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Research Faculty Current Endeavors
16. Comparative Global Studies in Art and Architecture HTC faculty explore comparative views of the arts and architectures of different cultures and contexts. The section is ideally suited for such an endeavor; with some exceptions, faculty interests and research cover significant regions of the globe. Mark Jarzombek is co-author with Vikramaditya Prakash and Francis D. K. Ching at the University of Washington in Seattle, on a textbook of world architecture: A Global History of Architecture (Wiley & Sons 2006). Arindam Dutta’s 2007 The Bureaucracy of Beauty lays out the methodological parameters for such comparative study; he has in the past given seminars and lecture courses on the subject. More recently, on the basis of the arguments in Bureaucracy, he was commissioned to lecture in Ireland on Irish art in the early twentieth century in its nationalist period. Dutta's current project, Ancestralities: Nature, Architecture and the Debt, draws from archival sources in seven different countries: Britain, the United States, India, France, Algeria, Bangladesh and Australia. Stanford Anderson is involved in continuing work with both the design and history faculty of Tongji University in Shanghai, and pursues research into modernism in the Latin American context. Research by faculty and doctoral candidates in the Aga Khan Program have extended from Venice to India. James Wescoat is interested in comparative theory and method in landscape research, and has published on long-term flows of ideas and technologies of water management between the U.S. and South Asia. Caroline Jones’s continuing interest in art and critical practices in Latin America, Europe, Asia and elsewhere will come into focus in her forthcoming book Desires for the World Picture. And Kristel Smentek examines cross-cultural encounters in the Enlightenment in her research on the “Turkish” painter Jean Ettienne Liotard and the reception of Asian Art in the eighteenth century Europe.
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