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Carla Yanni
Associate Professor & Assistant VP for Undergraduate Academic Affairs
Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Architecture in Europe and the United States
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Biographical Information:
Carla Yanni is Associate Professor of Art History and Assistant Vice President for Undergraduate Academic Affairs. 
Her area of scholarly expertise is nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture; for her, architectural history is not the study of
great monuments and architects, but rather the intellectual, social, and cultural meanings of buildings. She promotes the study of
architectural history as a way of understanding a society’s values. In particular, her scholarship focuses on the relationship between
architecture and the fields of science and medicine, in order to investigate the way that architecture participates in the social
construction of knowledge. The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States, was published by the University of
Minnesota Press in 2007, in the series Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture.
For a description of the book, see http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/Y/yanni_architecture.html
Her first book, Nature's Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display (Princeton Architectural Press, 2005, and Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2000) explored the presentation of nineteenth-century natural science through its museums. During the
academic year 2002-2003, she was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art,
Washington DC, and from 2003 to 2007 she served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians. Her article
"Divine Display or Secular Science: Defining Nature at the Natural History Museum in London," won the Founders’ Award from the Society
of Architectural Historians in 1996. Her other scholarly interests include the historiography of American architecture and the
architecture of universities. Carla Yanni received her doctorate in art history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994.
Dr. Carla Yanni at the
Hubcap House, Peoria, Illinois, October
2001
Recent Publications:
The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States.
Minneapolis, University of
Minnesota Press, 2007.
"Learning from the History and Sociology of Science: Interrogating
the
Spaces of Knowledge," invited essay in a series of methodological
articles, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians,
December 2005, 64:4, 423-425 .
“The Linear Plan for Insane Asylums in the United States to 1866” Journal
of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2003.
Nature's Museums: Victorian Science and
the Architecture of Display. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins,
2000 and London: Athlone, 1999.
"Nature and Nomenclature: William Whewell and the
Production of Architectural Knowledge of Early Victorian
Britain " Architectural History (UK) September
1997
" Divine Display or Secular Science: Defining Nature at
the Natural History Museum in London, " Journal of the
Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 55, no. 3,
September 1996 (Winner of the Founders' Award from the
Society of Architectural Historians)
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