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Anthony Alofsin

Anthony Alofsin (born June 22, 1949 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American architect, artist, art historian, writer, and professor.[1] Educated at Memphis Academy of Art and Phillips Academy, Andover, he received from Harvard College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, respectively, a Bachelor of Arts (1971) and Master of Architecture (1981). From Columbia University, he obtained a Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology (1987).

Anthony Alofsin
Born (1949-06-22) June 22, 1949 (age 74)
Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation
  • Architect
  • artist
  • art historian
  • writer
  • professor
NationalityAmerican
EducationMemphis Academy of Art
Phillips Academy
Harvard College (BA)
Harvard Graduate School of Design (MArch)
Columbia University (PhD)

Alofsin has written books on modern architecture and published numerous essays on architecture, art, and culture that have appeared in a variety of journals and reviews including The Times Literary Supplement, the Burlington Magazine, the New Criterion, and American Art. He was named Roland Gommel Roessner Centennial Professor Emeritus in Architecture in 2020 in recognition of his scholarship and teaching over thirty-three years at the University of Texas at Austin where he founded and directed the Ph.D. program in architectural history.[2]

In 2017 he began donating material to establish the Anthony Alofsin Archive at the University of Texas in Austin. The vast collection contains research materials, his teaching collection, and professional papers.[3]

Publications edit

He is the author of Wright and New York: the Making of America's Architect. The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians described it “as an exciting story, a cultural drama about power and intrigue, featuring Wright’s ambiguous love/hate relationship with New York City."[4] He wrote Dream Home, What You Need to Know Before You Buy, a guide for consumers buying a home in the suburbs. His Frank Lloyd Wright, Art Collector, is the first publication of Wright's unknown collection of German and Austrian art prints. His book When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Habsburg Empire and its Aftermath, 1867-1933 won the Vasari Award from the Dallas Museum of Art .;[5] a German language edition was published by the Verlag Anton Pustet in 2011. He is editor of A Modernist Museum in Perspective: The East Building, National Gallery of Art. He is the author of The Struggle for Modernism: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning at Harvard, the history of the Harvard Graduate School of Design from its beginnings through the 1960s.

Much of his scholarly writing has focused on issues of influence, how ideas are transmitted and transformed, on the concept of artistic transition as well as reception as an index of cultural and social meaning. He conducts a broad range of research activities including American modernism, Central European modern architecture, the history of ornament, the history of design education in architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning as well as ongoing research on Frank Lloyd Wright. He has written on the role of narrative in architecture and on the origins of regionalism in modern architecture.[2]

International recognition edit

Alofsin is internationally recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and as an expert on modern architecture.[6] In 2006, he received the Wright Spirit Award from the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy. The award honors an individual who, through artistic, architectural, scholarly, professional or other endeavors embodies the spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright. ' His pioneering study, Frank Lloyd Wright: the Lost Years, 1910-1922, is acknowledged to be one of the most important books on Wright in the last forty years;[6] the book was a winner in the monograph category in the American Institute of Architects International Book Awards.[7] Alofsin's other publications include the five-volume reference work, Frank Lloyd Wright: An Index to the Taliesin Correspondence, which won the Vasari Award of the Dallas Museum of Art.[8]

Alofsin was ranked “Best of the Best” and in the 90th percentile of research professors, academics, and dons among an international evaluation of schools of architecture by the Key Centre for Architectural Sociology.[9]

Alofsin has been named a Fellow, Helen Riaboff Whiteley Center; Fellow, Bogliasco Foundation, Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities; Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C; Fellow, MacDowell Colony; Fellow, the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna; Visiting Scholar, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation; Visiting Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Design; and Fulbright Professor, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.[1] In 2017 Alofsin was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, one of the highest honors given by the profession.[10]

Advice and practice edit

He has been active as a curator and adviser to several architectural exhibitions. He was consulting curator for the major retrospective Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He curated Prairie Skyscraper on Wright's Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and the exhibition Wright's Wasmuth Folios: Representing the Ideal, at the Ross Gallery, Columbia University.[2]

Alofsin maintains an architectural practice and his projects, which range in scale and style, have been frequently published. The sites of his projects include New Mexico, New York, and Texas. He also lectures internationally.[2]

Books edit

  • Alofsin, Anthony Wright and New York: The Making of America's Architect, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019.ISBN 9780300238853.
  • Alofsin, Anthony Dream Home: What You Need to Know Before You Buy, Austin:InnerformsLtd.com, 2013. ISBN 978-0982063033.
  • Alofsin, Anthony Frank Lloyd Wright, Art Collector, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0292737211
  • Alofsin, Anthony Architektur beim Wort nehmen. Bildhaft sprechende Baukunst des Habsburgerreiches und seiner Nachfolgestaaten 1867-1933, Salzburg: Verlag Anton Pustet, 2011. ISBN 978-3-7025-0630-8.
  • Alofsin, Anthony Halflife, A Fictive Memoir. Austin, TX: InnerformsLtd.com, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9820630-0-2.
  • Alofsin, Anthony, editor and essayist, A Modernist Museum in Perspective: The East Building, National Gallery of Art (Studies in the History of Art Series). Editor and essayist. New Haven: Yale University Press and National Gallery of Art, 2009.
  • Alofsin, Anthony, When Buildings Speak: Architecture As Language in the Habsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, 1867-1933, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 2006, ISBN 0-226-01506-8
  • Alofsin, Anthony, editor/co-author Prairie skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower, Price Tower Arts Center, Bartlesville OK; Rizzoli, New York 2005, ISBN 0-8478-2754-2
  • Alofsin, Anthony, The Struggle for Modernism: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning at Harvard, W. W. Norton, New York and London 2002, ISBN 0-393-73048-4
  • Alofsin, Anthony, editor, Frank Lloyd Wright: An Index to the Taliesin Correspondence, Garland Publishing, New York 1988 [five volumes]
  • Alofsin, Anthony, editor, Frank Lloyd Wright: Europe and Beyond, University of California Press, Berkeley CA 1999, ISBN 0-520-21116-2
  • Alofsin, Anthony, Frank Lloyd Wright--The Lost Years, 1910-1922: A Study of Influence, University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1993, ISBN 0-226-01366-9

References edit

  1. ^ a b Who's Who in America - 2012, 66th Edition (pub. 2011), Marquis Biographies on Line. http://search.marquiswhoswho.com/profile/100023439524
  2. ^ a b c d "[UTSOA] people". Soa.utexas.edu. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
  3. ^ www.architectmagazine.com http://www.architectmagazine.com/design/architect-anthony-alofsin-donates-his-archives-to-university-of-texas-libraries_c. Retrieved September 4, 2017. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)[title missing]
  4. ^ “Review: Frank Lloyd Wright and New York and Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco” web |url=https://online.ucpress.edu/jsah/article/81/2/243/185502/Review-Wright-and-New-York-The-Making-of-America-s_c June-2022 | website=https://www.sah.org//publications-and-research/jsah-online. Retrieved July 13, 2022
  5. ^ "Two Receive Vasari Awards in 2007: Anthony Alofsin and Randall C. Griffin". Archived from the original on December 11, 2012. Retrieved September 9, 2012.
  6. ^ a b . Utexas.edu. July 24, 2012. Archived from the original on November 10, 2012. Retrieved September 9, 2012.
  7. ^ "The American Institute of Architects - Awards Program, Awards". Aia.org. December 13, 2011. Retrieved September 9, 2012.
  8. ^ "Previous Winners of the Vasari Award - Dallas Museum of Art". Dm-art.org. Archived from the original on April 14, 2013. Retrieved September 9, 2012.
  9. ^ Gary Stevens, "Rating the Architecture Academics, Professors, and Dons in Research: 2010-13 Final Report." Key Centre for Architectural Sociology,2012. http://www.archsoc.com. See also http://www.archsoc.com/kcas/researchschool.html Retrieved 2012-11-19
  10. ^ . texasarchitects.org. Archived from the original on February 26, 2017.

External links edit

  • Books by Anthony Alofsin at Amazon.com  
  • Anthony Alofsin FAIA

anthony, alofsin, born, june, 1949, memphis, tennessee, american, architect, artist, historian, writer, professor, educated, memphis, academy, phillips, academy, andover, received, from, harvard, college, harvard, graduate, school, design, respectively, bachel. Anthony Alofsin born June 22 1949 in Memphis Tennessee is an American architect artist art historian writer and professor 1 Educated at Memphis Academy of Art and Phillips Academy Andover he received from Harvard College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design respectively a Bachelor of Arts 1971 and Master of Architecture 1981 From Columbia University he obtained a Ph D in Art History and Archaeology 1987 Anthony AlofsinBorn 1949 06 22 June 22 1949 age 74 Memphis Tennessee U S OccupationArchitect artist art historian writer professorNationalityAmericanEducationMemphis Academy of ArtPhillips AcademyHarvard College BA Harvard Graduate School of Design MArch Columbia University PhD Alofsin has written books on modern architecture and published numerous essays on architecture art and culture that have appeared in a variety of journals and reviews including The Times Literary Supplement the Burlington Magazine the New Criterion and American Art He was named Roland Gommel Roessner Centennial Professor Emeritus in Architecture in 2020 in recognition of his scholarship and teaching over thirty three years at the University of Texas at Austin where he founded and directed the Ph D program in architectural history 2 In 2017 he began donating material to establish the Anthony Alofsin Archive at the University of Texas in Austin The vast collection contains research materials his teaching collection and professional papers 3 Contents 1 Publications 2 International recognition 3 Advice and practice 4 Books 5 References 6 External linksPublications editHe is the author of Wright and New York the Making of America s Architect The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians described it as an exciting story a cultural drama about power and intrigue featuring Wright s ambiguous love hate relationship with New York City 4 He wrote Dream Home What You Need to Know Before You Buy a guide for consumers buying a home in the suburbs His Frank Lloyd Wright Art Collector is the first publication of Wright s unknown collection of German and Austrian art prints His book When Buildings Speak Architecture as Language in the Habsburg Empire and its Aftermath 1867 1933 won the Vasari Award from the Dallas Museum of Art 5 a German language edition was published by the Verlag Anton Pustet in 2011 He is editor of A Modernist Museum in Perspective The East Building National Gallery of Art He is the author of The Struggle for Modernism Architecture Landscape Architecture and City Planning at Harvard the history of the Harvard Graduate School of Design from its beginnings through the 1960s Much of his scholarly writing has focused on issues of influence how ideas are transmitted and transformed on the concept of artistic transition as well as reception as an index of cultural and social meaning He conducts a broad range of research activities including American modernism Central European modern architecture the history of ornament the history of design education in architecture landscape architecture and city planning as well as ongoing research on Frank Lloyd Wright He has written on the role of narrative in architecture and on the origins of regionalism in modern architecture 2 International recognition editAlofsin is internationally recognized as one of the world s leading authorities on the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and as an expert on modern architecture 6 In 2006 he received the Wright Spirit Award from the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy The award honors an individual who through artistic architectural scholarly professional or other endeavors embodies the spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright His pioneering study Frank Lloyd Wright the Lost Years 1910 1922 is acknowledged to be one of the most important books on Wright in the last forty years 6 the book was a winner in the monograph category in the American Institute of Architects International Book Awards 7 Alofsin s other publications include the five volume reference work Frank Lloyd Wright An Index to the Taliesin Correspondence which won the Vasari Award of the Dallas Museum of Art 8 Alofsin was ranked Best of the Best and in the 90th percentile of research professors academics and dons among an international evaluation of schools of architecture by the Key Centre for Architectural Sociology 9 Alofsin has been named a Fellow Helen Riaboff Whiteley Center Fellow Bogliasco Foundation Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts National Gallery of Art Washington D C Fellow MacDowell Colony Fellow the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften Vienna Visiting Scholar the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Visiting Fellow Harvard Graduate School of Design and Fulbright Professor Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 1 In 2017 Alofsin was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects one of the highest honors given by the profession 10 Advice and practice editHe has been active as a curator and adviser to several architectural exhibitions He was consulting curator for the major retrospective Frank Lloyd Wright Architect at the Museum of Modern Art in New York He curated Prairie Skyscraper on Wright s Price Tower in Bartlesville Oklahoma and the exhibition Wright s Wasmuth Folios Representing the Ideal at the Ross Gallery Columbia University 2 Alofsin maintains an architectural practice and his projects which range in scale and style have been frequently published The sites of his projects include New Mexico New York and Texas He also lectures internationally 2 Books editAlofsin Anthony Wright and New York The Making of America s Architect New Haven and London Yale University Press 2019 ISBN 9780300238853 Alofsin Anthony Dream Home What You Need to Know Before You Buy Austin InnerformsLtd com 2013 ISBN 978 0982063033 Alofsin Anthony Frank Lloyd Wright Art Collector Austin University of Texas Press 2012 ISBN 978 0292737211 Alofsin Anthony Architektur beim Wort nehmen Bildhaft sprechende Baukunst des Habsburgerreiches und seiner Nachfolgestaaten 1867 1933 Salzburg Verlag Anton Pustet 2011 ISBN 978 3 7025 0630 8 Alofsin Anthony Halflife A Fictive Memoir Austin TX InnerformsLtd com 2009 ISBN 978 0 9820630 0 2 Alofsin Anthony editor and essayist A Modernist Museum in Perspective The East Building National Gallery of Art Studies in the History of Art Series Editor and essayist New Haven Yale University Press and National Gallery of Art 2009 Alofsin Anthony When Buildings Speak Architecture As Language in the Habsburg Empire and Its Aftermath 1867 1933 University of Chicago Press Chicago and London 2006 ISBN 0 226 01506 8 Alofsin Anthony editor co author Prairie skyscraper Frank Lloyd Wright s Price Tower Price Tower Arts Center Bartlesville OK Rizzoli New York 2005 ISBN 0 8478 2754 2 Alofsin Anthony The Struggle for Modernism Architecture Landscape Architecture and City Planning at Harvard W W Norton New York and London 2002 ISBN 0 393 73048 4 Alofsin Anthony editor Frank Lloyd Wright An Index to the Taliesin Correspondence Garland Publishing New York 1988 five volumes Alofsin Anthony editor Frank Lloyd Wright Europe and Beyond University of California Press Berkeley CA 1999 ISBN 0 520 21116 2 Alofsin Anthony Frank Lloyd Wright The Lost Years 1910 1922 A Study of Influence University of Chicago Press Chicago 1993 ISBN 0 226 01366 9References edit a b Who s Who in America 2012 66th Edition pub 2011 Marquis Biographies on Line http search marquiswhoswho com profile 100023439524 a b c d UTSOA people Soa utexas edu Retrieved November 14 2020 www architectmagazine com http www architectmagazine com design architect anthony alofsin donates his archives to university of texas libraries c Retrieved September 4 2017 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a Missing or empty title help title missing Review Frank Lloyd Wright and New York and Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco web url https online ucpress edu jsah article 81 2 243 185502 Review Wright and New York The Making of America s c June 2022 website https www sah org publications and research jsah online Retrieved July 13 2022 Two Receive Vasari Awards in 2007 Anthony Alofsin and Randall C Griffin Archived from the original on December 11 2012 Retrieved September 9 2012 a b Frank Lloyd Wright scholar wins Wright Spirit Award Oct 3 2006 News release University of Texas Utexas edu July 24 2012 Archived from the original on November 10 2012 Retrieved September 9 2012 The American Institute of Architects Awards Program Awards Aia org December 13 2011 Retrieved September 9 2012 Previous Winners of the Vasari Award Dallas Museum of Art Dm art org Archived from the original on April 14 2013 Retrieved September 9 2012 Gary Stevens Rating the Architecture Academics Professors and Dons in Research 2010 13 Final Report Key Centre for Architectural Sociology 2012 http www archsoc com See also http www archsoc com kcas researchschool html Retrieved 2012 11 19 2017 Texas Fellows Texas Society of Architects AIA texasarchitects org Archived from the original on February 26 2017 External links editBooks by Anthony Alofsin at Amazon com nbsp Anthony Alofsin FAIA Anthony Alofsin Architect Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Anthony Alofsin amp oldid 1206933350, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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