Prosthetic Fantasies in the First Machine Age
Martin Bressani, architect and architectural historian, is Professor and Director of McGill University’s School of Architecture. He holds an architecture degree from McGill University, a Masters degree in the History and Theory of architecture from M.I.T, and a Ph.D. in Art History from the Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). He has held visiting professorships at M.I.T, Cornell University, and Syracuse University and was a fellow at the Study Centre of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 2003. He has published in many of the topical forums for architectural debates such as Assemblage, Any Magazine, Log, and has been on the editorial board of the Journal of Architectural Education and the M.I.T journal Thresholds. He has contributed essays to many books as well as publishing in scholarly journals such as the American Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and Studies in the History of Art, the French Revue de l'art, the German Architectura: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Baukunst, the British Art History and the Canadian Annals in the History of Canadian Art.
