Hilary Ballon (1956 - June 16, 2017) was an American historian of architecture and urbanism.[1][2][3][4]
Ballon earned her BA from Princeton University in 1977[5] and a PhD from MIT in 1985 in the field of architecture, art, and environmental studies.[6][1]
She was a member of the faculty at Columbia University from 1985 to 2006, where she was also a Fellow of the Heyman Center for the Humanities.
From 2007 until her passing, she held the title of University Professor at New York University and taught in the graduate planning program at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.[7] She also served as Deputy Vice Chancellor of NYU Abu Dhabi, and was "part of the leadership team" that developed and opened the campus. The Teaching and Learning Center at that campus is named in her memory.[8]
She curated exhibits at the Museum of the City of New York, including on Robert Moses from 2006 to 2007,[9] as well as the bicentennial of the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 from 2011 to 2012.[10]
Books
edit- The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 (Columbia University Press, 2012)
- The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Making of the Modern Museum (2009)
- Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York (with Kenneth T. Jackson, W.W. Norton, 2007).
- New York’s Pennsylvania Stations (W. W. Norton, 2002)[11]
- Louis Le Vau: Mazarin's College, Colbert's Revenge (Princeton University Press, 2000)[12] - winner of the Prix d’Academie from the Academie Francaise.[13]
- The Paris of Henri IV: Architecture and Urbanism (MIT Press, 1991)[14]
References
edit- ^ "SAH Newsletter". Default.
- ^ "Hilary Ballon, 1956-2017 | MIT School of Architecture + Planning". sap.mit.edu.
- ^ "Hilary Ballon, professor of urban studies and architecture, passes away". June 19, 2017.
- ^ ANDERSON, CHRISTY; EASTON, ELIZABETH; McPHEE, SARAH; WESTERMANN, MARIËT; YERKES, CAROLYN (2018). "Hilary Ballon (1956–2017)". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 77 (1): 6–9. doi:10.1525/jsah.2018.77.1.6. JSTOR 26419055 – via JSTOR.
- ^ "Hilary M. Ballon '77". Princeton Alumni Weekly. 2018-07-02. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ "Hilary Ballon | SOF/Heyman Profile". SOF/Heyman. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ "Hilary Ballon | SOF/Heyman Profile". SOF/Heyman. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ Dhabi, NYU Abu. "About". New York University Abu Dhabi. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ "Robert Moses and the Modern City | Museum of the City of New York". www.mcny.org. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ "The Greatest Grid | Museum of the City of New York". www.mcny.org. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ Winling, LaDale C. (August 9, 2008). "Review Essay: Railroads and Metropolitan Form: ANN DURKIN KEATING, Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. JOHN HENRY HEPP IV, The Middle Class City: Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876-1926. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. HILARY BALLON, New York's Pennsylvania Stations. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002. DAVID M. YOUNG, The Iron Horse and the Windy City: How Railroads Shaped Chicago. Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005". Journal of Planning History. 7 (3): 252–260. doi:10.1177/1538513208319258. S2CID 149171725.
- ^ Ziskin, Rochelle (December 1, 2003). "Hilary Ballon, Louis Le Vau: Mazarin's Collège, Colbert's Revenge". The Journal of Modern History. 75 (4): 954–956. doi:10.1086/383375 – via journals.uchicago.edu (Atypon).
- ^ Ziskin, Rochelle (December 1, 2003). "Hilary Ballon, Louis Le Vau: Mazarin's Collège, Colbert's Revenge". The Journal of Modern History. 75 (4): 954–956. doi:10.1086/383375 – via journals.uchicago.edu (Atypon).
- ^ Cleary, Richard (June 1, 1993). "Review: The Paris of Henri IV: Architecture and Urbanism by Hilary Ballon". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 52 (2): 222–224. doi:10.2307/990788. JSTOR 990788 – via online.ucpress.edu.