Dr. Aaron White
Title:
- Assistant Professor
Art Discipline:
- Art History
Contacts:
awhite@caad.msstate.edu
Office: (662) 325-4010
240 Giles Hall
Overview
Summary:
Dr. Aaron White is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at Mississippi State University. He holds a PhD in Architectural History and Theory from Columbia University, an MA in Architecture from Pratt Institute, and a BA in Architecture from the University of Idaho. His research focuses on relations between classicism and colonization in late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century English architecture. His writing has appeared in AD, CLOG, Studio, Urban Omnibus, Think Space Pamphlets, and The Building (Lars Müller, 2017).
Research interests:
Architecture, Architectural History, Art History, Classicism, Colonization, Empire, England, British Empire, Design Pedagogy
Publications
Book, Chapter
- Ambivalence as Agency. The Building. Ed. José Aragüez. Zürich, Switzerland: Lars Müller. 202-209. 2016
- Having It All Ways. The Building. Ed. José Aragüez. Zürich, Switzerland: Lars Müller. 106-113. 2016
Journal Article
- Western State Penitentiary and the Search for Solitude. . 2014
- Infinite Deferral: Olmstedian Use and its Challengers. Zagreb Society of Architects. Pages 1-15. 2013
Presentations
Lecture
- "Architecture and Race in Early Modern England." , Columbia University, . 2024
- "Architecture and Identity in Early Modern England." , Columbia University, . 2023
- "Architecture as a Medium of Civility in the Early Modern Period." , Columbia University, New York, NY. 2021
- "Asher Benjamin and the Culture of Building in Revolutionary America." , Tufts University, Medford, MA. 2020
- "Architecture, Colonialism, and Law in the Early Modern." , Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. 2018
Paper
- "Design in Dialogue: Precedent in the Introductory Design Studio." ACSA 112th Annual Meeting: Disrupters on the Edge, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Vancouver, BC. 2024
- "Troubling Allurements: Travel, Architecture, and Judgement in Early Modern England." Southern Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting, Southern Historical Association, Charlotte, NC. 2023
- "Knowledge and Identity in Surveys of England’s Ulster Plantation." Society of Architectural Historians annual conference, Society of Architectural Historians, virtual. 2023
- "“This Country of England, Once as Uncivil as Ireland Now Is:” Sir Thomas Smith, Hill Hall, and the Fashioning of English Identity." Southeast Society of Architectural Historians annual conference, Southeast Society of Architectural Historians, Memphis, TN. 2022
- "“To blanch an Aethiop:” Performative Identity in Ben Jonson’s Masque of Blackness ." Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Society of Architectural Historians, Pittsburgh, PA. 2022
- "The Classical as Colonial Legitimation." Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Society of Architectural Historians, Minneapolis, MN. 2018
- "'A Native Civilitie:’ Inigo Jones, Stonehenge, and the Ambivalence of Heritage." Association of Art Historians annual conference, Association of Art Historians, Loughborough University. 2017
Areas of Expertise
Architecture, Architectural History, Art History, Classicism, Colonization, Empire, England, British Empire