<p>Global Histories of Modern Architecture & Urbanism; Comparative Histories of Preservation around the World and Particularly in India; Architectural History; Theory and Criticism of Modern and Contemporary Architecture in non-Western Contexts</p>
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Email Address:
mrr55@pitt.edu
Family Name:
Rajagopalan
Publications:
2012 Colonial Frames, Nationalist Histories: Imperial Legacies, Architecture, and Modernity (Surrey, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited). Co-edited with Madhuri Desai.
2012 “From Colonial Memorial to National Monument: The Case of the Kashmiri Gate, Delhi” in Mrinalini Rajagopalan and Madhuri Desai, eds., Colonial Frames, Nationalist Histories: Imperial Legacies, Architecture, and Modernity (Surrey, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited), pgs. 73-101.
2011 “A Medieval Monument and its Modern Myths of Iconoclasm: The Enduring Contestations over the Qutb Complex in Delhi, India” in Dale Kinney and Richard Brilliant, eds., Reuse Value: Spoliation and Appropriation in Art and Architecture from Constantine to Sherrie Levine
Qualifications:
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2007
Department:
History of Art and Architecture
Region:
South Asia
Office:
221 Frick Fine Arts Building
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Office phone number:
412-648-2400
Rank:
Associate Professor
Biography:
<p>Mrinalini Rajagopalan is an architectural historian of India and is particularly interested in the impact of British colonialism on the architectural, urban, and preservation cultures of modern India. She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled: Building Histories: The Construction and Contestation of Delhi’s Architectural Heritage from the Colonial Past to the Postcolonial Present. She is also co-editor of Colonial Frames, Nationalist Histories: Imperial Legacies, Architecture, and Modernity. At Pitt she offers courses on modernist architecture in Western and non-Western contexts; global urbanisms in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and the history of architectural preservation. Before coming to Pitt, Rajagopalan held fellowships at Yale University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University. She was also a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 2010.</p>
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