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Alina Payne

From Ornament to Object: Genealogies of Architectural Modernism

~This book has been long in the making. Although the questions that I raise here began to occupy me in the mid-1990s, when I was teaching at the University of Toronto, and were the subject of conferences and panels I organized starting with the College Art Association meeting in 1998, of talks I gave and courses I taught, the written trace of this work spanned a...

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Alina Payne

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Acknowledgments

This book has been long in the making. Although the questions that I raise here began to occupy me in the mid-1990s, when I was teaching at the University of Toronto, and were the subject of conferences and panels I organized starting with the College Art Association meeting in 1998, of talks I gave and courses I taught, the written trace of this work spanned a good decade. Indeed, the very first course I taught at Harvard in 1999 was on architecture and the discourse on ornament.

Naturally a project that has extended over a long period of time has incurred many debts. I wish to thank the institutions that gave me the resources, space, and time to pursue this work: the University of Toronto, Harvard University, the Max Planck Institute Florence and Max Planck Institute Rome, I Tatti (Florence), and the Institute of Advanced Study, Bucharest. I am grateful to the libraries and librarians at these institutions, as well as to the Fondation Le Corbusier, and the Bernard Berenson Archive. To the Max Planck and Alexander von Humboldt Foundations, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and Harvard University I am especially grateful for financial support. However, more than anything I owe a debt of gratitude to friends, colleagues, students, and family, who all helped in essential ways along the way—discussing, reading, responding, inviting me to speak or conduct research at their institutions, or just keeping me going when the task seemed too demanding and the climb too steep. To Neil Levine I owe heartfelt thanks for reading the manuscript with much sympathy and enthusiasm, diligently and attentively, with a sharp and critical eye, and for gently nudging me to confront issues I might otherwise have not addressed. Equally important were the two anonymous readers for Yale University Press, who attended to the manuscript with much care and whose wise and perceptive comments have made this a better book. David Kim was a lively, immensely stimulating, and generous partner in discussions, and a reader whose own early modern perspective reminded me of issues that traversed historical periods. I am grateful to Danny Abramson, Yve-Alain Bois, Scott Cohen, Joseph Connors, Daniela Del Pesco, Magdalena Droste, Aliki Economides, Sabine Frommel, Maurizio Ghelardi, Colleen Humer, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Elizabeth Kieven, Erika Kim, Phyllis Lambert, Cammie MacAttee, Harry Mallgrave, Marzia Marandola, Gulru Necipoglu, Elysse Newman, Morgan Ng, Jason Nguyen, Anca Oroveanu, David Pullins, Cara Rachele, Louise Rice, Myra Rosenfeld, Michelangelo Sabatino, Anne-Marie Sankovitch, Robin Schuldenfrei, Brigitte Shim, Matthew Sohm, Howard Sutcliffe, Nicola Suthor, Rachel Taylor, Marvin Trachtenberg, Nancy Troy, Wendy Walgate, Gerhard Wolf, Ana-Maria Zahariade, and Ion Zahariade for the many ways in which they helped me move the project along. Teaching students at the University of Toronto and at Harvard made the work less solitary and more fun; with their enthusiasm, challenges, and probing questions they helped me think twice about many an argument. Finally, the Yale University Press team—Michelle Komie, Heidi Downey, Katherine Boller, and Mary Mayer—was an ideal partner to see this project to completion, with its infectious enthusiasm and commitment to making this the best book possible.

Always last to be mentioned but never least, my deepest gratitude goes to my family—to my parents and Julia, who were a constant source of love and support; and to Peter, the great absence at the end of this project, who taught me by example.

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