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Nancy Stieber

  • 2000–2001
  • Arts
  • Bunting Program
  • University of Massachusetts Boston

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A scholar of urban history and architecture, Nancy Stieber is an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her book Housing Design and Society in Amsterdam: Reconfiguring Urban Order and Identity, 1990–1920 won the 1999 Spiro Kostof Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. In 1999, she was selected by the editors of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians to cover the history of urbanism in architectural history.

During her fellowship year, she will work on a project that studies the metaphors used to represent Amsterdam at the end of the nineteenth century. She will examine the way that visual representations reflected conflicting attitudes toward the past held by citizens divided by class, religious, and ideological affiliations. She hopes to demonstrate that debate over the future form of the city took place within the context of those conflicting views. To complete the project, Stieber will examine a selected number of publications presenting visual images of Amsterdam from 1663 to 1925 in order to understand the genesis and formation of “Old Amsterdam,” that is, the invented nostalgic view of the city.

Stieber earned her PhD in history, theory, and criticism of architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has received numerous honors and distinctions, including two Faculty Development grants and two Healey grants from the University of Massachusetts.

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