Mark Jarzombek (born 1954) is a
United States
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-born
architectural historian
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Professional requirements
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, author and critic. Since 1995 he has taught and served within the History Theory Criticism Section of the Department of Architecture at
MIT School of Architecture and Planning
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,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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,
United States
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.
Career
Jarzombek received his architectural training at the
ETH Zurich
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, where he graduated in 1980. From there he went to
MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...
, where he received his doctorate in 1986. He taught at
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...
until 1994. He has written on a wide variety of subjects, from
Renaissance architecture
Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of Ancient Greece, ancient Greek and ...
to contemporary criticism. He was a 2005 Fellow at the Sterling and Francine
Clark Art Institute
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, commonly referred to as the Clark, is an art museum and research institution located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. Its collection consists of European and American paintings, sculp ...
(Williamstown, MA), a 2002 Fellow at the
Canadian Centre for Architecture
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA; french: Centre Canadien d'Architecture) is a Architecture museum, museum of architecture and research centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 1920, rue Baile (1920, Baile Street), between r ...
(Montreal) a 1993 Resident Fellow at the
Institute for Advanced Study
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(Princeton) and a 1986 Post-doctoral Fellow at the
(Santa Monica).
Jarzombek taught a
massive open online course
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"A Global History of Architecture" at
edX in 2016.
Books
* ''On
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti (; 14 February 1404 – 25 April 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths. H ...
, His Literary and Aesthetic Theories'' (MIT Press, 1989)
''The Psychologizing of Modernity: Art, Architecture and History''(Cambridge University Press, 2000).
''Designing MIT: Bosworth's New Tech''(Boston: Northeastern University Press, October 2004).
''A Global History of Architecture'' with Vikram Prakash and
Francis D. K. Ching (New York: Wiley & Sons, August 2006)
* "The Post-traumatic Turn and the Art of
Walid Raad
Walid Raad (Ra'ad) (Arabic: وليد رعد) (born 1967 in Chbanieh, Lebanon) is a contemporary media artist. The Atlas Group is a fictional collective, the work of which is produced by Walid Raad. He lives and works in New York, where he is curr ...
and
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Krzysztof Wodiczko (born April 16, 1943) is a Polish artist known for his large-scale slide and video projections on architectural facades and monuments. He has realized more than 80 such public projections in Australia, Austria, Canada, England ...
: from Theory to Trope and Beyond," in ''Trauma and Visuality'', Lisa Saltzman and Eric Rosenberg, editors (University Press of New England, 2006)
''Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective''(New York: Wiley & Sons, 2014)
''Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age''(Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2016)
References
External links
MIT faculty ProfileGlobal Architectural History Teaching Collaborative
American architectural historians
American architecture writers
American male non-fiction writers
Historiographers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
MIT School of Architecture and Planning faculty
Architectural theoreticians
Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
Cornell University faculty
Living people
1954 births
American art historians
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