Rumiko Handa

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Rumiko Handa

Retiree UNL Retirees University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Contact

Address
ARCW 239
Lincoln NE 68588-0106
Phone
402-472-0240 On-campus 2-0240
Email
rhanda1@unl.edu

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Areas of Interest

Architectural theory, history and design;

Phenomenology and hermeneutics of architecture;

Architecture in Film, Literature, Theater, and Art

Publications (selected)

“Presenting Difficult Pasts Through Architecture: Converting National Socialist Sites to Documentation Centers,”  London and New York: Routledge, 2021.

"Allure of the Incomplete, Imperfect, and Impermanent: Designing and Appreciating Architecture as Nature." London and New York: Routledge, 2015.

At Home in Aspen,” Space Magazine (February 2015).

“Coelum Britannicum: Inigo Jones and Symbolic Geometry." Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future. Ed. by Kim Williams and Michael J. Ostwald. Vol. II. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2015.

“Experiencing the Architecture of the Incomplete, Imperfect, and Impermanent.” Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality: Essays on the Experience, Significance, and Meaning of the Built Environment. Co-edited by Julio Bermudez, Thomas Barrie, and Phillip Tabb. London: Ashgate, 2015.

“Sen no Rikyū and the Japanese Way of Tea: Ethics and Aesthetics of the Everyday.” Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture 4, no. 3 (2013), 229-248.

“Sir Walter Scott and Kenilworth Castle: Ruins Restored by Historical Imagination.” Preservation Education and Research, the Journal of the National Council for Preservation Education 5 (2012), 29-44.

"Conjuring the Real: The Role of Architecture in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Fiction." Co-edited by James Potter, foreword by Iain Borden. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011.

“Using Popular Film in the Architectural History Classroom.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 69, no. 3 (September 2010): 311-319.

“Elements of Architecture.” Architectura: Elements of Architectural Style. Ed. by Miles Lewis. Hauppauge, NY: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 2008.

“Appropriation of Architectural Ruins in Britain during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.” The Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Working Paper Series 20, no. 1 (Fall 2008): 2-19.

“Authorship of the Most Notable Antiquity (1655): Inigo Jones and Early Printed Books.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 100, no. 3 (September 2006): 357-378.

“Against Arbitrariness: Architectural Signification in the Age of Globalization.” Design Studies v. 20 n. 4 (July 1999): 363-380.

“Body World and Time: Meaningfulness in Portability.” Transportable Environments: Theory, Context, Design and Technology. Ed. by Robert H. Kronenburg. London: E & FN Spon, 1998.

Digital Commons Publications
Aspen Art Museum

Column Britannicum

Sen no Rikyu

Popular film

Conjuring the Real

Authorship

Against Arbitrariness

Body World Time

Education

B.Arch. University of Tokyo
M.Arch., M.S.Arch., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Registered Architect in Japan.