Architectural History Working Group

Upcoming Meetings

Hend Elsayed, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Art History: “Debunk the Myth of the Black Death: Cairo’s Urban Expansion and Population Density”

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Professor, Yale School of Architecture

Amalya Feldman, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History

Kanwal Aftab, Ph.D. Candidate, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design

Stéphane Gaessler, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Art History 

Past Meetings

Ethan Matt Kavaler, Professor of Art History: “Gothic Turns in on Itself: Anton Pilgram’s Vienna Pulpit”

Jean-Philippe Garric, Professor, History of Architecture, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne: “Imitating Italy: Architectural Design and the Idea of Model in the French Nineteenth Century”

Pierre Marty, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Art History: “Drawing Academies and the City in Eighteenth-Century France”

Anthony Gerbino, Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester: “Picturing and Mapping Landscapes in Renaissance France”

Taro Zheming Cai, Ph.D. Candidate, Daniels Faculty: “Landscape-Making as Transnational Transfer: Modernizing West Lake of Hangzhou, China (1949–2011)”

Elliott Sturtevant, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University: “The Niagara Escarpment: An Architectural History”

Heba Mostafa, Assistant Professor of Art History: “Modalities of Nature Veneration: Mapping Meaning at the Nilometer in Cairo”

Anooradha Siddiqi, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Barnard College and Columbia University: “Minnette de Silva and a Modern Architecture of the Past”

Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Professor of Art History, University College Dublin: “A Towering Memorial: The Robert Vann Tower and the Belgian Friendship Building”

Joseph Clarke, Associate Professor of Art History: “Too Much Information: 1960s Office Design and the Limits of Noise Reduction”

Jason Nguyen, Assistant Professor of Architecture: "The Measure of Labour: The Case of the Toisé in Old Regime France"

Claire Jensen, Ph.D. Candidate: “Kings in Heaven, Workers in Hell: A Hospital Church in the Medieval Kingdom of Naples”

Lina El-Shamy, Ph.D. Candidate: “Salon Modhab: The Gilded Salons of Contemporary Egyptian Homes”

Ethan Matt Kavaler, Professor of Art History: "Microarchitecture, Klein Architektur, and Archisculpture: the Early Modern Tomb"

Łukasz Stanek, Professor, University of Manchester: "Socialist Worldmaking"

David Karmon, Professor, College of the Holy Cross: “The Varieties of Architectural Experience: Renaissance Architecture and Multisensory Perception”

Peter Sealy, Assistant Professor of Architecture: “Angels in No Man’s Land: The Berlin Wall in Film”

Joseph L. Clarke, Sabine von Fischer, and John Durham Peters: “Listen Here: Histories of Acoustics and Communication”

Timothy Hyde, Associate Professor of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: “The Building Site: Redux”

Mary Louise Lobsinger, Associate Professor of Architecture: “Units of Measure”

Jessica Mace, Postdoctoral Fellow: “Whose Heritage? A Case Study of MOCA Toronto”

Peter Sealy, Assistant Professor of Architecture: “Photographs in the Late and Postmodern Architectural Drawing”

Ethan Matt Kavaler, Professor of Art History: “Realism and the Demise of Gothic”

Joseph L. Clarke, Assistant Professor of Art History: “Nothing Left to Lose: Claims of Autonomy in Art and Architecture”

Philip Sapirstein, Assistant Professor of Art History and Anthropology: “Recent Advances in 3D Recording and the Study of Ancient Architecture: The Case of the Temple of Hera at Olympia”

John Paul Ricco, Professor of Comparative Literature and Art History and Visual Culture: “Architecture and the Common: Edges, Parasites, Anonymity”

Tia Sager, Ph.D. candidate: “Minoan Modularity: Applying Space Syntax Analysis to Minoan Postpalatial Architecture on Crete”

Alice Friedman, Grace Slack McNeil Professor of American Art, Wellesley College: “Hiding in Plain Sight: Love, Life and the Queering of Domesticity in Early Twentieth-Century New England”

Heba Mostafa, Assistant Professor of Art History: “Between Two Caliphs: Jerusalem and the Formation of Islamic Architecture”

Jill Caskey, Associate Professor of Art History: “Patronage and the Spatialization of Prestige at San Nicola, Bari, 1361”

Kurt W. Forster, Visiting Professor Emeritus, Yale University: “The Birth of Architecture from the Spirit of Conversation”

Mabel O. Wilson, Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Columbia University: “White by Design”

Carl Knappett, Professor of Art History and Walter Graham/Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory: “The Architecture of ‘House Societies’ in the Ancient Aegean”

Christy Anderson, Professor of Art History: “Maritime Spaces in the Early Modern North Atlantic”

Ethan Matt Kavaler, Professor of Art History: “Diamonds are Forever: Cell Vaults and the Beginnings of History”

Joseph L. Clarke, Assistant Professor of Art History: “Histories in Plaster”

Organizational roundtable