David Friedman

David Friedman is emeritus professor in the history section of the architecture department at MIT. He is an art historian who writes about medieval and Renaissance architecture and urban design and also about the history of mapping in the Renaissance. His publications include the book Florentine New Towns, which won the Alice Davis Hitchcock book award of the Society of Architectural Historians. He has been a fellow of the Villa i Tatti in Florence, the American Academy in Rome, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is also co-curator of the Museo delle Terre Nuove in San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy. He began to study photography seriously in 2016 at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design from which he received a post-baccalaureate certificate in 2019. His professional interests predisposed him to photograph the city; landscape provided a counterweight. Parks and the City is the result.