Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 1967
Research Interests:
Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance architecture and urbanism
Problems of temporality in architecture and historiography
Problematics of architectural authorship
The origins of perspective
Sample Courses:
Architect, Patron and Society in the Early Renaissance
Architectural Problems of Renaissance Classicism
Architectonic Culture of Late Medieval Italy
Public Space in Early Modern Italy
Gothic Architecture: Theory and methods of interpretation
on-site summer course in Florence, architecture and urbanism 11-15th centuries
Selected Publications:
"Why the Pazzi Chapel is not by Brunelleschi." Casabella, (June 1996): 58-77 (bilingual).
Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art and Power in Early
Modern Florence. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1997.
"Architecture and Music Reunited: A New Reading of
Dufay's Nuper Rosarum Flores and the Cathedral of Florence," Renaissance
Quarterly (2001): 740-75.
"Desedimenting Time: Gothic Column/paradigm
Shifter," RES 40 (2001): 5-27.
Trachtenberg, Marvin and Isabelle Hyman.Architecture from Prehistory to
Postmodernity, 2nd edition.New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002.
Selected Honors:
Fellowships and Grants:
National Endowment for the Humanities.
Guggenheim Foundation.
Villa I Tatti.
Graham Foundation.
Awards:
Alice Davis Hitchcock Prize of the Society of Architectural Historians, 1974, 1999.
Charles Rufus Morey Prize of the College Art Association, 1999.
Guest editor of special issue of RES (40) "Desedimenting Time," 2001.