B. Jack Hanly

B. Jack Hanly is a PhD candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism group at MIT. His dissertation looks at the rise of the American environmental movement against the transformation of architectural practice in the 1960s and 70s. It argues that architects were increasingly called upon to serve as mediators between public activists and private developers, while styling themselves as a new kind of “environmental professional” combining ecology, systems thinking, and corporate consulting. Jack’s previous work has focused on the architecture and urbanism of the oil industry around the period of the 1973 OPEC embargo, the history of soil sciences in processes of urbanization, and the utility of plant life in Cold War uranium mining. He has published and forthcoming peer-reviewed papers in the Journal of Architectural Education, Perspecta, Histories of Postwar Architecture, and the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Jack holds a Master of Environmental Design from the Yale School of Architecture (2019) and a BA in Environmental and Urban Studies from Bard College (2016).