Architectural Studies alumna, Angela Estevez, is Business Strategy and Communications Director at Architecture Research Office (ARO).

HIAA alum, Rebecca Barron, Director of Preservation at Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Barron works at Taliesin West, a studio and home developed by Wright in Scottsdale, Arizona.

HIAA undergraduate alum, Peter Shanahan, joined Jones Architecture as Project Designer in 2024. In 2023, Shanahan received his M.Arch. from the Rhode Island School of Design.

HIAA undergraduate alum, Ian Callender, is a designer with SEGD (Society for Experiential Graphic Design). Callender is a New York City-based artist and designer exploring the intersection of the built environment and digital technologies.

Brown alum, Rhea Stark, is a PhD student in the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Columbia University. Stark specializes in Islamic art.

Undergraduate alum, Jeremy Lee Wolin, is a PhD candidate in History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University.

HIAA undergraduate concentrator, Anna Gasha, is currently a PhD candidate at Columbia University, studying Historic Preservation.

HIAA graduate students will be presenters and moderators at the Society for Architectural Historians in Atlanta from April 30-May 4, 2025.

The Fellowship Committee of NESAH has announced Yannick Etoundi as the recipient of the 2025 John Coolidge Research Fellowship.

PhD Alumni Emily Monty, now a Judith Harris Murphy Assistant and Professor of Early Modern European Art at the University of Kansas was featured in the Kress Foundation Department of Art History newsletter.

Jeffrey Moser Publishes "Countless Sands: Medieval Buddhists and Their Environments" (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2025). Co-edited with Jason Protass (Brown University, Religious Studies).

2nd year PhD Student Lia Robinson published an article exploring the relationship between live video synthesis and identity formation through the multisensory environment of Shigeko Kubota's Riverrun-Video Water Poem (1972).

Professor Anthony Bogues and Graduate student Yannick Etoundi premiere documentary, "Unfinished Conversations," in accompaniment of the exhibition "In Slavery's Wake" at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

“In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, looks beyond the United States to tell a global story. Initiated by Affiliated Professor and CSSJ Director Anthony Bogues, assisted by HIAA graduate student, Yannick Etoundi.

Graduate student Mohadeseh Salari Sardari receives Pembroke Center Steinhaus/Zission Research Grant

What is the future of the history and art of the distant past? For decades, art and architectural historians have discussed declining interest in the study of topics prior to the modern era and the growing emphasis among emerging scholars and in current undergraduate curricula on modern and contemporary art.

Lecture on urban-rural architectural revitalization in Hong Kong.

Are you enrolled or planning to enroll in an architecture course this semester?

In our ongoing effort to nurture more inclusive communities in and through the study of the history of art and the history of architecture, the Department of the History of Art & Architecture at Brown University is actively seeking PhD applicants from widely different backgrounds.

Read this book review referencing Professor Itohan Osayimwese's chapter, “Afro-Caribbean Migration and Detention at Ellis Island,” published in "Architecture against Democracy: Aesthetics, Nationalism, and Power," 140-62, edited by Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman for University of Minnesota Press, 2024.

A tropical menagerie set in a lush landscape surrounds almost imperceptible human characters and architectural structures in the eight tableaux of the "Old Indies", a Baroque tapestry from the French Royal Factory of the Gobelins.

Sponsored by the Department of the History of Art and Architecture and the Brown Arts Institute, we welcome you to participate in the second installment of IGNITE events in the History of Art and Architecture Department, a two-day symposium celebrating Leo Villareal's luminous art installation at The Lindemann Performing Arts Center, "Infinite Composition".

Inspired by Chinese handscrolls and NASA film of the moon’s surface, senior Logan Tullai used an 1800s technique to lead a community art project on campus on 60-foot-long swaths of silk.

Professor Anthony Bogues will be awarded a Doctor of Literature (DLit) (honoris causa) by the University of London at this year's graduation ceremony.

A National Endowment for the Humanities grant will enable Brown Professor Dietrich Neumann to develop a traveling exhibition on the long underrecognized African American painter.

Please join our department as we celebrate the careers and accomplishments of Professors Sheila Bonde and Evelyn Lincoln this Friday, May 24th from 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm at the Providence Art Club.

On Friday, May 17th, senior architecture concentrators will open an exhibition of their work at 271 Thayer Street. Refreshments will be provided; all are welcome!

Honors students in the Department of the History of Art & Architecture will present their theses/capstones. Reception to follow; all are welcome!