About The Professor
Mark Jarzombek, Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture, currently is also the Associate Dean of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning. He has taught at MIT since 1995download this article (pdf), and has worked on a range of historical topics from the Renaissance to the modern, and worked extensively on nineteenth and twentieth century aesthetics. His first book On Leon Battista Alberti, His Literary and Aesthetic Theories (MIT Press), inaugurated an important reinterpretation of the noted Renaissance humanist. His second book, The Psychologizing of Modernity, Art, Architecture and History (Cambridge University Press, 2000), historicized a complex set of issues around the question of subjectivity and modernity. Jarzombek, who was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, received his architectural Diploma in 1980 from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1986. He was Post-doctoral Resident Fellow at the J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Humanities and Art, Santa Monica, California, in 1986 and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, in 1993. In 2002, he was resident fellow at the Canadian Center for Architecture. He has received numerous awards for his research as well as for the various international conferences that he has organized. He has published in a wide range of journals including the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Assemblage, and Renaissance Studies. He has just published a textbook entitled A Global History of Architecture (Wiley Press, 2006) with co-author Vikram Prakash with the noted illustrator Francis D.K. Ching. Jarzombek is currently working on a set of essays on architecture and modernity.
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