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Joseph Clarke

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Art History

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  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Art History
  • Sidney Smith Hall, Department of Art History, 100 St. George Street, Room 6055, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G3, Canada

BIO

Historian of 19th- and 20th-century architecture. Clarke has been an architecture commentator on podcasts, radio shows, and CBC national television news, and has written for the Globe and Mail, Aeon, Triple Canopy, and Frieze, in addition to many scholarly journals. He is the author of Echo’s Chambers: Architecture and the Idea of Acoustic Space, an award-winning history of architectural acoustics. Before becoming a historian, he was trained as a designer and practiced architecture at Eisenman Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online

DEGREES

  • Ph.D.
    Yale University, New Haven, United States2014
  • M.Arch.
    University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, United States2006

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Visiting Scholar
    Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
  • Insight Grant
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
  • University of Toronto
    Learning & Education Advancement Fund Grant
  • Research Fellow
    Canadian Centre for Architecture

AVAILABILITY

  • Media enquiries

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • School of Cities

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