In 2015 he was appointed Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in the Department of Media and Communication looking at spatial alterity through non-textual qualitative research methods. His fellowship at the University of the Philippines Diliman developed a theory everyday magical urbanism. He has previously held cross-appointments in Art History, Film Studies, and International Studies.įollowing his Visiting Teacher role at the Architectural Association in London, his research shifted to uncanny network theory and predatory landscapes - leading to a recent research fellowship at Harvard University's Dumbarton Oaks. Thomas Mical has previously taught architectural design, modern architectural history, thesis research, and design theory at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic, the University of Florida, Georgia Institute of Technology, the Technical University of Vienna, the University of Chicago, and Carleton University. Architectural Review, Pidgin, CLOG, MONU, IAAC Bits), and book projects are listed on site.
The resultant keynotes, architectural essays (e.g. His long-term research includes projects on transparency and blurring conditions of modern and late modern spaces, investigations of the spatial conditions of alterity, and forms of generative contingencies. at Harvard GSD with a thesis on "Blade Runner Urbanism for Cyber-City Tokyo", and his doctorate in architectural theory at Georgia Tech and Emory, which examined the non-linear temporality of Nietzsche‘s Eternal Recurrence in Georgio de Chirico‘s representations of 'Metaphysical' Urbanism. These are analyzed primarily through media-philosophy and critical theory methodologies, to identify visible and invisible forces shaping species of spaces. Within everyday late modern (hypermodern) life there are architectural conditions which should be parsed for indications of the presence of other systems and forces at play. The frequent research methodology pursues an X-files like investigation of spatial curiosities. His agenda is to further understand the formation and transitions of subtle differences in spaces (conceived, perceived, lived). His research traverses strange beauty and hidden order across Surrealism, Psychogeography, and Schizoanalysis - in techniques of landscapes, subjectivities, chronotopes, and diagrammatics - each reconsidered as processes and tactics. Thomas Mical is Professor of Architectural Theory and Superhumanities.
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