Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta)

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Research

Dr. Vogiatzaki is a historian working on the politics of architecture and the built environment in the early modern world.

Areas of interest:

  • Politics of architectural Imagination, visionary projects, utopias, dreams (literal and literary), religious visions and space (1650-1830). Currently working on a monograph on an alternative history of visionary architecture in the Enlightenment. 

  • Archipelagos as geographical and governmental formations in the Enlightenment. Aegean Archipelago & Eastern Mediterranean in the long 18th century. Colonial administration of New France. Caribbean plantations. Indigenous governance, religious minorities, diplomacy, catholic infrastructure, piracy, trade, resource extraction. 

  • Historiography of 18th-century architecture: authorial biases, challenging single authorship, labor conditions that make history writing possible. Forms of collaborative authorship. Collectives. “Mediocre” architects and the question of “genius”. Who and what should be included in history? Archival obstacles.
  • Histories of gender, sexuality, and space. Can we speak of a queer Enlightenment? Female agency in the shaping of the built environment. Forms of female resistance. Mysticism and decreation. Libertinism and deviance. 

     

Conference Activity

Conferences Organized:

  • 2024 Organizing Committee for external page EAHN (European Architectural History Network) Conference, Athens Greece

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Conference Presentations (Selection):

  • 2024 ‘Disciplining the Dream: Reading Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in the Enlightenment’ ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) Annual Conference.
  • 2023 ‘The Curious Case of Louis François Petit-Radel (1739?–1818)’ ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) Annual Conference, Anne Schroder Emerging Scholars Session.
  • 2021 ‘Dreams, Virtuality, and Space in Immanuel Kant’s Dreams of a Spirit-Seer (1766)’ NEASECS (Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) Annual Conference (online)
  • 2021 ‘Three Allegorical Caves in Choiseul-Gouffier’s Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce (1782)’ ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) Annual Conference (online)
  • 2019 ‘L’ Architecture Dangereuse: Architecture, Violence, and Eighteenth-Century Libertinage,” Presentation at ‘Bad Romance: The Ethics of Love, Sex, and Desire’, Graduate Students Conference, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
  • 2016 ‘Where is Cyberspace? Spatial Metaphors and the Illusion of the Ultimate Display’, Presentation at the Symposium ‘Deception in Art and Aesthetics’, Arthur M, Sackler Museum, Harvard University

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Respondent-Moderator:

  • 2024 Emerging Scholars Showcase I&II, a HECAA (Historians of 18-Century Art and Architecture) Emerging Scholars initiative. (online)
  • 2023 Fellowships Roundtable, a HECAA (Historians of 18-Century Art and Architecture) DEI & Emerging Scholars initiative (online)
  • 2022 ‘Post Defense’, Respondent at Cambridge Talks, Harvard Graduate School of Design
  • 2021 ‘external page Bodies of Work: Activism, Gender, Architecture’. Respondent and Moderator of the discussion between Ana María León and Torsten Lange. Event co-sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute & Harvard Graduate School of Design

Refereed Presentations:

  • 2022 ‘On Marvels and Stones’ Presentation of Dissertation Project at the HECAA (Historians of 18-Century Art and Architecture) Emerging Scholars Showcase (Online)
  • 2021 “A ‘Curious and Instructive’ Map”, Presentation at ‘See/Sip/Share’ organized by AHNCA (Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art) and HECAA (Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture) (Online)

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