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Research Faculty Current Endeavors
11. The City David Friedman's research and teaching focus on Italian city planning from the 13th- through the 15th-centuries. He has taught seminars in the last years on reflections of the ancient city in European urban design and on the application of geometric survey to design. Florentine New Towns began a research program that explores the relationship between society and the city. His most recent works examine the role of architecture in the development of the urban landscape. "La Piazza di San Giovanni" published in the acts a conference that he organized with the title "Le terre nuove" (2004) looks at the transformation of a city square by its evolving functions and its architectural development. "The Florentine Mercanzia and it Palace" with Antonella Astorri (i Tatti Studies, 2005) represents a collaboration aimed at the integration of institutional and architectural history. Stanford Anderson co-directed a research program on streets at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, under a grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. One result of the program was his book, On Streets (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1978). Anderson wrote the entry on Urban Morphology for the Dizionario dell’architettura del XX Secolo (Turin 2004). He is now involved in funded research in "micro-urbanism" with special attention to Chinese cities (Shanghai). Arindam Dutta's recent article, "Computing Alibis: Third World Teratologies" in Perspecta 40 reflects on what the "city" might actually mean when construed as a term for intervention by certain epistemological paradigms or as fashioned by so-called "experts" as architects, urban planners and computer programmers. The concept of "The Islamic City" is one of the main research interests of Nasser Rabbat, who regularly teaches a graduate seminar on the topic. He has several essays on various cities in the Islamic world in his book Thaqafat al Bina’ wa Bina’ al-Thaqafa (The Culture of Building and Building Culture) (Beirut, 2002). Mark Jarzombek has been working on the post-war rebuildings of Dresden. A version of his work on the topic was published by the journal Studies in Theoretical and Applied Aesthetics (Spring 2001), titled, “Urban Heterology and the Dialectics of Post-Traumatic History.” Caroline Jones’ book in progress, Desires for the World Picture, will investigate the complex relationship between urbanism of world fairs and biennials in relation to modern and contemporary art.
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