Allan Temko
Allan Bernhard Temko (born February 4, 1924 in New York , NY , † January 25, 2006 in Orinda , California ) was an American architect and architecture critic . In 1990 he won the Pulitzer Prize .
Life
Temko grew up in Weehawken , New Jersey . He was a naval officer in World War II . In 1947 he graduated from Columbia University in New York . He then studied at the University of California, Berkeley and the Sorbonne in Paris . Temko later taught urban planning and social science at Berkeley. From 1971 to 1980 he was a full professor at California State University at Hayward .
From 1961 to 1993 Temko was an architecture critic for the San Francisco Chronicle . He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for a work on the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral . This made him the first architecture critic in the world to ever win this award.
His book Notre Dame of Paris , published in 1955, is a bestseller to this day.
Web links
- Allan Temko. In: arch INFORM .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Temko, Allan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Temko, Allan Bernhard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American architect and architecture critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 4, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 2006 |
| Place of death | Orinda , California |