Mark Jarzombek is a US-born author and architectural historian, and (since 1995) Director of the History Theory Criticism Section of the Department of Architecture at MIT, Cambridge MA, USA. Jarzombek received his architectural training at the ETH Zurich, where he graduated in 1980. From there he went to MIT, where he received his doctorate in 1986. He taught at Cornell University until 1994. He has written on a wide variety of subjects, from Renaissance architecture to contemporary criticism. He was a 2005 Fellow at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA) , a 2002 Fellow at the Canadian Center for Architecture (Montreal) a 1993 Resident Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and a 1986 Post-doctoral Fellow at the J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Humanities and Art (Santa Monica). United States may refer to: Places: United States of America SS United States, the fastest ocean liner ever built. ... Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT, MapúaTech or simply Mapúa) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila. ... The ETH Zurich, often called Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, is a science and technology university in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. ... Cornell redirects here. ... The Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, usually referred to simply as The Clark, is an art museum with a large and varied collection located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. ... Fuld Hall The Institute for Advanced Study is a private institution in Princeton Township, New Jersey, U.S.A. (although it is not part of Princeton University), designed to foster pure cutting-edge research by scientists in a variety of fields without the complications of teaching or funding, or the... View of a building at the Getty Center, from the Central Garden. ...

Selection of writings

• On Leon Battista Alberti, His Literary and Aesthetic Theories (MIT Press, 1989)
• Designing MIT: The Architecture of William Welles Bosworth (Boston: Northeastern University Press, October 2004).
• The Psychologizing of Modernity: Art, Architecture and History (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
• Urban Heterology: Dresden and the Dialectics of Post-Traumatic History, Studies in Theoretical and Applied Aesthetics series, Volume 2 (Lund: Lund University, 2001).
• A Global History of Architecture, with Vikram Prakash and Francis D.K. Ching (New York: Wiley & Sons, August 2006)
• The Post-traumatic Turn and the Art of Walid Ra'ad and Krzystof Wodiczko: from Theory to Trope and Beyond, in Trauma and Visuality, Saltzman, Lisa and Eric Rosenberg, editors (University Press of New England, 2006)

External links

• MIT faculty Profile
• Shows Images from an MIT studio course
• A Lecture Jarzombek gave at Kentucky in 2006
• A Global History of Architecture