Daniel Savoy

Professor Savoy (Ph.D. 2008, The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU) joined the faculty at Manhattan in 2010, after teaching at Vassar College and The City University of New York, in The Spitzer School of Architecture, City College.  He specializes in early modern Italian architecture and urbanism, and his research interests include:

- Architecture and experience: the ecological interplay between buildings, the body, and nature; modern and pre-modern psychology of perception; the senses; the perception of architectural temporality; travel and urban scenography

- Digital architectural history: the Venice Canal Project, a web-based platform that will enable researchers to study the urban experience of the canals of Venice through immersive, 360-degree videos and multimedia informational content

- The global Renaissance: the origins of Renaissance globalization; methods and thematic models of inter-cultural research; buildings as nodes of cultural exchange; the state of the field of European Renaissance art and architecture in the context of the global turn

- Methods of architectural analysis and history: the advantages and disadvantages of the canon, the grand narrative, and hierarchies of value; relational approaches to architectural agency, design, ideation, and value; methodological applications of network and systems theory