Mark Jarzombek

Mark Jarzombek is Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at MIT's School of Architecture and Planning. He was Associate Dean of the School from 2007 to 2014 and Interim Dean in 2014. He has taught at MIT since 1995, and has worked on a wide range of historical topics from the Renaissance to the modern. Jarzombek, who began his studies at the University of Chicago, received his architectural Diploma in 1980 from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1986. He was a CASVA fellow (1985), Post-doctoral Resident Fellow at the J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Humanities and Art, Santa Monica, California (1986), a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (1993), at the Canadian Center for Architecture (2001) and at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (2005). He has worked extensively on nineteenth and twentieth century topics and on the history and theory of architecture. He has just published a textbook entitled A Global History of Architecture (Wiley Press, 2006) with co-author Vikram Prakash with the noted illustrator Francis D.K. Ching. Jarzombek authored Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective (Wiley Press) as well as other books and articles. Jarzombek teaches a range of courses at the graduate and Ph.D. level in the History Theory Criticism program (HTC) of the Department of Architecture .