Rate My Professor Mark Jarzombek

His research explores global architectural history, theoretical foundations of the discipline, modernity from the tangent, digital and global imaginaries, luxury trade and economies in the first millennium CE, and post-traumatic urban histories such as Dresden. Key publications include 'The Psychologizing of Modernity: Art, Architecture, and History' (2000), 'A Global History of Architecture' co-authored with Vikramaditya Prakash and Francis D.K. Ching (2006), 'Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective' (2013), 'Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age' (2016), 'The Long Millennium: Affluence, Architecture and its Dark Matter Economy' (2023), and 'Architecture Constructed: Notes on a Discipline' (2023). Jarzombek co-founded the Global Architecture History Teaching Collaborative, supported by a $3.5 million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant, and the Office of (Un)Certainty Research. He taught the first MOOC on architectural history via edX, reaching over 100,000 learners worldwide. Fellowships include CASVA (1985), J. Paul Getty Center (1986), Institute for Advanced Study Princeton (1993), Canadian Centre for Architecture (2001), Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (2005), and American Academy in Rome (2018). He was named a 2026 Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians.