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Research Faculty Current Endeavors
10. American Art and Architecture Caroline Jones is recognized as a leading scholar in the field of modern and postmodern American art, and has worked extensively as both a curator and scholar. Her exhibition catalogues include Modern Art at Harvard and Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1955, as well as scholarly books on American art writer Clement Greenberg (Eyesight Alone, 2005) and an examination of post-war constructions of the American artist (Machine in the Studio, 1996/98). Mark Jarzombek has written on post-war domestic architecture, on corporate architecture and on the Beaux-Arts tradition in America. His book on William Welles Bosworth was published in 2004, investigating this French-trained American architect responsible for MIT’s original campus design from 1913. Stanford Anderson has had a longstanding interest both in Louis Kahn and in American city planning. He has worked in particular on the urban development of Savannah, Georgia. A study of Aiken, South Carolina, will appear soon in Places. Gail Fenske, Professor of the History of Architecture at Roger Williams whose specialty is the early modern skyscraper, has been a regular visiting faculty member. Her book The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York was recently published (University of Chicago Press, 2008). AKPIA visiting professor Jerrilynn Dodds’ book, NY Masjid: The Mosques of New York (2002), studies the spaces and identities created by the diverse Muslim communities of New York.
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