After earning her PhD in Contemporary Art History from the Sorbonne, Barbara Stehle worked at several museums in the US and Europe, including the Centre George Pompidou in Paris and the Zurich Kunsthaus in Switzerland. In 2014 she gave a TEDx Talk focusing on "places of unbearable memories" – including the site of the Twin Towers collapse in New York and a Khmer Rouge torture chamber in Cambodia – and addressing architecture as a means of revealing human emotion and the durability of the human spirit.
Academic areas of interest
Based in New York City, Stehle curates, writes and lectures on the visual arts and architecture. Her research on Max Beckmann has been published in major exhibition catalogues, and as a historian of modernism, she is a passionate advocate for the importance of postmodernism.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
LAEL 1017-01 - HISTORY OF INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE I: 1400-1850
LevelUndergraduate
UnitInterior Architecture
Subject Liberal Arts Elective
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatLecture
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
LAEL 1017-01
HISTORY OF INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE I: 1400-1850
LevelUndergraduate
UnitInterior Architecture
Subject Liberal Arts Elective
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatLecture
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: W | 1:10 PM - 4:10 PMInstructor(s): Alper Besen, Barbara StehleLocation(s): College Building, Room 301Enrolled / Capacity: 20Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course will examine personalities working in Europe and in North America as well as non-western regions in the period 1400 to 2009. Areas of study will include an examination of interior architecture related issues that will be studied in the context of their social, political, technological, and economic circumstances, as they pertain to the design culture of the period. Special emphasis will be given to interior additions and renovations and other interventions. Other areas of study will include the development of architectural drawing, and the way in which designs often evolved through committees, or ongoing consultations among patrons, designers, administrators, and scholars. Attention will also be given to design theory, and the doctrines relating to site, orientation, proportion, decorum, and the commercial design market. A general background in the history of art and design is desirable but not mandatory.
