PhD Candidate, History and Theory of Architecture, Princeton SoA
MA History and Theory of Architecture, Princeton University
MDes History and Philosophy of Design and Media, Harvard University
BA Art and Visual History / Cultural Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (and Goldsmiths, University of London)
Clemens Finkelstein is a Ph.D. candidate in the History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University. He received a B.A. in Art History and Cultural Studies from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, an M.Des. in the History and Philosophy of Design from Harvard University, and an M.A. in the History and Theory of Architecture from Princeton University. His doctoral research engages the built environment at the junction of Art and Architectural History with the History of Science and Technology. His work has been supported by, the History of Science Society and the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism & the Humanities among others. He has worked extensively as an educator, editor, and curator—formerly serving as curator-at-large at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles. His articles and reviews have appeared in several journals and edited volumes, including Iconology of Abstraction: The Language of Non-Figurative Images (Routledge, 2020), the Journal of Design History, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and Technology & Culture. A Fulbright Scholar from Germany, he has also received scholarships and a Commendation for Outstanding Achievement from Harvard University (2015-2017), Princeton University’s Lowell M. Palmer Fellowship (2018-2019), is Planetary Scholar for Planetary Materials at the Panel on Planetary Thinking of the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany (Summer 2022), Junior Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies "Imaginaria of Force" at the Universität Hamburg, Germany (2022-2023), and Berlin Program Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (2023-2024).
