Jonathan Reynolds

PROFESSOR (BARNARD)

Phone: (212) 854-5396
Email: jmreynolds@barnard.edu
Office: 500P Diana Center
Office Hours: Mondays, 1-2 and Tuesdays, 9:30-10:30

Educational Background

PhD: Stanford University (’91)

Classes Taught

AHIS BC3688 Japanese Photography
AHIS BC3970 Methods and Theories of Art History
AHIS G8606 Japanese Architecture: Tokyo

Research Interests

Japanese Art and Architecture

Jonathan M. Reynolds teaches on a wide range of topics in the history of Japanese art and architecture. His research has focused on the history of modern Japanese architecture. More recently he has also begun to work on Japanese photography. His book Allegories of Time and Space: Visualizing Japanese Cultural Identity through Architecture and Photography, which explores the role of the concept of tradition in the construction of cultural identity in Japanese architecture, photography, and popular culture from the 1940s to the 1990s, was published by University of Hawai’i Press in early 2015.

Selected Publications

Allegories of Time and Space: Japanese Identity in Photography and Architecture (University of Hawai’i, 2015)

“Teaching Architectural History in Japan: Building a Context for Contemporary Practice,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2002)

Maekawa Kunio and the Emergence of Modernist Japanese Architecture (University of California, 2001)