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Architecture, he noted, is a powerful setting for one’s personal and work life, and has an inextricable emotional component. “So listen to that voice inside of yourself. Your own sensibility is very important,” said Goldberger. Goldberger was visiting Doha to deliver the opening keynote address at the 4 th biennial Hamad Bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art held recently at the Museum of Islamic Arts and sponsored by Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar and others. Jesús Escobar on parallels between Madrid in its “Golden Century” and Doha today Last week, NU-‐Q also hosted Dr. Jesùs Escobar, chair of Northwestern University’s Art History Department in Evanston, Illinois, who spoke to students on how architecture and politics interact to shape city design. In the context of a discussion that asked, “Why study architecture and the city?” the speaker offered a case study of the European metropolis as a prelude to a discussion that ranged from architecture as an instrument of power—and how rulers from ancient times to the modern day have used architecture as a practical and symbolic solution in building nations. The second speaker in a new lecture and discussion series at Northwestern University in Qatar called “The Evanston Experience: Great Teachers from Northwestern University,” Escobar lectured on “The Plaza and the Grid: The Design of Cities in the Early Modern Spanish World. Escobar is chair of Northwestern University’s Art History Department in Evanston, Illinois. “Because we look at Madrid today as a city of 3.5 million people, we think it’s always been a big city. But it was a very small town in 1561 when it was chosen to become the capital of Spain and within 40 years it became one of the largest cities of Europe. So the transformation is phenomenal. And that kind of transformation is one that I think is not too different from what you are living here,” said Escobar, who has written extensively about Madrid of 16 th and 17 th centuries, termed Madrid’s “Golden Century.” -‐-‐ ENDS -‐-‐ About Northwestern University in Qatar Northwestern University in Qatar, which started accepting students in 2008, is a partnership of Northwestern’s highly esteemed School of Communication and Medill School of Journalism with the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development. At its campus in Doha, Northwestern University in Qatar offers undergraduate degree programs in communication and journalism – fields that are rapidly changing, are of enormous social importance, and that offer P.O. Box 34102 | Education City | Doha, Qatar T +974 4454 5000 | F +974 4454 5180 | www.qatar.northwestern.edu
abundant and exciting career opportunities. Northwestern University is ranked #12 by U.S. News & World Report. For more information, please visit http://www.qatar.northwestern.edu/. Northwestern University is ranked #12 among all U.S. universities by US News & World Report. About Paul Goldberger Paul Goldberger is the Architecture Critic for The New Yorker, where since 1997 he has written the magazine’s celebrated “Sky Line” column. He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in New York City. He was formerly Dean of the Parsons school of design, a division of The New School. He began his career at The New York Times, where in 1984 his architecture criticism was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, the highest award in journalism. He is the author of several books, most recently Why Architecture Matters, published in 2009 by Yale University Press; Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture, a collection of his architecture essays published in 2009 by Monacelli Press, and Christo and Jeanne-‐Claude, published in 2010 by Taschen. In 2008 Monacelli published Beyond the Dunes: A Portrait of the Hamptons, which he produced in association with the photographer Jake Rajs. Paul Goldberger’s chronicle of the process of rebuilding Ground Zero, entitled UP FROM ZERO: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York, which was published by Random House in the fall of 2004, and brought out in a new, updated paperback edition in 2005, was named one of The New York Times Notable Books for 2004. Paul Goldberger has also written The City Observed: New York, The Skyscraper, On the Rise: Architecture and Design in a Post-‐Modern Age, Above New York, and The World Trade Center Remembered. About Jesús Escobar Jesús Escobar (Ph.D., 1996, Princeton; Associate Professor) is a specialist in the art, architecture, and urbanism of early modern Spain, Italy, and the Spanish world. His book The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid (Cambridge University Press, 2003; paper, 2009) explores the interchange of architecture and politics in the evolution of Madrid from a secondary city of Castile to the seat of a global empire. The book won the Eleanor Tufts Award from the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies and was published in a Spanish-‐language edition in 2008 by Editorial Nerea. Professor Escobar is currently at work on a book project tentatively titled “Architecture and Empire in Seventeenth-‐Century Madrid,” which examines buildings and public spaces in early modern Madrid within the context of developments in architecture, urbanism, and imperial governance in the larger Spanish world. Other current research projects focus on the historiography of the baroque in Spain and seventeenth-‐century royal palaces in Madrid, Mexico City, and Lima. Professor Escobar serves as Editor for the scholarly book series, Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies, published by Penn State University Press and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of P.O. Box 34102 | Education City | Doha, Qatar T +974 4454 5000 | F +974 4454 5180 | www.qatar.northwestern.edu
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