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Diana Martinez is a Ph.D. candidate in architectural history and theory at Columbia University. She holds a B.A. in architecture from UC Berkeley and received a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University. She has practiced as an architect in San Francisco (at Ogrydziak/Prillinger architects), Manila (at Palafox Associates), and New York (with Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis). Martinez has taught design courses at Columbia University and has assisted in teaching history and theory courses at Barnard College and Columbia University. While working at the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, she acted as a curator on the exhibition "Form as Strategy" and as an executive editor on several books including Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture, by Sven-Olov Wallenstein, and Architecture of the Off-Modern, by Svetlana Boym. Martinez’s current research, on the architecture of the Progressive Era in the United States, focuses on the intersections between politics, planning, and design.