Harry Mallgrave

  • Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Life Details and Awards

  • Architectural Practice, 1970s
  • PhD University of Pennsylvania, 1983
  • Research Fellow, Getty Research Institute, 1984-1985
  • Architecture Editor, Texts & Documents Series, Getty Research Institute, 1986-2001
  • Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, Society of Architectural Historians, 1997
  • Scholar, Canadian Center for Architecture, 2002
  • Scholar, Clark Art Institute, 2003
  • Honorary Fellow, Royal Institute of British Architects, 2012
  • Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2004-2014

Education

Ph.D. Hon FRIBA

Publications

Books

Building Paradise: Episodes in Paradisiacal Thinking (Routledge, 2021)

From Object to Experience: The New Culture of Architectural Design (Bloomsbury, 2018)

The Companion to the History of Architecture, General Editor (Wiley Blackwell, 2017)

  • Vol, 1: Renaissance and Baroque Architecture, ed. Alina Payne
  • Vol. 2: 18th Century Architecture, ed. Caroline van Eck and Sigrid de Jong
  • Vol. 3: 19th Century Architecture, ed. M. Bressani & C. Contandriopoulos
  • Vol. 4: 20th Century Architecture, ed. D. Leatherbarrow

Architecture and Embodiment (Routledge, 2013)

Introduction to Architectural Theory (with David Goodman; Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

Otto Wagner (Electa, 2010; Ital.)

An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870 (Blackwell, 2005)

An Anthology from 1871-2005 (with Christina Contandriopoulos; Blackwell, 2010)

Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey 1673-1968 (Cambridge, 2005)

Gottfried Semper: Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts (Getty, 2004)

Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection: Northern European Books (Nat. Gallery of Art, 1998)

Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century (Yale, 1996)

German trans. Gottfried Semper: Ein Architekt des 19. Jahrhunderts (Zurich, 2001)

Empathy, Form, and Space: Problems in German Aesthetics (with E. Ikonomou; Getty, 1996)

Otto Wagner: Reflections on the Raiment of Modernity (Getty, 1993)

Gottfried Semper: The Four Elements of Architecture and Other Writings (Cambridge, 1989)

Otto Wagner: Modern Architecture (Getty, 1988)

Translations

J. J. Winckelmann: History of the Art of Antiquity (Getty, 2005)

Walter Curt Behrendt: The Victory of the New Style (Getty, 2000)