Ritu Bhatt
Assistant Professor
E-mail: bhatt017@umn.edu
Telephone: 612-626-7536
Ph.D. History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture, MIT
Ritu Bhatt's teaching and research interests include history and theory of modernism, design cognition, aesthetics, cultural theory, and historiography of architecture in the Indian subcontinent. She has published articles in Journal of Architectural Education, Visible Language, Threshold, Architecture + Design, Traditional Dwellings and Settlement Review, and Harvard Asia Pacific Review.
Prior to joining the Department she was at UC Berkeley where she held the Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship and taught in the Departments of Architecture, Comparative Literature and Rhetoric.
Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship, Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley, 2000-2002
Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, Princeton, 1998-99
Henry Bromfield Rogers Fellowship for Outstanding Graduate Woman Student, Dean of Graduate Education, MIT, 1998-99
Arch 5410: Post World War II Experimentation:
Aesthetics and Politics
Arch 8450: Architectural Research Methods
Aesthetic or AnAesthetic: The Competing Symbols of Las Vegas Strip, Visible Language Special Issue on Learning from Las Vegas 37.3, 2003
Indianizing Indian Architecture: A Postmodern Tradition, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review Journal of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Volume XIII, Number 1, 2001
The Significance of the Aesthetic in Postmodern Architectural Theory, Journal of Architectural Education, MIT Press, May 2000
A Plan too Far: Chandigarh - A Lost Utopia, Harvard Asia Pacific Review Summer 1999, Volume 3 Number
