Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Architectural History/Historic Preservation
Dissertations Completed by Subject, 2007

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Apelian, Colette, "Negotiating the City: Conserving Fez, Morocco, during the French Protectorate (1912–1956)" (UCLA, I. Bierman-McKinney)

Barteet, C. Cody, "Colonial Contradictions in the Casa de Montejo and Mérida, Yucatán: Space, Society, and Self-Representation at the Edge of Viceregal Mexico" (SUNY Binghamton, K. Barzman)

Çelik, Zeynep, "Kinaesthetic Impulses: Aesthetic Experience, Bodily Knowledge, and Pedagogical Practises in Germany, 1871–1918" (MIT, M. Jarzombek)

Dillon, Jennifer, "Modernity, Sanitation, and the Public Bath: Berlin, 1896–1933, as Archetype" (Duke, A. Wharton)

Eggebeen, Janna, "Airport Age: Architecture and Modernity in America" (CUNY, R. Bletter)

Hunting, Mary Anne, "Edward Durell Stone: Perception and Criticism" (CUNY, K. Murphy)

Hyde, Timothy Worrall, “An Architectural Constitution: Law, Planning, and Architecture in Cuba, 1937–1959” (Harvard, N. Levine)

Israel, Janna, "Doge Cristoforo Moro and Patronage in Renaissance Venice" (MIT, D. Friedman)

Kaukas Havenhand, Lucinda, "Ideas as Interiors: Interior Design in the United States, 1930–1965" (Virginia Commonwealth, R. Hobbs)

Keller, William, "Urban Architecture for Community and Spectacle: The Roofed Arena in the United States, 1890–1969" (Delaware, D. Stillman)

Lasner, Matthew Gordon, “No Lawn to Mow: Co-ops, Condominiums, and the Revolution in Collective Homeownership in Metropolitan America, 1881–1973” (Harvard, M. Crawford)

Lawrence, Amanda Reeser, “Remaining Modern: The Architecture of James Stirling, 1955–77” (Harvard, K. M. Hays)

Lieber, Jeffrey, "Waging Total Peace: Architecture and Aesthetics, circa 1958–1963" (Michigan, A. Potts)

Maulsby, Lucy, "Politics and Persuasion: The Architectural and Urban Transformation of Milan under Fascism, 1922–1943" (Columbia, R. Middleton)

McMorrough II, John Doyle, “Signifying Practices: The Pre-Texts of Post-Modern Architecture” (Harvard, K. M. Hays)

Michael, Vincent, "Preserving the Future: Historic Districts in New York City and Chicago in the Late Twentieth Century" (UIC, R. Bruegmann)

Michailidis, Melanie, "Landmarks of the Persian Renaissance: Monumental Funerary Architecture in Iran and Central Asia in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries" (MIT, N. Rabbat)

Miljački, Ana, “The Optimum Aesthetic: Environment, Lifestyle, and Utopia in the Postwar Czech Architectural Discourse” (Harvard, K. M. Hays)

Mohr, Paula Ann, "Artificial Constructions and Object Lessons in a Sacred Landscape: The Art and Architecture of Central Park, 1858–1880" (Virginia, R. G. Wilson, L. Nelson, M. McInnis, F. Kowsky)

Mulder, Karen L., "New Rationales for Neues Glas: Architectonic Considerations in Postwar German Glass Installations" (Virginia, R. G. Wilson, L. Nelson, L. Bouchard, V. Raguin)

Musto, Jeanne, "Byzantium in Bavaria: Art, Architecture, and History between Empiricism and Invention in the Post-Napoleonic Era" (Bryn Mawr, C. Hertel, D. Kinney)

Redensek, Jeanette, "Manufacturing Gemeinschaft: Architecture, Tradition, and the Sociology of Community in Germany, 1890–1920" (CUNY, R. Bletter)

Skelton, Kimberley, "Planning Anew: The English Country House and Social Identity in the 1650s" (Yale, S. Isenstadt)

Stephenson, Anne, "Rebuilding Bungalows: Home Improvement and the Historic Chicago Bungalow Initiative" (Chicago, K. Taylor)

Szczesny-Adams, Christy M., "Cosmopolitan Design in the Upper Midwest: The NineteenthCentury Architecture of Edward Townsend Mix" (Virginia, R. G. Wilson, D. Bluestone, L. Nelson, P. Barolsky)

Waraich, Saleema, "The Ramifications of Ramparts: The Mughal Forts of Lahore, Pakistan, and Delhi, India" (UCLA, R. Brown)

Wheeler, Katherine Jean, "The Reception and Study of Renaissance Architecture in Great Britain, 1890–1914" (MIT, M. Jarzombek)