Architecture and urbanism of modern
Europe and America; architecture and epistemology, historiography
Recent publication
"Modernity as a Continuing Attitude," preface to Irene Fatsea et al, eds., Le Corbusier – Greece – Modernity (Volos, Greece: University of Thessaly, 2008).
Forthcoming publications
Editor with Gail Fenske and David Fixler, Aalto and America
(funding by Graham Foundation).
Consultant Editor, Oxford Companion to Architecture (Patrick
Goode, editor) (London: Oxford University Press, in preparation).
Urbanism in pre-modern Europe;
late medieval and Renaissance architecture
Recent publication
with Ballon, Hilary, "Portarying the City in Early Modern Europe: Measurement, Representation, and Planning". Cartography in the European Renaissance, ed. David Woodward. Volume Three of the History of Cartography, part 1, (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2007), pp. 680 - 704.
Forthcoming publications
"UA 4180, Urban Design in Rome during the Pontificate of Paul IV (1555-1559)", Geometrical Objects: Architecture and the Mathematical Sciences, 1400 - 1800, ed. Anthony Gerbino, part the series Transformations (M.I.T. Press). In press.
"Leonardo's map of Imola" and "Talamone" (a rare notarial map from the fourteenth century. It represents a new town founded by Siena on the Tyrrhanean coast.) Both for a collection of essays on Italian city plans of the pre-modern period, ed. Marco Folin, University of Genoa. In press.
"Urban Design without Maps", Arnolfo's Moment. Conference held at the Villa i Tatti to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the death of the first architect of Florence cathedral, Arnolfo di Cambio. In press.
Mark
Jarzombek, Professor of History and Theory of Architecture,
Associate Dean of School of Architecture and Planing (personal website)
Research areas
Modern architecture; theory; Renaissance
architecture
Recent publication
"Lalibela and Libaanos. The King and Hydro-Engineer of 13th Century Ethiopia," Construction Ahead, (May-June 2007) and Thresholds 34: Portability (Fall 2007)
Forthcoming publications
"Un-messy Realism and the Decline of the Architectural Mind," PERSPECTA 40, (forthcoming 2008)
Twentieth-Century Architectural Theory, Volume Editor (London:
Harvey Miller Publishers, forthcoming).
Urban Heterology and the Dialectics of Post-Traumatic History
(manuscript being reviewed)
Caroline
Jones, Professor of Art History,
Director, History Theory and Criticism Section
Research areas
Modern and contemporary art; globalism
and new media art
Recent publication
as editor: "Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art" (MIT and the List Visual Art Center, 2006)
Forthcoming publications
"Techno-epistemologies in new media art," in "Spuren der Avantgarde: Teatrum Machinarum" (Walter de Gruyter Verlag, Berlin, forthcoming).
Nasser
Rabbat, Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for
Islamic Architecture
Research areas
Classical and medieval Islamic
architecture and urbanism
Recent publication
Courtyard House: Between Cultural Expression and Universal Application, (Ashgate, 2008).
European visual culture; history of collecting; European encounter with non-Western art
Recent publication
“Pierre-Jean Mariette, le connaisseur d’estampes,” in L’Estampe, un art multiple à la portée de tous? ed. Sophie Raux and Nicolas Surlapierre, Lille: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2008.
“The Collector’s Cut: Why Pierre-Jean Mariette Tore Up His Drawings and Put Them Back Together Again,” Master Drawings, Spring 2008.
Forthcoming publications
“Entrepreneurial Art History: Pierre-Jean Mariette and the recueil d’estampes in Eighteenth-Century Europe,” in A l’origine de livre d’art—Les recueils d’estampes comme entreprise éditoriale en Europe, du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle, ed. Cordélia Hattori, Estelle Leutrat, and Maxime Préaud, expected, 2008.
