Prof. Dr. Anna Minta, Kath. Privatuniversität Linz, Universität Zürich
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Prof. Dr. Anna Minta

Nominated by

  • Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
  • Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
  • AcademiaNet member since 26.07.2016
  • AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria


Employed by

  • Kath. Privatuniversität Linz
  • Universität Zürich


Academic Discipline/Fields

  • Arts and humanities
  • Social sciences, journalism and information


Field

Arts, Social and behavioural sciences, Humanities



Area of specialisation

Art and Architectural History



Research interests

  • Space / Space conceptions in Modernity, Socia-Spatial Theories; Processes and Practices of Auratization and Sacralization

  • Architecture, Art, and Design in the 19th to 21st centuries, their influence on constructing (national) identies and social order; Geographic focusses: Europe, Palestine / Israel, USA

  • Historiography; Preservation history and politics



Languages

English, French, German, Hebrew, Latin



Doctorate

  • 2003: Israel bauen. Architektur, Städtebau und Denkmalpolitik nach der Staatsgründung 1948 ("Nation-building in Israel: Architecture, town planning, and the politics of preservation between the War of Independence of 1948/49 and the Six-Day-War of 1967")


PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation

  • 2013: Staatsbauten und Sakralarchitektur in Washington/DC. Stilkonzepte patriotischer Baukunst ("Political and religious architecture of representation in Washington/DC. "The Battle of the Styles" in the 19th and 20th centuries")




Short CV/Education and training

Education and record of studies

  • 1998
    Master's Degree in Art History, Free University Berlin. Minor Fields: Modern European History; Media and Communications Studies. Thesis: Zeev Rechter: "House Engel" in Tel Aviv, 1933, in the context of Le Corbusier's architectural theory. Architecture and iconography in Palestine at the beginning of the twentieth century.

  • 2003
    Ph.D. in Art History, Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel

  • 2013
    Habilitation (second book) in Art History, Bern University

Professional experiences in academia

  • 1999 – 2003
    Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Lecturer) at the Department of Art History, Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel. Ph.D. project on Nation-Building and architecture in Israel after 1948

  • 2003 – 2005
    Wiss. Mitarbeiterin (Researcher), interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center "Institutionality and Historicity", Technical University Dresden, Dept. of Architectural History, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Research project on religious architecture in the United States

  • 2005 – 2014
    Wiss. Assistentin (Assistant Professor), Department of Art History, Bern University, Switzerland. Habilitation (second book) on Contested historicisms: Uses and interpretations of architectural formulas in Washington/DC

  • Since 2014
    SNSF-Professor, Department of Art History, Zurich University, Switzerland

  • Since 2016
    Full Professor of History and Theory of Architecture, Catholic Private University Linz, Austria

Selected publications

Books and editorships

  • Auratische Räume der Moderne, kritische berichte, Heft 2, 2016; Redaktion und Editorial mit F. Schmitz.

  • Staatsbauten und Sakralarchitektur in Washington/DC. Stilkonzepte patriotischer Baukunst, Berlin 2015.

  • Kunsttopografien globaler Migration: Orte, Räume und institutionelle Kontexte transitorischer Kunsterfahrung, kritische berichte, Heft 2, 2015; Redaktion und Editorial mit B. Dogramaci, B. Mersmann und M. Schieren.

  • Deutsche/deutschsprachige Kunstgeschichte seit den 1960er Jahren, kritische berichte, Heft 4, 2014; Redaktion und Editorial mit R. Mader und Ä. Söll.

  • Parlamentarische Repräsentationen: Das Bundeshaus in Bern im Kontext internationaler Parlamentsbauten und nationaler Strategien, hrsg. mit B. Nicolai, Bern 2014.

  • Glaubenssache(n), kritische berichte, Heft 2, 2013; Redaktion und Editorial.

  • Modernity and early cultures – Reconsidering non-western references for modern architecture in cross-cultural perspective, hrsg. mit B. Nicolai, Bern 2011.

  • Israel bauen. Architektur, Städtebau und Denkmalpolitik nach der Staatsgründung 1948, Berlin 2004.



Complete list of publications

Selected projects

  • SNSF-Professorship, Research Project: "Holy Spaces in Modernity. Transformations and Architectural Manifestations", 2014 – 2018

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