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Stanford Anderson, Professor

Research areas 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).

Arindam Dutta, Associate Professor

David Friedman, Associate Professor (curriculum vitae),
Director, History Theory and Criticism Section

Research areas 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

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).

Forthcoming publications

al-Naqd Iltizaman (Criticism as Commitment), (Beirut: Riad Alrayyes Publisher, forthcoming 2008).

An edited book of essays on Early Islamic Urbanism to be published by E.J. Brill in 2009.

Kristel Smentek, Assistant Professor of Art History

Research areas 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.

James Wescoat, Aga Khan Professor

Research areas Water-conserving design and policy, Mughal and Islamic gardens; landscape history and theory; geographic theory
Recent publication

"Comparative International Water Research," in the Universities Council on Water Resources, Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education, Issue 142, Pages 1-6, June 2009*

"Questions about the Political Significance of Mughal Garden Waterworks," in Middle Eastern Garden Traditions: Unity and Diversity,u> edited by Michel Conan. Washington: Dumbarton Oaks and Harvard University Press, 2007, pp. 177-95.

James L. Wescoat, Jr., Lisa Headington, and Rebecca Theobald, "Water and Poverty in the United States," in Geoforum 38(2007): 801-14.* Electronic update published as "Water and Poverty in the United States: An Update," in Encyclopedia of the Earth, 2008.

Forthcoming publications

"Submerged Landscapes: the Public Trust in Urban Environmental Design, from Chicago to Karachi and Back Again." Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, July 2009, 41pp.

"Water Shortages and Water-Conserving Urban Design in Pakistan," in Pakistans Water Crisis. Ed. M. Kugelman. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center, forthcoming fall 2009 .

"Searching for Wisdom in Mughal-Rajput Waterworks: East-West Interdependencies," /East-West Landscape Interdependencies. Eds. Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn and Joachim Ganzert, University of Hanover, forthcoming fall 2009.