by Jon Lackman | 8 March 2006 | Awards
The Max Planck Research Award “is awarded this year to Harvard Art History and Architecture Professor Alina Payne and Professor Horst Bredekamp at Humboldt University in Berlin. The award comes with a 1.5 million euro grant and each year recognises one German, and one non-German researcher, both of whom show outstanding work involving international co-operation.”
Renaissance architecture scholar Payne “has been a model of interdisciplinary research, spanning the areas of science and art history … Bredekamp [specializes in] the problems of depicting and using new technologies … Some of his themes include clocks as world models, ‘bio-pictures,’ architecture software, and world models which go beyond normal imaginative capabilities, like a curved universe.”
