Mark Jarzombek

Mark Jarzombek
Born	1954 United States
Education	ETH Zurich

Mark Jarzombek (born 1954) is a United States-born 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, United States.

Books

• On Leon Battista Alberti, 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)

External links

• Personal Homepage
• MIT faculty Profile
• Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative
• Office of (Un)certainty Research [O(U)R]