Amy Chang

Amy Chang

Portrait of Amy Chang

Amy Chang is a PhD Candidate at Harvard University in the Dept. of History of Art and Architecture, where she studies the art and architecture of the Global Spanish Empire under the direction of Felipe Pereda. Her dissertation focuses on the interpretation and reception of Andalusian and Philippine Islamic architecture within the Hapsburg Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the formation of the idea of national styles. She is interested in the impact of Spain's Iberian and Asian Islamic inheritance on the conception and development of Renaissance and Baroque architecture and architectural theory in Iberia, and the impact that cultural minorities have on conceptualizing 'empire.' During her time with the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative she will be furthering her work on the cities of Seville and Manila.

 

Amy maintains a broad engagement with the themes of assimilation, foreignness, and regional and national identity construction in Spanish Golden Age architecture and painting, and she has a special interest in the impact of migration and minorities on the artistic development of the dominant cultures they share space with.

 

Project: Architecture Under Occupation: Interpretation, Suppression, and Censorship of Islamic Architecture of the Early Modern Spanish Pacific (Philippines)