Michael J. Lewis (architectural historian)

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Michael J. Lewis (born May 14, 1957 ) is an American architectural historian and critic.

Career

After studying economics at Haverford College , Michael J. Lewis studied art and architecture history at the University of Pennsylvania , where he received his doctorate in 1989. 1987–1988 he spent a research year at the University of Hanover as a Fulbright Fellow .

From 1989–91 Lewis taught at Bryn Mawr College , from 1991–93 he was a historiographer at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal , and since 1993 he has been teaching at Williams College in Williamstown (Massachusetts) , where he was appointed Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art in 2008 has been. His other teaching activities included McGill University in Montreal and University of Natal . Lewis was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington , 2000–01 a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , and in 2008 a Guggenheim Fellow . As an architecture critic, Lewis writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal on contemporary architecture .

The primary research focus of Lewis is the architectural history of the 19th century, whereby the connection between architecture, society and politics is the focus of interest. His dissertation was about the German center politician August Reichensperger and his commitment to the final construction of Cologne Cathedral . This was followed by a work on the American architect Frank Furness in 2001 and a manual on neo-Gothic architecture in 2002 and on American art and architecture in 2006. Further research contributions were made by the Karlsruhe architect Friedrich Weinbrenner or the fortress architect Johann Melchior Schwalbach . In 2016 his book about the architecture and urban planning of religious refugees in North America was published.

Web links

Publications (selection)

  • City of Refuge. Separatists and Utopian Town Planning . Princeton University Press, Princeton 1916, ISBN 978-0-691-17181-4 .
  • American Art and Architecture . Thames & Hudson, London 2006.
  • Gothic revival . Thames and Hudson, London 2002, ISBN 0-500-20359-8 .
  • Frank Furness. Architecture and the Violent Mind . WW Norton, New York 2001, ISBN 0-393-73063-8 .
  • Monument to Philanthropy: The Design and Building of Girard College, 1832–1848 (with Bruce Laverty and Michelle Taillon Taylor). Girard College, Philadelphia 1998.
  • Drawn from the Source: The Travel Drawings of Louis I. Kahn, catalog of an exhibition at the Williams College Museum of Art (with Eugene J. Johnson). MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1996.
  • La Geometry de la Fortification: Traites et Manuels, 1500-1800 / The Geometry of Defense, Catalog of an exhibition at the Canadian Center for Architecture. Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal 1992.
  • Frank Furness, The Complete Works. (with George E. Thomas and Jeffrey A. Cohen). Princeton Architectural Press, New York 1991/1996.
  • The Politics of the German Gothic Revival. Architectural History Foundation and MIT Press, New York 1993, ISBN 0-262-12177-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Birth of a German Academic Tradition. In: DB Brownlee (Ed.): Friedrich Weinbrenner - Architect of Karlsruhe . University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 1986, pp. 35-40 and 115-127.
  2. ^ Utopia and the well-ordered fortress: JM Schwalbach's town plans of 1635. In: Architectural History. 37, 1994, pp. 24-36.
personal data
SURNAME Lewis, Michael J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American architectural historian and critic
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1957