Publications
Mas(q)ulinity: Constructing Gender Ideals in the Stage Architecture of Inigo Jones (1610–1611)." Optical Correctness. 5.1 (2019): 45-62. "
The Architecture of Banking in Renaissance Italy: Constructing the Spaces of Money. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Ugliness and Judgment: On Architecture in the Public Eye. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.
“The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Political Symbolism of the Periphery,” ." Perspecta . 52.52 (2019): 136-145. "
“The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Political Symbolism of the Periphery” ." Perspecta. 52 (2019): 136-145. "
Sodomy and the City: Mapping Fear, Surveillance, Sexuality, and Punishment in Early Modern Florence., 2018.
Reconstruction and the Synthesis of the Arts in France, 1944-1962. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge, 2018.
Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Eugenics in the Garden: Transatlantic Architecture in the Crafting of Modernity. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018.
Penrith Lakes: Staging Landscape Artifice and Aboriginal Heritage." Change Over Time, special issue Landscapes of Extraction.Winter (2018). "
Review: Queering Contemporary Asian American Art." Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture. 3.1 (2018): 124-126. "
An Index of Intimacy." An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art. New York: DelMonico Prestel, 2017. 85-87.
The Architecture of Percier and Fontaine and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Revolutionary France. London; New York: Routledge, 2017.
Text as Mediator: Reforming Art in the Protestant Aesthetic." Saeculum Journal for the Study of Christianity and Culture. 12.1 (2017): 68-81. "
Tapestries for the Emperor: Taking the Tenture Chinoise to Beijing." Hong Kong: University Museum and Art Gallery, 2017.
Stones of Use: Cobalt, Spar, and the Utility of Architectural Materials." Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 40.3 (2017): 399-420. "
Evidentiary Earthquakes: Design and Discontinuity through Seismic Methods." Leonardo. 50.2 (2017): 152-159. "
Love, by the Book: On Affective Clichés in Sophie Calle’s Double Game." Život Umjetnosti. 100 (2017). "
What is the relationship between ceramics and contemporary art?" Spike Art Quarterly. 53 (2017): 193. "
The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Napoléon to ISIS. The Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, 2016.
China and Greco-Roman Antiquity: Overture to a Study of the Vase in Eighteenth-Century France." Journal18.1 (2016). "
Chinoiseries for the Qing: A French Gift of Tapestries to the Qianlong Emperor." Journal of Early Modern History. 20.1 (2016). "
The Global Work of Art: World's Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age. Forerunners: Ideas First. Chicago, IL: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
The Purchase on Modernity: The Turkish National Narrative and Osman Hamdi Bey's 'The Tortoise Trainer'." Thresholds. 43 (2015): 178-187, 226-235. "
Criticism as Commitment: Viewpoints on History, Arabism, and Revolution (in Arabic). Beirut: Riad Alrayyes Publisher, 2015.
Book Review, 'The Origins of Palestinian Art'. H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences. H-AMCA, 2015.
Correcting and Clarifying. The Interpellated Subject Speaks: Articulating Dissent in an Era of Information Control ed. Vol. 11/2014. Open Systems, 11/2014. Vienna: Open Systems, 2014.
Air Nationalism: Norman Foster and Fernando Romero’s Mexico City Airport. Vol. 2014. The Avery Review, 2014. New York: Office of Publications, Columbia GSAPP, 2014.
Mariette and the Science of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Studies in Art Historiography. Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2014.
Processing Transactions, Forming Intent: Co-Production, Exchange and the work of Allison Smith." Future Anterior. 10.1 (2013): 52-68. "
Event/Site." 33rd congress of the International Committee of the History of Art, Nuremberg // : 33. Internationaler Kunsthistoriker-Kongress/ CIHA 2012, Nürnberg. Held 15th - 20th July 2012, Germanisches Nationalmu. Nuremberg, Germany: Verlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, 2013.
Delta Waters: Research to Support Integrated Water and Environmental Management in the Lower Mississippi River. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2013.
Pax Americana: Landscapes of the American Pursuit of Peace." 15th National Conference on Planning History. Toronto, CANADA: SACRPH, 2013.
Between Present and Future: Marion Mahony's Theory of the Globe." 2013 Buell Dissertation Colloquium. New York, NY: Buell, 2013.
Building the Common: Mahony's and Griffin's Catholic College." 66th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians. Buffalo: SAH, 2013.
Constitutional Modernism: Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933-1959. Minneapolis, MN: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Introduction. Buildings and objects: the Rococo and after." Journal of Art Historiography.9 (2013). "
Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin's Suitcase." Facts, Incidents, Accidents, Circumstances, Situations: Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin. Lodz: Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi, 2013.
Reinstallation and the Real. The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture, 2013.
Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era. London, UK: Routledge, 2013.
A Second Modernism: MIT, Architecture, and the ‘Techno-Social’ Moment. Eds. Stephanie Tuerk, et al. Cambridge, MA: SA+P Press & MIT Press, 2013.
Visual Documents, Property Archives, and the Map of the City of Rome: 1563 – 1712." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.71 (2012). "
An Enchanted World Order: Theosophical Garden Cities in England, India and Australia." 15th International Planning History Society Conference. Sao Paulo: IPHS, 2012.
Hanging Out, Crowding Out or Talking Things Out: Curating the Limits of Discursive Space." Journal of Curatorial Studies. 1.1 (2012). "
Designing Dissent: Vilanova Artigas and the São Paulo School of Architecture. Ed. Ines Weizman. Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence. London: Routledge, 2012.
Blue Butterflies - On Shadow Sites I-II and the Work of Jananne Al-Ani." Broadsheet - Contemporary Visual Art and Culture. 41.2 (2012). "
Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security. National Academies Press, 2012.
Governing By Design: Architecture, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.
I could have been entirely fictional..." Broadsheet - Contemporary Visual Art and Culture. 41.1 (2012). "
Prisoners of Ritoque: The Open City and the Ritoque Concentration Camp." Journal of Architectural Education. 66.1 (2012). "
Quartz." 1740: un abrégé du monde, Savoirs et collections autour de Dezallier d’Argenville (2012): 197-206. "
Primitivism, humanism, and ambivalence: Cobra and Post-Cobra." RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics. 59-60.Spring/Autumn (2011): 282-302. "
Who Designed the Plan of the Florentine New Town of San Giovanni Valdarno (1299)?" Quaderni del Dipartimento Patrimonio Architettonico e Urbanistico del University di Reggio Calabria.37 (2011). "
No More Play : Conversations on Open Space and Urban Speculation in Los Angeles and Beyond. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011.
The Portable Document Format (PDF): Multimedia Reviews." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 70.4 (2011). "
Gardens, pavilions and tents: The arts of shelter." Architecture in Islamic Arts: Treasures of the Aga Khan Museum. Geneva: Aga Khan Trust for Culture, 2011. 237-244.
On the Way to the Thousand-Pillared Mandapam: Travelogue on the Monuments of an Agrarian Insurgency." Perspecta. 43 (2010). "
The Banchi in the Rione di Ponte: Architecture and Urbanism. Conference on Early Modern Rome, 1341-1667. Rome: Editore Edisai, 2010.
Mamluk History Through Architecture: Monuments, Culture and Politics in Medieval Egypt and Syria. I. B. Tauris, 2010.
Review: Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 5 (dvd)." Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation. 26.4 (2010). "
Exhibition Catalog "On Procession: Art on Parade". Indianapolis, Ind: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2009.
Water Shortages and Water Conserving Urban Design in Pakistan." Running on Empty: Pakistan’s Water Crisis. Ed. M. Kugelman. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2009. 129-152.
Portraying the City in Early Modern Europe: Measurement, Representation, and Planning." The History of Cartography. Cartography in the Renaissance. Vol. vol 3, part 1. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. pp. 680-704.
Rococo Exotic: French Mounted Porcelain and the Allure of the East. New York, NY: The Frick Collection, 2007.
Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Césarine Davin-Mirvault’s Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni." The Frick Collection Members’ Magazine.Winter 2006 (2006). "
The Bureaucracy of Beauty: Design in the Age of its Global Reproducibility. New York, NY: Routledge, 2006.
Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, And Contemporary Art. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006.
Designing MIT: The Architecture of William Welles Bosworth. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 2004, 159 pages, 2004.
Water for Life: Water Management and Environmental Policy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Designing the Present: The Cole Circle and the Architecture of an Imperial Bureaucracy, 1851-1901. Vol. PhD. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 2001.
Fiorenza: Geography and Representation in a Fifteenth Century City View." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte. 64.1 (2001). "
Urban Heterology: Dresden and the Dialectics of Post-Traumatic History. Lund, Sweden: Lund University, 2001.
The Landscape of Roman Water Law." Environmental Design: Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre (2000): 88-99. "
The Psychologizing of Modernity: Art, Architecture and History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Monumental Urban Form in the Late Italian Commune: The Loggia della Mercanzia in Bologna and Siena." Renaissance Studies. 12.3 (1998). "
The Education of the Architect: historiography, urbanism, and the growth of architectural knowledge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997.
Painting machines: industrial image and process in contemporary art. exhibition catalog ed. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.
The New Empiricism-Bay Region-Axis: Kay Fisker and Postwar Debates on Fuctionalism, Regionalism, and Monumentality." Journal of Architectural Education. 50.3 (1997). "
The Citadel of Cairo: A New Interpretation of Royal Mamluk Architecture. Leiden; New York, NY: E.J. Brill, 1995.
Style Architecture and Building-Art: Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth Century and its Present Condition. Santa Monica, CA; Chicago, IL: The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities; The University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Toward a Map of Mughal Lahore: An Outline of Cartoraphic Sources from 1590 to 1990." Environmental Design: Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre (1993): 186-93. "
Ritual Movement and Territoriality During the Reign of Humayun." Environmental Design: Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre (1991): 56-63. "
On Leon Baptista Alberti: His Literary and Aesthetic Theories. Cambridge, MA, USA: The MIT Press, 1989.
The Islamic Garden: Issues for Landscape Research." Environmental Design: Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre (1986): 10-19. "
Early Water Systems in Mughal India." Environmental Design: Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre (1985): 51-57. "
Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums. New York, NY: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1985.
Planning for Diversity and Choice: Possible Futures and their Relations to the Man-Controlled Environment. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1968.