Research

Faculty Awards, Grants, Fellowships

listed in order of year received

2007

Nasser Rabbat, Senior Resident Scholar Fellowship from American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE).  (2007-2008)

2006

Stanford Anderson, funded research principal investigator, Research and Teaching Program on Micro-Urbanism, engaging MIT students, and Li Xiangning and other professors at Tongji University, Shanghai, China, January 2006 and continuing.

Arindam Dutta, with Mark Goulthorpe, Rotch Travelling Studio Award, The Boston Society of Architects/American Institute of Architects, 2006-2007.

2005

Stanford Anderson, Distinguished Alumnus Award, College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2005

David Friedman, Senior Fellow, Dibner Institute, Cambridge, MA, for Spring 2006

Mark Jarzombek, Clark Fellow, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, Fall 2005

2004

Stanford Anderson

  • Topaz Laurate, American Institute of Architects and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 2004.
  • Honarary Citizen, Montevideo, Uraguay, 2004

2003

Arindam Dutta, J Paul Getty Post-doctoral Fellowship in Art History in the Humanities, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, 2003 - 2004

Mark Jarzombek

  • 2003 Graham Award for Publication of Global Architecture (New York: Wiley Press, 2006)
  • Wiley Press, Travel Grant, together with Vikram Prakash and Francis Ching.
  • Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Fund Research Grant, MIT. 2003-2004

2002

David Friedman

  • National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, January-August 2004
  • Delmas Foundation grant for research in Venice in June-July 2003
  • Graham Foundation for research in Rome, October-December 2003
  • American Academy resident appointment, October-December 2003

Mark Jarzombek, 2002 Award from the American Embassy (Berlin) and Checkpoint Charlie Stiftung

Nasser Rabbat, La Chaire de L’Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA), Paris, Jan-Feb 2003

2001

Arindam Dutta

  • Clarence H. Blackall Chair in Architectural History. Department of Architecture, MIT. 2001-present
  • Research Grant. The Cabot Fund, MIT. 2001-2002
  • Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Fund Research Grant, MIT. 2001-2002.

Mark Jarzombek, 2001 Graham Award for East European Art and Architecture, MIT, (with co-chair Juliana Maxim)

2000

Caroline Jones, Fellow of the Kolleg and of the Max-Planck-Institüt, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin; Max-Planck-Institüt für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin Germany, August 2001- August 2002

1999

Caroline Jones, Charles C. Elderidge prize from the Smithsonian American Art Museum for Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist (University of Chicago Press, 1997)

1998

Mark Jarzombek, 1998 Graham Award for Architecture, Art and Cultural History (History Theory Criticism 25th Anniversary Symposium), MIT

1997

Stanford Anderson, Festschrift in honor of S. Anderson: Martha Pollak, ed., The Education of the Architect: Historiography, Urbanism, and the Growth of Architectural Knowledge (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1997)

Nasser Rabbat, American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Fellowship 1999-2000

1996

Nasser Rabbat, The Institute for Advanced Study Visitor, Princeton, NJ Spring 1997

1995

David Friedman, Graham Foundation Fellowship, May-June 1996

Mark Jarzombek, 1995 Martin Dominquez Distinguished Teaching Award, Cornell University

1994

Mark Jarzombek

  • 1994 Paramount Professor Award In Recognition of Excellence of Teaching from the Panhellenic Councils, Cornell University
  • 1994 Mellon Travel Grant (to Paris)

1993

Nasser Rabbat, The J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship 1993-94 in the History of Art and Humanities

1992

David Friedman, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1992

Nasser Rabbat, The Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Award, MIT 1992-93

1991

Mark Jarzombek

  • 1991 Dean's Award for Excellence from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Cornell University

1990

Mark Jarzombek, 1990 Dean's Award for Excellence from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Cornell University

1989

Stanford Anderson, Graduate Student Association Teaching Award, MIT, 1989

David Friedman, 1989 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award of the Society of Architectural Historians for Florentine New Towns: Urban Design in the Late Middle Ages

Mark Jarzombek

  • 1988 Mellon Travel Grant (to Italy) from Cornell University Western Studies Program

up to 1988

David Friedman ... Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, 1988 - 1989.
David Friedman ... Guest Scholar at the Villa I Tatti, Florence, July -September, 1988.
Stanford Anderson ...King Fahd Award for Design and Research in Islamic Architecture, 1985-86. (as director of studies for award winner, Rajmohan Shetty).
David Friedman ... Member of The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Fall semester, 1985.
David Friedman ... National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1983
Stanford Anderson ... American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, 1977-78
Stanford Anderson ... Graham Foundation Fellowship, 1971
Stanford Anderson ... John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1969-70