article on the McGill Minimum Cost Housing (MCHG) group’s 1970s sulfur housing experiments was recently published in the Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada and her essay, “Counterculture Bureaucracy” will soon be published in the edited volume, Design Radicals: Spaces of Bay Area Counterculture (University of Minnesota Press).
Courses
ARCH 1001: Studio I
ARCH 2007: Architecture History I
ARCH 2002: Studio IV
ARCH 5003: Countercultural Architecture and Urbanism
ARCH 5004: Architecture and the American Landscape