Alina Payne – Bartlett International Lecture Series

Plane and Simple: Architecture and the Seduction of Relief

Biography

Alina Payne is Paul E. Geier Director of Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and Alexander P. Misheff Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts of Sciences and in 2016 she was the Chaire du Louvre (Paris).

Previously, Alina taught at Oberlin College, the University of Toronto, and in 2006 she was awarded the Max Planck and Alexander von Humboldt Prize in the Humanities (2006-12). 

Alina is the author of books on renaissance and modern architectural history with an emphasis on the relationships between architecture and interdisciplinary studies. Her most recent publications iclude: From Ornament to Object: Genealogies of Architectural Modernism (Yale, 2012) and L’architecture parmi les arts: Materiaux, transfers et travail artistique à la renaissance. (Hazan/Louvre, 2016).  

Images: Alina Payne, courtesy of Harvard University.

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