Frank Salmon

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Frank Edwin Salmon (born June 8, 1962 ) is an English architectural historian with a chair at the University of Cambridge , where he has been President of St John's College Cambridge since 2015 . He is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a member of the Historic England Advisory Committee.

Life and academic career

Salmon was born in Ipswich and studied at Northgate Grammar School for Boys , Downing College, Cambridge and the Courtauld Institute of Art . From 1989 to 2002 he taught at the University of Manchester and from 2002 to 2006 as Adjunct Associate Professor at the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art at Yale University in London . Since then he has taught at the Department of History of Art at Cambridge , where he succeeded David Watkin . Since 2006 he has been a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.

He won the Hawksmoor Essay Medal from the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain in 1992 . His book Building on Ruins was awarded the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society in 2001 and the Spiro Kostof Prize of the American Society of Architectural Historians in 2002. In 2006, Salmon was the invited speaker in Savannah , Georgia , for the Society's annual meeting.

Salmon's reassessment of William Kent's public architecture , including unbuilt designs for new Houses of Parliament in the 1730s , appeared in William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain (2013), the book that featured the great William Kent exhibit at the Bard Graduate Center , New York , and at the Victoria and Albert Museum , London , in 2014.

Salmon was Chairman of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (2003-2006) and Chair of the Faculty of Archeology, History and Letters of the British School at Rome (2006-2011). The Rickman Society , an architectural history discussion group named after Thomas Rickman , author of An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of English Architecture (1817) and designer of the Wedding Cake New Court and Bridge of Sighs at St John's College, Cambridge, meets in 2014 at Salmon's offices at St John's College.

He is married to art historian Catharine MacLeod, curator of 17th century collections at the National Portrait Gallery , London, and has two children.

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bloomsbury - What, Why and Who? In: Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury . Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN 978-0-8264-8674-5 , doi : 10.5040 / 9781472543219.0006 .
  2. ↑ Fellows Directory - StJohns. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
  3. ^ Fellows Directory - Society of Antiquaries. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
  4. ^ Hawksmoor Essay Medal. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
  5. ^ Spiro Kostof Book Award Recipients. (PDF) Society of Architectural Historians, accessed January 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Revealed: the Houses of Parliament that never came to be. Retrieved January 11, 2020 .
  7. ^ William Kent's Designs for the Houses of Parliament. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
  8. ↑ 33125009359387 archive.org
  9. ↑ Christopher Drew Armstrong: Review . In: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians . Vol. 61, No. 2 , 2002, p. 222-224 , JSTOR : 991845 (English).
  10. ↑ Chris Miele: Review: Summerson and Hitchcock: Centenary Essays on Architectural Historiography (Studies in British Art 16) by Frank Salmon . In: The Burlington Magazine . Vol. 151, No. 1271 , 2009, p. 111 .
personal data
SURNAME Salmon, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salmon, Frank Edwin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British architectural historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1962