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A Campus of Houses: A University-Wide, Public Exhibit

On view across Brown’s campus is an exhibit of student work from Professor Itohan Osayimwese’s Fall 2021 course, Architecture of the House Through Space and Time. A Campus of Houses, coordinated by graduate students Pamudu Tennakoon and Dandan Xu...

Ella Comberg, BA’ 20 writes for Alumni Magazine and Hidden City Philadelphia

Ella Comberg has published two articles: one in the Brown Alumni Magazine, and one in Hidden City Philadelphia

Her piece about Jordan Carter ’12, “...

Professor Shaffer edits publication for the Smithsonian

HIAA Professor Holly Shaffer has edited the fifty-first issue of Ars Orientalis, published by the Freer and Sackler Galleries at Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, and the University of Michigan. 

The journal circulates...

Professor Osayimwese to speak at the 2022 SAH International Conference

The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) announces that Professor Itohan Osayimwese will deliver the 2022 Eduard F. Sekler Talk at the SAH 2022 Annual International...

Faculty Affiliate Stephen Houston speaks on Getty podcast

HIAA faculty affiliate, Professor Stephen Houston (Anthropology and HIAA, Director of Early Cultures), speaks on the latest installment of the Art + Ideas podcast, produced by the Getty. In this episode, recorded on January 18, 2022,...

Professor Osayimwese will co-direct NEH-funded project

HIAA Associate Professor, Itohan Osayimwese has received a $250,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to co-direct a project with David Rifkind, Professor and Director of the School of Architecture, Florida International University.

Architecture of the House: Spring Exhibit

Architecture of the House Through Space and Time, led by Professor Itohan Osayimwese in the Fall of 2021, studied the building type of the house throughout history in Mesopotamia, China, Japan, the Islamic world, the African diaspora, India, and...

Netherlandish Art Class Visits the MFA

On December 4, Professor Jeffrey Muller’s class, “Dutch and Flemish Art: Visual Culture of the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century,” paid a visit to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The course surveyed the paintings, sculptures, and...

Alexis Lowry, BA ‘07 receives Curatorial Leadership Fellowship

Alexis Lowry, Curator at the Dia Art Foundation in New York, has been named a 2022 Fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership. The program includes coursework led by...

Professor Neumann publishes on the Villa Wolf

Professor Dietrich Neumann’s latest book examines Mies van der Rohe’s first modern house in Guben (presently Gubin, Poland). Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Villa Wolf in Gubin: Geschichte und Rekonstruktion was published by DOM publishers. ...

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