Courses Taught

Courses in the History of Early Modern Art and Architecture:

Architecture of the Eastern Mediterranean, 1350-1650 (co-taught with Gülru Necipoglu)
Architecture in Christian and Islamic regions of the eastern Mediterranean basin studied in comparative perspective with particular focus on the Italian, Ottoman, and Mamluk courts. Emphasis on cross-cultural encounters, uses of the Romano-Byzantine heritage, transmission of scientific knowledge and technology, patronage and architectural practice, languages of ornament, urban renovation, military architecture, emergence of monumental domed structures, churches, palaces and villas.

Renaissance Architecture and the Rise of Classicism
Charts the rise and dissemination of classicism in Renaissance Europe. Lectures focus on the development of the style, its origin in the fascination with antiquity, its response to shifts in social and political life, its mechanisms of transmission (travel, book and print culture) as well as phenomena of exchange (with the East), colonial export, and resistance to this pan-European trend.

Leon Battista Alberti (co-taught with Frank Fehrenbach)
Explores Leon Battista Alberti’s multifaceted oeuvre with particular emphasis on the artistic and theoretical problems he posed before the artists of his time and subsequent generations.

Giorgio Vasari: Art, History and Criticism in the Renaissance

Order and Disorder in Renaissance Architecture
The effects of the heterogenuous "disordered" materials/media surviving from antiquity (words, fragments, painting, architectural representations on coins, plaquettes, reliefs, gems, vessels) on Renaissance architecture design.

Renaissance Theater Spaces

Andrea Palladio: Theory and Practice

The Architectural Treatise in the Renaissance

Architectural Practice in the Renaissance

The Architecture of the Renaissance and Baroque in Europe

Renaissance Architecture in Italy

Renaissance Architecture in Tuscany

 

Courses in the History of Modern Art and Architecture:

Architecture, Display and Mass Culture
Examines the redefinition of architecture at the turn of the 19th/20th century in both practice and theory in the context of the museum/exhibition movement and the rise of historical (archaeology, art history) and man-based sciences (anthropology, ethnology, psychology).

Modernist Architecture and the Theory of Objects

Architectural Ornament and the Discourse of Modernism

History, Theory, Criticism and the Birth of the Modern Movement

Le Corbusier and the Invention of Modernism
Investigates the architecture, painting, and texts of Le Corbusier against the background of competing claims for the invention of modernism in architecture.

The Werkbund

Modern Architecture Since 1900

Consequences of Modernism: Architecture Since 1950

European Architecture and the Birth of the Modern Movement

The Modern Movement in Architecture