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Laura Hollengreen is a historian of medieval art and architecture, specializing in French Gothic work of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. After temporary teaching stints at UC Riverside, UC Berkeley, and the University of Arizona (in both the Art Department and the School of Architecture), she joined the University of Arizona as assistant professor in the School of Architecture in Fall 2000; she was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2006. While at Arizona, she served terms as the elected Chair of the Faculty of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture; chair of the interdisciplinary UA Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Committee; and Secretary and later President of the Association for Women Faculty. In her final year at Arizona, she was interim director of the School of Architecture. She moved to Georgia Tech as an associate professor in Fall 2009.
Educational Background
1985 - A.B., Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
1989 - M.A., History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
1998 - Ph.D., History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
Fields
Medieval Art, Architecture, and Urbanism
Cultures of Dwelling
Museum Design and Analysis
Urban Public Space
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medieval art, architecture, and urbanism; medieval cathedrals and cathedral decoration; medieval Jewish communities; museums and cultures of display; history and theory of urban public space; cultures of dwelling ]]>Recent Courses
Arch 2111/4105: History I: History of Architecture, Ancient to the Eighteenth Century
Arch 4823/8823 LH: Special Topics: Museums: History, Theory, Design
Arch 4823/8823 LH2: Special Topics: How Do We Dwell? Histories and Theories of Environmental Behavior and Design
Courses in development
Arch 4823/8823 LH3: Special Topics: The Physics and Metaphysics of Premodern Architecture
]]>Although her research is centered on the Middle Ages, Dr. Hollengreen teaches the full range of architectural history at both the introductory and advanced levels. In seminars exploring such topics as the history, theory, and design of museums, conceptions of urban public space, and histories and theories of dwelling, she provides students with an opportunity to explore deeply within architecture and broadly beyond it. At the University of Arizona, she played an instrumental role in reformulating professional students’ preparation for Capstone thesis projects by designing a course focused on initiating and documenting thesis research. She has advised students on theses dealing with a wide range of issues including museum display, nomadism, design for the blind and autistic, surfaces in the contemporary Islamic city, the typology of Hindu temples, and urban health.
PhD committees
at Georgia Tech
Carina Antúnez (School of Architecture), “Style as a Frame: A Historical and Critical Study of the Cognitive Basis of Style”
Hyun Kyung Lee (School of Architecture), “Latent Visuality: The ‘New Vision’ in Mid-Twentieth Century American Architecture”
at the University of Arizona
Carmen Ortiz Henley (Department of English), “Female Piety and Religious Practice in Early Modern England”
Research Groups
Graduate History, Theory, Criticism group
Recent Publications
Edited Translation, or the Transmission of Culture, Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 13 (Brepols, 2008).