Designing MIT: The Architecture of William Welles Bosworth (Boston: Northeastern University Press, October 2004), 159 pages.

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Urban Heterology: Dresden and the Dialectics of Post-Traumatic History, volume 2 in the Studies in Theoretical and Applied Aesthetics series, (Lund: Lund University, Spring 2001), 92 pages.

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The Psychologizing of Modernity: Art, Architecture and History (Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 311 pages.

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On Leon Battista Alberti: His Literary and Aesthetic Theories (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989), 258 pages.

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Krzysztof Wodiczko, City of Refuge: A 9/11 Memorial Mark Jarzombek and Mechtild Widrich eds. Contributions from John Rajchman, Lisa Saltzman, Kirk Savage, and Andrew Shanken (London, UK: Black Dog Publishing, 2009), 144 pages.

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Mark Jarzombek, Vikram Prakash and Francis D.K. Ching, A Global History of Architecture, (New York: Wiley & Sons, August 2006), 800 pages.

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Practice

Guangming City: International Urban Design competition for a city of a half a million people: China, Shenzhen Municipal Authority. March 2006. With Alexander D'Hooge and Yung Ho Chang. An invited competition participation.

Workshops

Collage - Method and Form

Boston Metabolism
(co-taught with Alexander D’Hooghe)

Mother’s House

Conferences

"Deus (e)X Historia," a conference exploring divinity and reason in the production of knowledge
(April 26-28, 2007): co-organized with faculty from HTC at MIT.

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"Architecture Race Academe: The Back Architect's Journey" (March 16-17, 2007): co-organized by Mark Jarzombek and Darian C. Hendricks

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"Architecture - History - Pedagogy Conference" (MIT, November 21-22, 2003) co-organized by Mark Jarzombek and Arindam Dutta

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"East-European Art and Architecture in the 20th century" (MIT, October 5-6, 2001) co-organized by Mark Jarzombek and Juliana Maxim.

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Seminars

Thinking About Architecture: In History and At Present

Beaux-Arts in America
(co-taught with Erika Naginski)

Global Modernity ... 1600

History of Postmodernism in Art and Architecture
(co-taught with Caroline Jones)

Traumatic Urbanism

Criticism

"Architecture: A Failed Discipline," Volume 19, 2009, pp 42-45.

"The Cunning of Architecture's Reason," Footprint (#1, Autumn 2007), pp. 31- 46.

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"The Post-traumatic Turn and the Art of Walid Ra'ad and Krzystof Wodiczko: From Theory to Trope and Beyond," Trauma and Visuality in Modernity, Saltzman, Lisa and Eric Rosenberg, editors (Lebanon, NH: Dartmouth College Press/University Press of New England, 2006)

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"Sights of Contention" posted on Appendx: Culture/Theory/Praxis, published and distributed annually by APPX.

"Haacke's Condensation Cube: The Machine in the Box and the Travails of Architecture," Thresholds 30: Microcosms (Summer 2005): 99-103.

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"Sustainability - Architecture: between Fuzzy Systems and Wicked Problems," Blueprints 21/1 (Winter 2003), pp. 6-9. or Turkish translation: "Surdurulebilir Mimarlik: Donuk Sistemlerle Habis Sorunlar Arasinda," Arredamento Mimarl?k, (Journal of Design Culture) no. 100+56 (March 2003): 38-39. also printed in English: "Sustainability, Architecture, and "Nature" Between Fuzzy Systems and Wicked Problems" Thresholds 26: denatured (Spring 2003): 54-56.

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"Critical or Post-critical?" Architectural Theory Review 7/1 (April, 2002): 149-151.

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"Bernhard Hoesli Collages/Civitas," Bernhard Hoesli: Collages, exh. cat. , Christina Betanzos Pint, editor (Knoxville: University of Tennessee, September 2001), 3-11.

"Dresden's New Synagogue and the Problematics of Bauen," Il Progetto 7 (Spring 2001): 287-33; Thresholds 20: Be-longing (Spring 2000): 20-25.

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"Molecules, Money and Design: The Question of Sustainability's Role in Architectural Academe," Thresholds 18: Design & Money (Spring 1999): 32-38. 

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History of Theory

"The Trans(formations) of Fame," PERSPECTA 37: Famous (2005): 11-17.

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"The Saturations of Self: Stern's (and Scully's) Role in (Stern's) History," Assemblage: A Critical Journal of Architecture and Design Culture No. 33, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, (1997): 7-21.

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"Recognizing Ruskin: Modern Painters and the Refractions of Self", Assemblage: A Critical Journal of Architecture and Design Culture, No. 32, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, (1997): 70-87.

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Global History Research

"Lalibela and Libanos: The King and the Hydro-Engineer of 13th Century Ethiopia," Construction Ahead (May-June 2007): 16-21.

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Blogitecture: Architecture on the Internet
The state and influence of architectural criticism in an age of digital networks. A panel discussion with Javier Arbona and Kazys Varnelis.

Modernism

"Working Out Johnson's Role in History" in Philip Johnson. The Constancy of Change, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009)

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""Good-Life Modernism" and Beyond. The American House in the 1950s and 1960s: A Commentary".'" The Cornell Journal of Architecture (Fall 1990): 76-93.

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German Modernism

"Disguised Visibilities: Dresden/"Dresden"" Log, (Fall 2005): 73-82.

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"Disguised Visibilities: Dresden/"Dresden," Memory and Architecture, Edited by Eleni Bastea (University of New Mexico Press, November 2004)

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"Joseph August Lux: Werkbund Promoter, Historian of a Lost Modernity,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 63/2 (June 2004): 202-219.

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"Framing the Museum," Museum der Moderne Salzburg [Museum of Modern Art Salzburg], Jury: Luigi Snozzi, Friedrich Achleitner, Hermann Czech, et. al. (Salzburg: Verlag Anton Pustet, May 2004).

"Joseph August Lux: Theorizing Early Amateur Photography - in Search of a Catholic Something.'" Centropa, Journal of European Architecture and Art 4/1 (January 2004): 80-87.

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"The Discourses of a Bourgeois Utopia, 1904-1908, and the Founding of the Werkbund," in Imagining Modern German Culture: 1889-1910, François Forster-Hahn, editor (University Press of New England, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996), 127-145.

Historiography

"A Prolegomena to Critical Historiography," Journal of Architectural Education 52/4 (May 1999): 197-206.

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"The Disciplinary Dislocations of (Architectural) History," The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (Winter 1999): 488-493.

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"Meditations on the Impossibility of a History of Modernity: Seeing Beyond Art's History," in The Education of the Architect: Historiography, Urbanism and the Growth of Architectural Knowledge, Martha Pollak, editor (Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: The MIT Press, 1997 Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 195-216.

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Renaissance

"The Structural Problematic of Leon Battista Alberti's De pictura," Renaissance Studies 4/3 (September 1990): 273-285.

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"Pilaster Play" Thresholds 28: concerto barocco (Winter 2005): 34-41.

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"Das Enigma von Leon Battista Albertis dissimulatio," in Theorie der Praxis: Leon Battista Alberti als Humanist und Theoritker der bildenden Künste, editors Kurt W. Forster and Hubert Locher (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1999), p. 203-216.

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April 23, 2009 in Murcia, Spain produced by Observatorio del Diseño y la Arquitectura