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Biography
I am an historian of early modern architecture in France and England. I received my B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara, an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, and my Ph.D. from Columbia University. I have had teaching posts at Columbia, Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and Vassar College in New York. Prior to my appointment at Manchester, I was Scott Opler Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford. I was Lead Editor of Architectural History, the journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, from 2017 to 2020.
Research interests
My research covers two related areas:
- the role of architecture in seventeenth-century scientific and academic circles
- the technical and mathematical background of early modern architects, engineers, and gardeners
My more general interests lie in
- the shared material culture of art, science, and technology
- the professional and intellectual world of early modern artisans
- architectural treatises and the printed book
- the urban history of Paris
- court culture and patronge
I have published a monograph, François Blondel: Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution (Routledge, 2010), was co-curator of the exhibition Compass and Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England 1500-1750 (ex. cat. Yale University Press, 2009), and have edited a collected volume of essays: Geometrical Objects: Architecture and the Mathematical Sciences 1400-1800 (Springer, 2014). I am currently working on two long-term projects, one on early modern cartography and its relation to landscape and another on the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns in the late seventeenth century.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
Trustee, The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
1 Sept 2017 → 1 Sept 2020
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Picturing versus Mapping in the French Renaissance
Gerbino, A., 8 Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Imago Mundi: the international journal for the history of cartography. 76, 2, p. 1-22Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Picauville (1581), Montargis (1570), and Nanteuil-le-Haudouin (1609) [catalogue entries]
Gerbino, A., 2019, Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes. Vues et fîgures de l’espace français. Moyen Âge et Renaissance. Dumasy-Rabineau, J., Gastaldi, N. & Serchuk, C. (eds.). Paris: Archives Nationales, p. 133-35, 150-51, 212-13 7 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution
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Mastering the Landscape: Geometric Survey in Sixteenth-Century France
Gerbino, A., 12 Dec 2018, In: Art Bulletin. 100, 4, p. 7-33Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Paper Revolution: The Origin of Large Scale Technical Drawing under Henry VIII
Gerbino, A., 2017, Picturing Places, a visual resource of the British Library.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution
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Jacques Lemercier’s Scenografia of Montjeu: Architectural Prints, Cartography, and Landscape in 1620
Gerbino, A., 14 Jun 2016, Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period. Fischer, H., Remmert, V. R. & Wolschke-Bulmahn, J. (eds.). Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag Ag, p. 135-152Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Activities
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Architectural History (Journal)
Gerbino, A. (Editor in chief)
1 Sept 2017 → 1 Sept 2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work › Research