Turpin Bannister

Turpin Chambers Bannister (* 1904 in Lima , Ohio; † March 15, 1982 in Williston , Florida ) was an American architectural historian. He taught for many years at the University of Illinois and the University of Florida .

Life

Bannister graduated from Denison University in Granville, Ohio , with a BA in 1925 , and received a master's degree from Columbia University in 1928 . From 1932 to 1944 he taught at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute . During the Great Depression, he took part in Works Projects Administration (WPA) projects .

Bannister was one of the initiators who initiated the founding of an association of architectural historians during the 1938 Harvard Summer Session. On July 31, 1940, he was elected the first president of today's Society of Architectural Historians , whose journal he directed for many years.

Bannister graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Harvard in 1944 with a Ph.D. from. After four years in Alabama, he began teaching at the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1948 as a professor of architecture. After ten years he moved to the University of Florida, but suffered a stroke in 1965 .

The enthusiastic " Fraternity man" was a member of numerous student and professional associations. He published frequently and on a variety of topics.

Fonts

• An introduction to architecture (1937)
• Iron and architecture: A study in building and invention from Ancient Times to 1700 (1944)
• One hundred books on architecture (1945)
• The architecture of the octagon in New York State (1945)
• Modern architecture: A syllabus of buildings illustrating the development of architecture since the mid-eighteenth century (1957)
• Medieval architecture: A syllabus of buildings illustrating the development of European architecture from the fourth through the fifteenth centuries (1959)
• Oglethorpe's sources for the Savannah plan (1961)
• The Constantinian basilica of Saint Peter at Rome (1968)

Web links

• Kurzbiografie (English)