Timothy Hyde

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

09/07/2020 - 06/07/2021

Timothy Hyde is a Clark/Oakley Humanities Fellow at the Clark Art Institute. He is associate professor of architectural history and theory at MIT. His most recent book, Ugliness and Judgment: On Architecture in the Public Eye, examines the entanglements of aesthetic judgment with instruments of judgment in law, science, religion, and political economy. He is also the author of Constitutional Modernism: Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, and articles on the legal and material registers of modern architecture. As the Clark/Oakley Fellow, Hyde will work on an architectural history of environmentally contingent networks of modernity, examining building sites that range from Antarctic expedition huts to Caribbean sugar warehouses.