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Maur Dessauvage

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Adjunct Assistant Professor

Maur Dessauvage is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia GSAPP

Maur Dessauvage is a historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century architecture in Europe and the Atlantic world. Critically engaging with the “material turn” in the humanities, his work explores how architecture is reciprocally shaped by both material and ideational forces, including aesthetic thought, religious belief, and political ideology.

His first book project, Sempiternal Monuments: Architecture and the Afterlives of the Holy Roman Empire, examines the survivals and revivals of the Holy Roman Empire in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It argues that monarchical and ecclesiastical patrons sought to restore the artistic, religious, and political traditions of the medieval imperial past in order to legitimate themselves at the precise moment that their authority was challenged by drastic material changes and social upheavals. The book demonstrates this through close analyses of architectural monuments, their iconographic programs, and the public ceremonies that took place in and around them.

He received a Ph.D. in architectural history from Columbia University in 2026, with a graduate certificate from the Center for Comparative Media. He holds a B.Arch from Cornell University and a Master’s in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices from Columbia GSAPP. His work has been supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, where he was a predoctoral fellow in the annual Scholars Program on the theme “Repair” (2025–26).

Courses

Course Semester Title Student Work Instructor Syllabus Requirements & Sequence Location & Time Session & Points Call No.
ARCH4348‑4 Fall 2026
Questions in Architectural History I
Maur Dessauvage

M.Arch I Only

408 Avery
W 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
15500