After earning her PhD in Contemporary Art History from the Sorbonne, Barbara Stehle worked at several museums in the US and Europe, including the Centre George Pompidou in Paris and the Zurich Kunsthaus in Switzerland. In 2014 she gave a TEDx Talk focusing on "places of unbearable memories" – including the site of the Twin Towers collapse in New York and a Khmer Rouge torture chamber in Cambodia – and addressing architecture as a means of revealing human emotion and the durability of the human spirit.
Based in New York City, Stehle curates, writes and lectures on the visual arts and architecture. Her research on Max Beckmann has been published in major exhibition catalogues, and as a historian of modernism, she is a passionate advocate for the importance of postmodernism.
This course will examine personalities working in Europe and in North America as well as non-western regions in the period 1400 to 2009. Areas of study will include an examination of interior architecture related issues that will be studied in the context of their social, political, technological, and economic circumstances, as they pertain to the design culture of the period. Special emphasis will be given to interior additions and renovations and other interventions. Other areas of study will include the development of architectural drawing, and the way in which designs often evolved through committees, or ongoing consultations among patrons, designers, administrators, and scholars. Attention will also be given to design theory, and the doctrines relating to site, orientation, proportion, decorum, and the commercial design market. A general background in the history of art and design is desirable but not mandatory.
Major Requirement | BFA Interior Studies
This course will examine the major designers working in the period 1850 to the present. Areas of study will include an examination of design related issues that will be studied in the context of their social, political, technological, and economic circumstances, as they pertain to the design culture of the period. Special emphasis will be given to the history of interior interventions, additions and renovations. Other areas of study will include the development of architectural drawing and other presentation media, and the way in which designs often evolved through committees, or ongoing consultations among the patrons, designers, administrators, and scholars. Attention will also be given to design theory, and the doctrines relating to site, orientation, proportion, decorum, and the commercial design market. A general background in the history of art and design is desirable but is not mandatory.
Major Requirement | BFA Interior Studies