Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Pauline Morin
College of Human Ecology
Cornell University
160AMVR
607-254-2713
pmm24 @cornell.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
History/Theory of Architecture, 1993-2002
Title of dissertation “Leon Battista Alberti: Architect as Orator”
Major: Architectural Theory Renaissance
Minor: Historiography of Architecture Modern
Master's of Environmental Design (Architecture)
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 1982-1989
Title of Thesis “The Van Horne Museum Park”
Bachelor of Arts (First Class Standing) History & Political Science
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 1978-1982
Languages
English and French, fluent
Italian, reading and conversational, Latin reading knowledge
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Senior Lecturer & Director of Exchange Programs
College of Human Ecology
Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY, 14853
2009 to Present
Senior Lecturer
Department of History of Art and Visual Studies
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
2003 to 2009
Visiting Assistant Professor
College of Architecture Art and Design
Mississippi State University
Starkville, Mississippi
Fall 2005
Lecturer
Architectural Tour of Rome/Pompeii & Paestum
Self-employed, May 2002
Co-Director/Instructor
Georgia Institute of Technology
College of Architecture
Paris Summer Study Abroad, 1997 -98
Instructor
Georgia Institute of Technology
College of Architecture, 1996
Preceptor
Georgia Institute of Technology,
College of Architecture, 1995-97
Teaching Assistant
Georgia Institute of Technology
College of Architecture
(Fall)History of Modern Architecture, 1995
Coursework:
DEA 4000: Eco-Design History/Theory
2009 to Present
DEA 4010: Representation as Investigation
2009 to Present
DEA 4020: Supervised Fieldwork
Anglo-Franco Ecological Design
ARTH 3149 Construction of Artistic Identity. History of Art, Cornell University,
2003 to 2009
ARTH 1114 Classicism: From Temples to Teapots, History of Art, Cornell University, 2003 to 2009
ARTH 4938 Leon Battista Alberti: Architect as Orator, History of Art, Cornell University, Fall 2007 To 2009
ARTH 4939 Italian Renaissance Architectural Treatises,
Spring 2008 to Present
ENG 131 Writing Through the Disciplines, History of Art, Cornell University,
Summer 2004
ARTH 538 Leon Battista Alberti: Architect as Orator, History of Art, Cornell University
Spring 2002,
ARTH 230 Monuments in Medieval Art, History
MSU
ARC 3313 History of Architecture II,
Fall, College of Architecture, Mississippi State University, Fall 2006
ARC 1536 Introduction to Design, College of Architecture, Mississippi State University, Fall 2006 (THIS STUDIO RECEIVED THE ACSA CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN 2006-07)
ARC 1536H Directed Study for Honors Students, College of Architecture, Mississippi State University, Fall 2006
Georgia Institute of Technology
ID 4951A French Design and Literary Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Program for Industrial Design/Architecture, 1997-98
Arch 2201/2202 History of Architecture Ancient to 1900, Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Architecture, 1995-97
Arch 4941A1 Paris Preparation - French Culture/History and Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Architecture, 1996
SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY
PUBLICATIONS
Beyond Measure: Equestrian Projects, Alberti in Ferarra in Leon Battista Alberti: Actes du Congrès international”Gli Este e l’Alberti: Tempo e misura: Ferrara, 29-XII-2004, Edités par/A cura di/Edited by Francesco Furlan & Gianni Venturi, Paris, SILBA & Pisa-Roma, Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2010, vol. 11, pp. 177-185.
Leon Battista Alberti: Architect as Orator
Ph.D. Dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology,
May, 2002
Foucault and Lacan: The Gaze and its Operation within Historiography. Washington, Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture,
March, 2001.
Noted Women Architects and Designers of the 20th Century, Almanac of Architecture and Design 2001, Norcross, G.A., Greenway Group, 2001
Noted Women Architects and Designers of the 20th Century, Almanac of Architecture and Design 2000, Norcross, G.A., Greenway Group, 1999
Ciceronian Texts and Alberti's De re aedificatoria.
Phoenix: Herberger Center for Design Excellence, (Outstanding Paper Award)
1997
The Van Horne Museum Park, Master's Thesis, University of Calgary, 1990
CONFERENCES AND EXHIBITIONS
The Tell-Tale-Detail: Alberti and Masaccio
The Renaissance Society of America Conference
Montreal, March 24, 2011
INVITED SPEAKER to “Foreground + Background in Architectural History,”
Architecture Department, Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia, October 23, 2010
Curated and Co-Designed “Student Works from Paris/London”
Martha Van Rennselaer Hall
Cornell University,
September - December 2009
Importing Vitruvius: Images of Empire and National Identity
Presented at the Society of Architectural Historians 62nd Annual Meeting
Pasadena, California, April 3, 2009
The not so Perfect Paradise: Reading Between the Lines in the Prologue to Alberti’s De re aedificatoria. Presented at the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, IL, April 3, 2008.
Under Cover: Rhetoric and Politics in Alberti’s De re aedificatoria, the Society of Architectural Historians 60th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
11-15 April 2007,
Horse Stories from Ferarra, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Fort Worth, Texas,
October 13, 2005
INVITED SPEAKER, Beyond Measure: Equestrian Projects, Alberti in Ferarra, Istituto De Studi Rinascimentali, Ferarra, Italy,
November 29- Dec 4, 2004
The Eighth Liberal Art: Alberti’s Transformation of an Architectural Episteme, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Savannah, Georgia, October 2003
Architecture as the Eighth Liberal Art, The Society of Arts and Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., March 2002
Foucault and Lacan: The Gaze and its Operation within Historiography,
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, National Conference, Baltimore,
March 19, 2001
Architect or Dilettante: Leon Battista Alberti ,
Annual Meeting of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Lexington, Virginia
October 12, 2000
Text and Edifice: Alberti’s Designs on Immortality , 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Miami, Florida,
June 15, 2000
Reconsidering the Reconsidered: The Structure of De re aedificatoria, 17th Annual Conference of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians
Lexington, Kentucky,
October 8, 1999
Ciceronian Rhetoric and Alberti’s De re aedificatoria
51st Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians in
Los Angeles, California
April 17, 1998
Co-Organized "Paris Re-presented" Artworks from Architecture and Industrial Design
Architecture Atrium, Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia,
October-November 1997
Moderator for the 15th Annual Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians Conference, Atlanta, Georgia,
October 1997
Ciceronian Texts and Alberti's De re aedificatoria,
Architectural Research Centers Consortium, 1977 Spring Research Conference Atlanta, Georgia,
April 25, 1997
Outstanding Paper Award
Decorum and The Art of Building: Alberti, Vitruvius, Cicero
Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians
in Birmingham, Alabama,
October 10, 1997
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2008 Cornell Faculty Institute for Diversity Fellow $3,000
2007 Honorable Mention Excellence in Design Awards:
Single Family Residential Home Category
2006 Honors Faculty, Mississippi State University
2002 Fellow in the Society of Humanities, Cornell University
2000 Graduate Student Travel Award, South Eastern Society of Architectural Historian’s Annual Meeting in Lexington, Virginia
1998 Special Recognition Award (Paris Program) Industrial Design Program Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
1998 CETL/Amoco Foundation GTA Teaching Excellence Award
College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology
Outstanding Paper Spring 1997 Architectural Research Centers Consortium Conference in Atlanta, Georgia
Doctoral Fellowship for Teaching - Ph.D. Program College of Architecture 1995-1997, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Georgia Tech Alumni Association Leadership Award for International Study - 1995
Graduate Research Assistantship - Ph.D. Program 1993-95
Georgia Institute of Technology
Canadian Federation of University Women Professional Scholarship 1986-1987, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
Cohos Evamy Partnership Travel Scholarship (Architecture) 1985
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
Graduate assistantship for thesis research 1985-1987
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
Queen Elizabeth Scholarship in Canadian Studies 1981
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE
Client/Co-Designer
Sustainable Renovation of 100-year-old stone Shingle Style duplex on Willard Way, Ithaca, N.Y.
Summer 2005/07
2007 Honorable Mention Excellence in Design Awards: Single Family Residential Home Category
Site Architect
Department of Classics
Cornell University
Head Neolithic Architect assigned to complete documentation, survey, and drawings of the Halai archeological site in Greece.
May 2000 – October 2000
Self-Employed
Design & construction of Basin-William residence in Huntsville,
Utah. USA
July 1992-April 1996
Intern Architect
Hutchinson Architect
Calgary, Alberta Canada
Design of Banff Fire Hall
March 1992 - June 1992
Intern Architect
Wilson Partnership
Calgary, Alberta Canada
Master Plan, Schematic Design, Design/Presentation Model for Claresholm Hospital, Claresholm, Alberta
October 1990 - March 1991
Intern Architect
Culham Pederson Valentine
Calgary, Alberta Canada
Elevation Studies - Calgary Courthouse
Schematic Design for Addition to Parliament Buildings in Ottawa
March 1990 – June 1990
Intern Architect
The Leblond Partnership
Calgary, Alberta Canada
September 1989 - February 1990
Schematic Design on renovation of Jasper Park Lodge and Lake Louise Convention Center, Lake Louise Alberta
Exhibition Design Study for History Department
University of Calgary, 1986
Junior Designer
Sturgess Partnership
Calgary, Alberta, Summer 1985
Exhibition Design on the Alberta Pavilion for Expo 86
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