Zachariah A Michielli
Assistant Teaching Professor
Co-Director of Graduate Programs
Ball State College of Architecture and Planning
Zach is graduate of the PhD Program in Architecture History and Theory at Yale University. His doctoral work was advised by Alan Plattus, Caleb Smith, and Henry Sussman. During his time at Yale, Zach worked with and learned from Mario Carpo, Esther da Costa Meyer, Cynthia Davidson, Keller Easterling, Peter Eisenman, Shane Frederick, Kurt Forster, Karsten Harries, Martin Hägglund, Joan Ockman, Sun-Joo Shin, Henry Sussman, and Tony Vidler.
He holds a master's degree in architecture from The Southern California Institute of Architecture where his thesis "Random Walk" was advised by Todd Gannon. Zach also holds a master's degree in education from Michigan State University and a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from Swarthmore College where he conducted research with Mike Brown in the SSX plasma physics lab. After graduating, he continued to pursue physics research through the University of California at Berkeley under the guidance of the late Stuart Freedman at the KamLAND facility in Mozumi, Japan. He has lived in Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Haven, Toyama, Tokyo, Milan, and Siena.
Supervisors: Alan Plattus, Henry Sussman, Caleb Smith, and Olon Dotson
Phone: +1-765-285-5073
Address: 2000 W. University Ave
AB 402
Muncie IN 47306
Co-Director of Graduate Programs
Ball State College of Architecture and Planning
Zach is graduate of the PhD Program in Architecture History and Theory at Yale University. His doctoral work was advised by Alan Plattus, Caleb Smith, and Henry Sussman. During his time at Yale, Zach worked with and learned from Mario Carpo, Esther da Costa Meyer, Cynthia Davidson, Keller Easterling, Peter Eisenman, Shane Frederick, Kurt Forster, Karsten Harries, Martin Hägglund, Joan Ockman, Sun-Joo Shin, Henry Sussman, and Tony Vidler.
He holds a master's degree in architecture from The Southern California Institute of Architecture where his thesis "Random Walk" was advised by Todd Gannon. Zach also holds a master's degree in education from Michigan State University and a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from Swarthmore College where he conducted research with Mike Brown in the SSX plasma physics lab. After graduating, he continued to pursue physics research through the University of California at Berkeley under the guidance of the late Stuart Freedman at the KamLAND facility in Mozumi, Japan. He has lived in Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Haven, Toyama, Tokyo, Milan, and Siena.
Supervisors: Alan Plattus, Henry Sussman, Caleb Smith, and Olon Dotson
Phone: +1-765-285-5073
Address: 2000 W. University Ave
AB 402
Muncie IN 47306
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Thesis Chapters by Zachariah A Michielli
Making Time is a project of infrastructural history that traces a lineage of human-constructed time reckoning in the Western World.
In the pre-modern era, time was primarily monitored using the Sun’s path across the sky. Evidence demonstrates that time was a passive regulator known primarily through the movement of celestial bodies. The Earth’s orbit created two different patterns: the day and the year. The planetary rotation around its central axis accounted for the familiar periods of light and dark that set the rhythm for daily life. The lunar orbit produced the month and aided in tracking the seasons through the year. As technological advancements allowed for a more accurate understanding of each of the periods generated by these bodies, the ability to calculate mean solar time for the year resulted in
an average hour, the one known today.
Tireless efforts to further the interests of science and engineering in the 19th century revealed that progress itself required accuracy and uniformity. The scientific revolution pushed to coordinate time across nations to improve the standards of measurement. Standardization of weights, measures, and coinage revealed that systemization was a powerful tool for simplifying life. A series of scientific conferences met to discuss the prospect of an organized schedule of universal time; however, they were powerless to enforce their ideas. Albert Myer, Cleveland Abbe, William F. Allen, and Sandford Fleming pushed the world to adopt Standard Time.
In the fall of 1884, the International Meridian Conference met in Washington, DC, to approve a set of resolutions that would encourage governmental cooperation on an international scale. The universal day was born. Though Standard Time was slowly adopted after that, early examples provided by England, Sweden, and North America demonstrated that the population would not quarrel with a move away from solar time. In the years that followed, however, the perpetual motion machine of the Global Chronometer produced side effects that could not have been foreseen. This dissertation argues that one of the most prominent and insidious of these results is a society structured by the machines of Modernity and an epidemic of boredom.
Papers by Zachariah A Michielli
Making Time is a project of infrastructural history that traces a lineage of human-constructed time reckoning in the Western World.
In the pre-modern era, time was primarily monitored using the Sun’s path across the sky. Evidence demonstrates that time was a passive regulator known primarily through the movement of celestial bodies. The Earth’s orbit created two different patterns: the day and the year. The planetary rotation around its central axis accounted for the familiar periods of light and dark that set the rhythm for daily life. The lunar orbit produced the month and aided in tracking the seasons through the year. As technological advancements allowed for a more accurate understanding of each of the periods generated by these bodies, the ability to calculate mean solar time for the year resulted in
an average hour, the one known today.
Tireless efforts to further the interests of science and engineering in the 19th century revealed that progress itself required accuracy and uniformity. The scientific revolution pushed to coordinate time across nations to improve the standards of measurement. Standardization of weights, measures, and coinage revealed that systemization was a powerful tool for simplifying life. A series of scientific conferences met to discuss the prospect of an organized schedule of universal time; however, they were powerless to enforce their ideas. Albert Myer, Cleveland Abbe, William F. Allen, and Sandford Fleming pushed the world to adopt Standard Time.
In the fall of 1884, the International Meridian Conference met in Washington, DC, to approve a set of resolutions that would encourage governmental cooperation on an international scale. The universal day was born. Though Standard Time was slowly adopted after that, early examples provided by England, Sweden, and North America demonstrated that the population would not quarrel with a move away from solar time. In the years that followed, however, the perpetual motion machine of the Global Chronometer produced side effects that could not have been foreseen. This dissertation argues that one of the most prominent and insidious of these results is a society structured by the machines of Modernity and an epidemic of boredom.