Architectural History Working Group

Upcoming Meetings

Past Meetings

Jean-François Belhoste, Professor, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris: “William Le Baron Jenney (1832-1907): Pioneering Engineer and Influential Academic”

Stéphane Gaessler, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Art History: “Cold Architecture”

Amalya Feldman, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History: “Memory and Marginalization in Palma’s Jewish Quarter”

Kanwal Aftab, Ph.D. Candidate, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design: “Overprint Systems: Landscape Architecture Experiments in Mainframe Graphics”

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Professor, Yale School of Architecture: “Architecture and the 'Crisis of Man,' 1950–60”

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

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”

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