Katherine Fischer Taylor
Contact Information
255 Cochrane-Woods Art Center
5540 South Greenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
773.702.0255
k-taylor@uchicago.edu
Ph.D. Harvard University - 19th and 20th century architecture and urbanism, with an emphasis on the reception and social use of buildings. Current research concerns problems of the representation of power in post-revolutionary architecture, especially 19th-century France.
Selected Publications
- Review of Carl Lounsbury, The Courthouses of Early Virginia: An Architectural History, (2005), forthcoming in The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians,
- "First Appearances: the Material Setting and Culture of the Early Supreme Court." in The Supreme Court of the United States: The Pursuit of Justice, eds. Christopher Tomlins, (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2005,) pp. 357-381.
- Interview (on the challenges of contemporary cities), (Chicago Art Journal 15: Cities (2005),) pp. 88-96.
- "Architecture's Place in Art History: Art or Adjunct?" in the State of Art History series, (Art Bulletin 83, June 2001), pp. 342-46.
- "The Festival of Justice: Paris, 1849." in Law and the Image, eds. Costas Douzinas & Lynda Nead, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999,) pp. 137-177.
- "Looking to Learn: Visual Pedagogy at the University of Chicago", With Linda Seidel. Exhibition catalogue. (Chicago: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 1998).
- Review of Designing Paris, by D. Van Zanten, and Charles Garnier's Paris Opera, by C. Mead. (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 53, June 1994,) pp. 239-242.
- In the Theater of Criminal Justice: The Palais de Justice in Second Empire Paris. (Princeton University Press, 1993). (Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians.)"Architecture's Place in Art History: Art or Adjunct?" in the State of Art History series, (Art Bulletin 83, June 2001,) pp. 342-46.
- "The Festival of Justice: Paris, 1849." in Law and the Image, eds. Costas Douzinas & Lynda Nead. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999,) pp. 137-177.
- "Le Code et l'équité. La transformation du Palais de Justice de Paris au XIXe siècle." In: La Justice en ses temples. Regards sur l'architecture judiciaire en France, edited by the Association française pour l'histoire de la justice, (Poitiers & Paris: Brissaud, 1992,) pp. 81-128.