Michael Speaks

Michael Speaks is Dean of the College of Design and Professor of Architecture at the University of Kentucky. Former Director of the Graduate Program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, Speaks has also taught in the graphic design department at the Yale School of Art, and in the architecture schools at Harvard University, Columbia University, The University of Michigan, UCLA, Art Center College of Design, and the Berlage Institute and TU Delft, in the Netherlands. Speaks is a founding editor of the cultural journal Polygraph, and is former Senior editor at Any in New York, where he also edited the book series, “Writing Architecture,” published by MIT Press. In addition, Speaks served for many years on the editorial advisory board of a+u and as a contributing editor for Architectural Record.