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Daniel M. Abramson |
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Associate Professor of Art and Art History
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Art & Art History Department
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| Degrees: |
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Ph.D. Harvard University; M.A. Harvard University; A.B. Princeton University |
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History of European and American Architecture, 1700 to the present
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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (London) Senior Fellowship, 2008, Newhouse Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship, Wellesley College, 2007-2008, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2007-2008, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2004-2005, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Fellowship, Harvard University, 2004-2005, Mellon Research Semester Fellowship, Tufts University, 2004, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Grant, 1998-99, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1998 |
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daniel.abramson@tufts.edu
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| Scholarship & Research: |
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Modern architecture; architecture of finance; eighteenth-century British architecture; obsolescence in twentieth-century architecture; monuments, memorials, and public art.
Building the Bank of England: Money, Architecture, Society, 1694-1942, Yale University Press, 2005.
Skyscraper Rivals: The AIG Building and the Architecture of Wall Street, Princeton Architectural Press, 2001.
“History: The Long Eighteenth Century,” in special section on “Learning from Interdisciplinarity,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 64/4 (December 2005), pp. 419-21.
“Commercialization and Backlash in Late Georgian Architecture,” in Articulating British Classicism: New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Architecture, edited by Barbara Arciszewska and Elizabeth McKellar, Ashgate Press, 2004.
“Mary Miss and the Art of Engagement,” in Mary Miss, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004.
“Obsolescence: Notes Towards a History,” Praxis: Journal of Writing + Building 5 (2003), special issue on “Architecture After Capitalism,” pp. 106-112.
“Make History, Not Memory,” Harvard Design Magazine (Fall 1999), special issue on “Constructions of Memory,” pp. 78-83.
“The Bank of England,” in John Soane, Architect: Master of Space and Light, edited by Margaret Richardson and MaryAnne Stevens, London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1999. Reprinted as “Hidden assets: Soane at the Bank of England, Architecture Today 102 (October 1999), pp. 38-49.
"Architecture,” in An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832, edited by Iain McCalman, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
"A History of Bank Architecture: The House, the Hall, the Temple, the Vault, and the Office,” in Bank and Architecture: Banque Bruxelles Lambert – Geneva, Mario Botta – Architect, with other essays by Vincent Scully, Francesco dal Co, and Terence Riley, Milano and Geneva: Electa and Banque Bruxelles Lambert (Suisse) SA, 1998.
"Maya Lin and the 1960s: Monuments, Time Lines, and Minimalism," Critical Inquiry 22/4 (Summer 1996), pp. 679-709. Reviewed in The Wilson Quarterly 21/1 (Winter 1997), pp. 132-133
"C. R. Cockerell and 'The Architectural Progress of the Bank of England,'" Architectural History 37 (1994), pp. 112-129.
“Tufts University,” Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston, ed. Keith N. Morgan, Oxford University Press, in press.
Review of David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi, Surface Architecture, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 63/4 (December 2004), pp. 569-70
“Herbert Baker,” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Review of Gillian Darley, John Soane: An Accidental Romantic; Ptolemy Dean, Sir John and the Country Estate; and David Watkin, ed., Sir John Soane: The Royal Academy Lectures, in Journal of Society of Architectural Historian 60/3 (September 2001), pp. 352-55.
Review of Ptolemy Dean, Sir John Soane and the Country Estate, in Albion 33/1 (Spring 2001), pp. 135-36.
Catalogue of 42 Bank of England drawings, plans, views, etc., in John Soane, Architect: Master of Space and Light, edited by Margaret Richardson and MaryAnne Stevens, London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1999.
Catalogue entries nos. 43-55 (on John Soane's Bank of England), London - World City, 1800-1840, exhibition catalogue edited by Celina Fox, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992, pp. 261-68. Also published as Metropole London: Macht und Glanz einer Weldstadt, Essen: Villa Hügel, 1992.
“’Temples of Mammon: The Architecture of Banking' and 'John Soane and the Bank of England,'" book review, AA Files 23 (Summer 1992), pp. 99-101.
"Alvin Boyarsky Memorial Exhibition, Architectural Association," review, Performance [London] 64 (Summer 1991), pp. 57-58.
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