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writing

The Line in Midwest USA: Proposing the Linear Spatial Device for Studies of Region
Begley, Mary Dahlman. "The Line in Midwest USA: Proposing the Linear Spatial Device for Studies of Region." Middle West Review 11, no. 1 (2024): 127-140.
2024 research for DOCOMOMO US/MN on Saarinen's design for IBM Rochester
Commissioned research for DOCOMOMO US/MN on Saarinen's design for IBM Rochester. October 2024.
2021 lecture for DOCOMOMO US/MN on Cabin Culture
Public lecture for DOCOMOMO US/MN research "Cabin Culture." October 2021.
2019 lecture with Interesting Tactics for Goethe in the Skyways, published 2020 Spector Books
photo documentation of Wadsworth Stable, built 1730, in Connecticut, USA
Society of Architectural Historians, Charles E. Peterson fellowship research, 2019. Published 2022. Eight articles about buildings constructed prior to 1840.
Design Quarterly cover, 1971, depicting Walker Art Center entrance in Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis Modernism: Walker Art Center. Research for DOCOMOMO US/MN, published 2021.
Idea House II, 1943, photographed for a popular magazine
Minneapolis Modernism: Idea Houses. Research for DOCOMOMO US/MN, published 2020.
Screenshot of article for Tone Madison
Screenshot of article for X-Commons
Link to a zine made with WIASO, edited and published 2019
Screenshot of an article for Tone Madison

projects

maps of THE LINE in midwest USA
Atlas of Remoteness: Midwest USA is out now!

media on Atlas of Remoteness: Midwest USA
Read "Going off the Jeffersonian Grid" by Anjulie Rao to learn more about Atlas of Remoteness: Midwest USA and the project of linear research.

designs for ADUs
historic research informed designs for Accessory Dwelling Units in Minneapolis first ring suburbs
Zine made by MDB for Habitability Project
Habitability Project, a 2019 collaboration with Boris Oicherman (Weisman Art Museum), Peng Wu, Neal White, and Interesting Tactics
Website for M.Arch thesis project
M.Arch thesis project "Planetary Chronology" with Meg Lundquist
Theoretical essay using GIS and ESRI storymap
Theoretical essay "Observing Territory" using GIS and ESRI storymap
Research image for Archive Amazonia project
2019 studio project for critic Vahan Misakyan, collaboration with Meg Lundquist and Hana Bushyhead
Image for Sun Valley Homes project
2019 studio project for critic Christine Albertsson
Gif of Issue 4 of Greige Room
GREIGE ROOM: an architectural theory zine edited and written by MDB
Image from SOUP SUCKS
Invitation to Marytopia
MARYTOPIA: forthcoming utopia, first theorized 2018

MDS


BIO:

Architectural worker in the American Midwest. Professional experience in architecture includes researching, writing, designing, teaching. Interest in interdisciplinary collaborations, mapping, utopia, critical social and cultural history, and spatial research.


@mary_0nline on instagram


CURRENTLY:

✿ collaborating with Instutite for Linear Research. LINK
✿ working at WJW Architects in Chicago.
✿ part-time faculty in Architecture department at School of the Art Institute in Chicago (SAIC).



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M.Arch 2020, University of Minnesota, School of Architecture.
B.Arts 2014, Carleton College (American Studies).
B. 1992, Omaha, NE.