A House Deconstructed: An Uncertainty Manifesto

Mark Jarzombek is Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at MIT. He works on a wide range of topics both historical and theoretical. His publications include the groundbreaking textbook, A Global History of Architecture (Wiley Press, 2006) with co-author Vikramaditya Prakash and with the noted illustrator Francis D.K. Ching; Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective (Wiley Press, 2013); and Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). In 2018, Jarzombek and Prakash founded O(U)R, [Office for (Un)certainty Research].

Vikramaditya Prakash is Professor and Associate Dean, College of Built Environments, University of Washington, Seattle. He works on modernism, postcoloniality, global history, and fashion and architecture. He is host of the ArchitectureTalk podcast and co-design lead at O(U)R: Office of (Un)certainty Research. His latest book, One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash (Mapin, 2020) documents Indian modernism in a global frame. He is co-PI (with Mark Jarzombek) of Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grants for GAHTC Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative. He holds a B.Arch from Punjab University and both an MA and PhD from Cornell. He lives in Seattle with his wife and three children.