Mark Jarzombek (born 1954) is a
United States
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architectural historian, 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,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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United States
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Books
* ''On
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti (; 14 February 1404 – 25 April 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, Catholic priest, priest, linguistics, linguist, philosopher, and cryptography, cryptographer; he epitomised the natu ...
, 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).
*''Urban Heterology: Dresden and the Dialectics of Post-Traumatic History'' (Lund University, 2001)
* "The Post-traumatic Turn and the Art of
Walid Raad and
Krzysztof Wodiczko: 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)
Recognition
* 2019: Andrew Mellon Foundation for GAHTC ($1 million)
* 2016: Andrew Mellon Foundation for GAHTC ($1.5 million)
References
External links
Personal HomepageMIT faculty Profile
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
ETH Zurich alumni
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