Don Kunze (b. 1947) is an emeritus professor of architecture & integrative arts. His M.A. and Ph.D. were in cultural geography, his B.Arch. from N. C. State University qualified him to teach architecture studio and theory at Penn State. His dissertation, on the Imagination and Memory of Eternal Places of Giambattista Vico (Penn State University, Geography, 1983) was under the direction of the philosopher Donald Phillip Verene. He also taught architecture theory, landscape architecture, and critical philosophy elsewhere, including the University at Buffalo, LSU, and Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center (Virginia Tech). He directed workshops/seminars at Penn State, Yale, Penn, South Dakota State University, Frankfort University of Applied Sciences, and Carleton University. He is the author of a book, “Thought and Place,” on the philosopher Giambattista Vico and maintains on-line publications dealing with psychoanalysis, virtuality, the uncanny, and critical theory. He is currently working on a novel about an academic-slash-psychotherapist treating an architect who dreams about hysterical houses, but this appears to be not working out. He lives with his wife, Elaine, in Central Pennsylvania.
His current involvement with the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies in Architecture (iPSA) is that of a scribe, webmaster, and advisor. Just as there are almost no architecture scholars interested in Lacan and only a few Lacanians interested in architecture, the plan is to “work the margins” of those who have mutual interests in topics where psychoanalysis makes sense as a way of approaching conditions in architecture, landscape, popular culture, and the arts.
To contact him, send email to kunze767@gmail.com