Mark Jarzombek (born 1954) is a

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-born

architectural historian An architectural historian is a person who studies and writes about the history of architecture, and is regarded as an authority on it. Professional requirements As many architectural historians are employed at universities and other facilities ...

, 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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Career

Jarzombek received his architectural training at the

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, where he graduated in 1980. From there he went to

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, 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 tea ...

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 Greek and Roman thought ...

to contemporary criticism. He was a 2005 Fellow at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA), a 2002 Fellow at the

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(Montreal) a 1993 Resident Fellow at the

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(Princeton) and a 1986 Post-doctoral Fellow at the

Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities The Getty Research Institute (GRI), located at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, is "dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts".

(Santa Monica). Jarzombek taught a

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"A Global History of Architecture" at edX in 2016.

Books

* ''On

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, 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 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
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