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Martha Pollak Department of Art History (M/C 201)
Present PositionProfessor of Art History, University of Illinois, Chicago; since 2002 Education
Current Research Project"Private Space: House and Home in Early Modern Europe" "Cities at War: Baroque Fortifications and Military Urbanism" Awards and Fellowships
PublicationsBooksCities at War in Early Modern Europe (New York and Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, in press) Turin 1560-1680: Urban Design, Military Culture and the Creation of the Absolutist Capital (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1991). Military Architecture, Cartography and the Representation of the Early Modern European City: a Checklist of the Treatises on Fortification at the Newberry Library (Chicago, Newberry Library and University of Chicago Press, 1991). The Education of the Architect: Historiography, Urbanism, and the Growth of Architectural Knowledge, editor (Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T. Press, 1997). Italian and Spanish Books: Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries, The Mark Millard Architectural Collection (Washington, National Gallery of Art, and New York, George Braziller, 2000) Articles and Chapters in Books"The 1615 Plan of Turin," Piante di città, ed. Marco Folin (Franco Angeli editore, Milan), in press. “Architecture,” Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, Jonathan Dewald, ed. (New York, 2004), 1:88-92. “The Theatrum Statuum Sabaudiae (1682) as Military Historical Atlas,” Atlas militaires manuscrits europeens: XVIe-XVIIIe siecles--formes, contenu, context et vocations, Isabelle Warmoes, Emilie d’Orgeix and Charles van den Heuvel, eds. (Paris, 2003). “Torino capitale dei Savoia e il Piemonte,” in Storia dell'architettura italiana: Il Secondo Cinquecento, Claudia Conforti and Richard Tuttle, eds. (Milan, Electa , 2001), pp. 266–287. “Representations of the City in Siege Views of the Seventeenth Century: The War of Military Images and Their Production,” in City Walls, James Tracy, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 605–646. “Military Architecture and Cartography in the Design of the Early Modern City,” in Envisioning the City: Six Studies in Urban Cartography, David Buisseret, ed. (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1998), pp. 109–124. “The Architecture of Power and Dynastic Edification: Turin’s Contrada di Po as Theatre and Stradone,” in Henry A. Millon and Susan Scott Munshower, eds., An Architectural Progress in the Renaissance and Baroque: Sojourns In and Out of Italy; Essays in Architectural History Presented to Hellmut Hager (University Park, Penn State University Press, 1992), pp. 478–96. “The Pope’s Two Palaces: Poetics and Political Allusion in the Ideal Renaissance City,” Acts of the XXVIIth International Conference of the History of Art: Lart et les revolutions, Strassburg (1989), 1992, vol. 7, Sixten Ringbom, ed., pp. 107–120. “La Piazza Reale a Turin: du bastion la place rsidentielle,” VRBI 11 (1989): 51-70. “From Castrum to Capital: Autograph Maps and Planning Studies of Turin, 1615–1673,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 47 (1988): 263–280. Published also in Cesare de Seta and Jacques Le Goff, eds., Le citta e le mura, (Bari-Rome, Laterza, 1989), pp. 153–70. “Storia di citta: testi, piante, palinsesto,” review essay of La citta nella Storia d’Italia, Quaderni Storici 67 (1988): 223–256. “The Other Face of the Medal: Turin, 1673,” Art Bulletin 69 (1987): 256–263. Publications: Shorter Articles and Reviews"The Michigan Avenue Street Wall," Giornale dell'Architettura (October 2008) "M*A*P*S: Finding Our Place in the World," Giornale dell'Architettura (May, 2008) "La breve storia di Eero Saarinen," exhibition at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Giornale dell'Architettura (January 2008) "Un 'grattacielo' ma consuma come un edificio di 5 piani," the US Federal Buillding in San Francisco by Morphosis Architects, Giornale dell'Architettura (January 2008) "L'anti-architettura in una casa Matta," Gordon Matta-Clark at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Il Giornale dell'Arte (March 2008) "Castel Sant' Angelo: a Military Itinerary Through Rome and the Speculum" Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae, ed. Rebecca Zorach, http://speculum.lib.uchicago.edu (October 2007) Interview with Barry Bergdoll, Curator of Architecture at MoMA," Giornale dell’Architettura (2006) "Zaha Hadid at the Guggenheim Museum in New York," Giornale dell’Architettura (2006) "Santiago Calatrava at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, Giornale dell’Architettura (2005) Review of Toby Maguire, Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy: Political Culture and the Thirty Years’ War (Cambridge, 2002), Journal of Modern History 77(2005):451-4. “The New Museum of Modern Art in New York,” Giornale dell’Architettura (2004) Review of John B. Scott, Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin (Chicago, 2003)Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 63 (2004): 555-61. “Il grattacielo, da solista a ballerina di fila,” Giornale dell’Architettura 15 (2004):18 (review of Tall Buildings, exhibition curated by Guy Nordenson and Terence Riley, Museum of Modern Art, New York, July-October, 2004) “Tutta Chicago si riflette nel Parco del Millenio,” Giornale dell’architettura 22 (2004):32 (review of the new Millenium Park in Chicago) “La patina non si addice al curtain wall,” Giornale dell’architettura 15(2004):18 (conservation practices for skyscrapers in the USA) “David Adler,” Giornale dell’Architettura, 6 (2003):15 (exhibition at Art Institute of Chicago) Review of Rosemarie San Juan, Rome: a City Out of Print (New York, 2001), Renaissance Quarterly 56 (2003)): 457-9. Review of Modena:1598 , ed. Claudia Conforti et al. (Milan, 1998), Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 60 (2001): 217-19. Review of Giovanni Romano, ed., Torino 1675-1699: Strategie e conflitti del Barocco (Turin, 1993), Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 54 (1995): 498-9. Review of Franco Panzini, Per i piaceri del popolo: l'evoluzione del giardino pubblico in Europa dalle origini al XX secolo (Bologna, 1993), Journal of Garden History 15 (1995): 52-4. Review essay of Antoine Picon, Claude Perrault ou La Curiosité d'un classique (Paris, 1988); French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment (1988; transl. Martin Thom (Cambridge, 1992); L'Invention de l'ingenieur moderne: l'Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées, 1747-1851 (Paris, 1992); Charles Perrault, Mémoires de ma vie, with an introduction by Antoine Picon (Paris, 1993), Design Book Review 34 (1994): 58-63. Review of Charles Burroughs, From Sign to Design: Environmental Process and Reform in Early Renaissance Rome (Cambridge, Mass., 1990), Church History 63 (1994): 93-4. Review of Robert Fogelson, America's Armories: Architecture, Society and Public Order (Cambridge, Mass. 1989), Journal of Architectural Education 45 (1991): 60-2. Review of H. A. Meek, Guarino Guarini (New Haven, 1988), Art Bulletin 71 (1989): 699-700. Review of Christopher Duffy, The Fortress in the Age of Vauban and Frederick the Great,1660-1789 (London, 1985), Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 46 (1987): 418-9. Review of Enrico Guidoni and Angela Marino Guidoni, Storia dell'urbanistica: Il Seicento (Rome, 1979), and Storia dell'urbanistica: Il Cinquecento (Rome, 1982), Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 46 (1987): 181-3. Review of Pietro C. Marani, L'architettura fortificata di Leonardo da Vinci (Florence, 1984), Renaissance Quarterly 39 (1986): 749-52. Review of Joseph Rykwert, The First Moderns: the Architects of the Eighteenth-Century (Cambridge, Mass. 1980), Journal of Modern History 58 (1986): 249-51. Selected Papers and Lectures"French and Italian Treatises on Baroque Military Architecture," London (Warburg Institute, London University), 1991 "Military Architecture and Cartography in the Design of the Baroque City," Chicago (The Newberry Library; the Italian Cultural Institute), 1991 "Geometry of Power: the Theory and Practice of Citadels," Paris (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme), 1993 "Geometry of Power: Theory and Representation in Seicento Urban Design," Augsburg (Universität Augsburg), 1993; Munich (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte), 1993 "The City as Trophy: Siege Views in Seventeenth-Century Cartography," Paris (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme), 1994; Minneapolis (University of Minnesota, Center for Early Modern History), 1995 "Theatres of War," Paris (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme), 1995 "Urban Identity, Dynastic Entries, and the Triumphal City Gate," 1995, San Francisco (The Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference) "Urban Identity, Dynastic Entries, and the Triumphal City Gate," 1995, San Francisco (The Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference) "The Role of Military Cartography and Education in Early Modern Urban Design", 1998, Washington, D. C. (Folger Library) “Paris: Aspects of Seventeenth-Century Urbanism and Fortification”, 1999, Chicago (Chicago Humanities Festival) “I tratattisti italiani”, 2001, Turin (Italy), Politecnico di Torino “Military Urbanism and Baroque Fortifications,” 2001, Haifa (Israel), Technion Israel Institute of Technology; Nicosia (Cyprus), American Center for Archaeological Research and United Nations Special Projects “The Theatrum Statuum Sabaudiae: Cartography and Military Urbanism,” Conference on the “The Cartographic Albums of the 17th Century,” 2002, Paris (Musée des Plans Reliefs) "Baroque Fortifications and Military Urbanism," 2007, American Academy in Rome (Italy) and Turin (Italy), Politecnico di Torino "Pyrotechnics and the Unfolding of Military Urbanism," Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference, April 2008, Chicago "In Praise of M*A*P*S" Festival of Maps, Symposium, UIC Special Collections, March, 2008, Chicago Related Professional Activities and AffiliationsS. Barbour Visiting Professor, Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), Haifa, 2001 Senior Lecturer, Courtauld Institute, University of London, 1990 - 91 Research Associate, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris 1987, 1992 Convenor and chair, War Studies Group, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris; symposia titles: 1993, The City at War, 1500-1750 1994, Embattled Cities, 1500-1750 1995, Theatres of War, 1500-1750 Curator, "Military Architecture, Cartography and the Representation of the Early Modern City," exhibition held at the Newberry Library, Chicago, October-December 1991 Board of Directors, Society of Architectural Historians, 1997-2000 Book Review Editor, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2004 - 8 Chair, Alice Hitchcock Prize Committee, awarded yearly by the Society of Architectural Historians for best published book in the discipline Editorial Board, Journal of Architectural Education, 1988-1993; 1996-1999 Reviewer of Prospective Publications and Fellowship Applications: University of Chicago Press, MIT Press, Graham Foundation for the Visual Arts, American Council of learned Societies, The Art Bulletin, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, The Journal of Architectural Education, University of Nicosia (Cyprus) Foreign Correspondent, Il Giornale d’Architettura, monthly professional journal, published in Turin (Italy), since 2003 |
