My training is in the history of architecture and urbanism with research focus on France and Russia. My teaching engages me with architecture around the world; recent teaching projects include the study of pre-industrial "green" building principles (Architecture Across Cultures) and the incorporation of 3-D computer modeling in my introductory course in the history of Urban Design (Great Spaces). When not teaching, researching or photographing buildings I might be found cooking, reading, swimming, or traveling with my husband, a landscape architect, and our 12 year-old daughter.
This past summer (2010) Professor Jennifer Germann and I led a short-term study abroad course in Paris called "Art and Politics in Paris: Reading Power in Space and Image." In 10 intensive days we visited palaces, public spaces, and museum collections great and small, exploring ways in which visual images and environments have been used to express and contest claims to power. The course was a pilot for the department and will be offered again in summer of 2012.
I have posted a few pictures from the Paris trip in a Photo Gallery (at left), as well as some images from the Great Spaces SketchUp project.
For more on my courses and research please follow these links:
- Architecture Across Cultures
- Great Spaces: An Introduction to Urban Design
- Memorable Cities
- Architecture from Renaissance to Revolution
- The Poetry of Architecture
- Architecture as Cultural Encounter
- Tutorial: Foundational Texts in Architecture
- Art and Politics in Paris: Reading Power in Space and Image (team-taught w/J. Germann)
- Russian Art and Architecture (team-taught with C. Kramer)
Research interests:
- French and Russian architecture, 18th-19th centuries
- Architect and theorist Viollet-le-Duc (1814-79)
- Architecture as a medium of cultural encounter
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