Conferences, Lectures
Recent Papers
Order and Disorder in Renaissance Architecture”
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae
University of Chicago, November 2007.
Keynote Lecture: “Architecture: Image or “Kunst der Zerstreuung”?
Conference on Das Auge der Architecktur
NFS Bildkritik, Basel, September 2007.
“Heinrich Wölfflin and the Problem of Stilwandlung”
Symposium on Style
Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa and Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Cortona, May 2007.
“The Object as Event: Periodization, Aesthetics, and Portable Architecture in 19th-century Berlin”
HT+ Seminar
Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, December 2006
“Neo-Baroque architecture and Baroque historiography from Burckhardt to Riegl”
Rethinking the Baroque
University of York, July 2006.
“Renaissance architecture, visual indexing and textual practices”
Writing About Art and Architecture: Authorship, Circulation and Publication
Session co-chairs Claire Farago and Francesca Fiorani
Renaissance Society of America, 2006.
“Architecture, Ornament and the Culture of Objects”
Margaret Henderson Floyd Memorial Lecture in Architecture
Tufts University, October 2006.
“From Gothic Shoe to objet type: Architecture from Wolfflin to Le Corbusier”
Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz, June 2005.
“Rudolf Wittkower”
Architettura e storia dell arte—un dialogo difficile Symposium
University of Rome and Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Rome, May 2005.
“Architecture, composition, biology and beauty in 19th century German Thought”
Das Versprechen der Schonheit Colloquium
Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz, April 2005.
“Riegl, Architecture and the Culture of Objects”
Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, April 2004.
“Alberti and the Origins of the paragone Between Architecture and the Figural Arts”
Alberti 600th Anniversary Symposium, Mantua, October 2003.
“From Semper to Giedion: Modernist Architecture and the Rise of a Theory of Objects”;
“Semper and the Nobility of Origins”;
“Riegl, Kunstwollen and the Contribution of Volkskunde”
Getty Lecturer, Institute for Advanced Study, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania, May 2003.
“Riegl, Folklore and the Art History of Objects”
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, May 2003.
“Vasari and the Gothic”
The Historical Imagination of Renaissance Art Symposium
Clark Institute, Williamsburg, June 2002.
“The Power of Objects. From Semper to Riegl and Beyond”
Duke University, April 2002.
“Text and Image in Architectural Books of the Renaissance”
Keynote address, Book History and Print Culture Programme, University of Toronto, February 2002.
“Vasari, Architecture and the Origins of Historicizing Art"
Harvard University, October 2001.
“Renaissance Figural Ornament: Theory and Practice”
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, October 2001.
“From Gothic Shoe to objet type: Modern Architecture and the Rise of a Theory of Objects”
Silberberg Lecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, November 2000.
“Domestic Architecture and the Modern Vernacular”
Plenary Speaker, Conference of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC), Toronto, June 2000.
"Renaissance Architecture and the Figural Arts: Conventions of Representation and Imaging”
School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame, April 2000.
"Progress, Identity and Style: Architecture and the Origins of Historicizing Art"
College Art Association, New York, February 2000.
"Ornament"
Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, November 1999.
"Acts of Attention: The Triumphal Arch in Renaissance Architectural Criticism"
School of Architecture, University of Waterloo, June 1999.
"Renaissance Ornament and the Architectural figura: Visual and Verbal Discourses"
Harvard University, May 1999.
"The Ornamental Surface: Venetian Architecture in the Era of the Book"
Amherst College, April 1999.
"Architectural Criticism and the Sciences in 17th Century Italy: The Case of Teofilo Gallaccini" Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles, March 1999.
"Architectural Criticism and Visual Eloquence in the World of Galileo"
University of Toronto, January 1999.
"Architectural Criticism and the Sciences in 17th Century Italy: The Case of Teofilo Gallaccini"
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, November 1998.
"From ornatus to figura: Ornament in Sixteenth-Century Italian Architecture"
Einstein Forum, Berlin, June 1998.
"Of Science and Art: Teofilo Gallaccini and Architectural Theory in the Republic of Letters"
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, November 1997.
"Architectural Theories of imitatio and the Debates of Language and Style"
AAH Conference, Courtauld Institute, London, April 1997.
"La theorie des composites dans l'architecture italienne de la renaissance"
Université Sorbonne, Paris May 1996.
"Architectural Bricolage and Its Metaphors in Italian Theory of the Renaissance"
Centre for World Art Studies, University of East Anglia, May 1996.
"Architectural Books for the 18th Century Gentleman"
Robert Adam and the Georgian Era Conference, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1996.
Panels, Invited Contributions
Architecture and Knowledge, Seminar co-chair with Antoine Picon, Humanities Center, Harvard University, 2007-08.
Vision and Its Instruments in Early Modern Europe, Part II, Radcliffe Advanced Seminar, Harvard University, February 2008.
Vision and Its Instruments in Early Modern Europe, Part I, Max Planck Seminar, Kunsthistorisches/Max Planck Institut in Florence, June 2007.
“Seeing Science and the Science of Seeing: Art, Medicine and Technology in Early Modern Italy”
Co-organizer with Federica Favino
Renaissance Society of America Conference, 2006
“Authors, Books and Audiences in Early Modern Italy”
Respondent; Session organized by Lisa Pon and Maria Loh
Society for the History of Authorship, Readership and Publishing, University of London, July 2002.
“The New Restoration. Italy. Scientific-Technological Advancement in Art and Architecture”
Symposium Moderator and Chair
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, March 2001.
“Architecture and Science in Early Modern Europe”
Co-chair with Christy Anderson
Society of Architectural Historians Conference, Miami, June 2000
“Modernist Architecture and the Discourse on Ornament”
Session Chair
College Art Association, Toronto, February 1998
“The Architect's Bookshelf: The Library as Laboratory in the Renaissance and the Baroque”
Co-chair of CASVA Seminar with Christy Anderson
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, December 1997
“The World of Bruno Taut”
Conference Moderator
Visions of Light: The Phenomenon of Glass Architecture in the 20th Century Exhibition,
Design Exchange, Toronto, February 1997
“Body and Building: A Symposium in Honour of Joseph Rykwert”
Session moderator and Chair
University of Pennsylvania, April 1996
“Antiquity and Antiquity Transumed”
Co-chair of interdisciplinary conference with Anne Kuttner, and Rebekah Smick
University of Toronto, March 1994
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