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

Architectural History/Urbanism/Historic Preservation
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2022

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Copplestone, Louis, "Monasteries, Mountains and Maṇḍalas: Buddhist Architecture and Imagination in Medieval Eastern India" (Harvard University, J. Kim, Y. Lippit)

Flaksman, Catarina, "A Country that Builds: Architecture Exhibitions and the Politics of Culture in Brazil" (Harvard University, P. del Real) 

Forniotis, Brittany, "The Architecture of Healing: Hospitals in the Mediterranean (600–1700) (Duke University, S. Galletti)

Gittleman, Elena, "Second Act: Legacies of Ancient Theater in Middle Byzantine Visual Culture (ca. 843–1204)" (Bryn Mawr College, A. Walker, H. King)

Horowitz, Sarah, "Designing Postwar American Performing Arts Centers, 1955-1971" (Boston University, D. Abramson)

Kylindreas, Miltiadis, "Building up the Classical Past: The Politics of Architectural Reconstruction in Modern Greece" (Emory University, B. Wescoat)

Masgras, Alexandra, "Designing Modern Buildings and Bodies: Eugenic Architecture in Romania, 1920–44" (Duke University, P.B.Jaskot, A.J. Wharton)

McShane Lodwick, Leslie, "Architectures of Education: School Construction Systems Development in California, 1961-69" (University of California, Santa Cruz, A. Narath)

Menéndez, Pereda, "Making and Experiencing Inca Sacredness: The Architecture of the Coricancha from the Inca Empire to the Viceroyalty of Peru" (University of California, Los Angeles, S. Nair)

Stringer, Bryan, “Health Centers Come out of the Cellar”: The United States Public Health Service and the Design of Public Health Centers in Post War America" (Boston University, D. Abramson)