Alina Payne is Professor of History of Art and Architecture in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She was trained as an architect (BArch, McGill University) and received MA and PhD degrees in art and architecture history (University of Toronto). She is the author of The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance (1999; Hitchcock Prize, 2000), editor of Displacements. Architecture and the Other Side of the Known (2000) and co-editor of Antiquity and Its Interpreters (2000). She is completing Modern Architecture and the Rise of a Theory of Objects and is currently researching her next book on Renaissance architectural composition. She has published numerous articles on Renaissance and modern architecture, and lectured on topics ranging from Vitruvius to contemporary architectural issues. Most recently she was awarded the Max Planck and Alexander von Humboldt Prize in the Humanities (2006).
Alina Payne teaches courses on Early Modern and Modern European architecture. She has taught at Oberlin College (1990-91) and University of Toronto (1991-2003) and she has held visiting appointments at the GSD, Harvard University (1999/00), Villa I Tatti, Florence (2004/5), Kunsthistorisches Max Planck Instiut Florenz (2007) and Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris (2008). She has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians and as Book Review Editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and serves currently on the editorial boards of several international journals (Res. Journal of Aesthetics and Anthropology).
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