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Background
1975 Ph.D., History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
1967 M.A., History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
1964-65 History of Art, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
1964 A.B., German Language and Literature, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
1962-63 Junior year abroad at the Universität Hamburg, Germany
Research Interests
1) English Gothic architecture
current project: book, Reform, Kingship, and Building: Ideologies in Architecture
from Salisbury Cathedral to Westminster Abbey, c. 1216- 1250, book partially
written. The study explores patronage, meaning and ideology of forms,
the interaction between architecture and medieval society and its representation.
2) Urban building & secular architecture
A long-range project to examine secular building in particular, including
workshops, warehouses, cellars and undercrofts dormitories, refectories,
barns, etc., but also the "stripped-down" churches of the middle-class
towns and of the friars. Exploration of the social functions of building
types, broadening as it undercuts traditional categories of discourse.
Projected book on Medieval Urban Service Architecture.
3) Late German Gothic architecture
4) The Architectural Profession without "Architects," edited
volume, in planning
Anyone interested in contributing an essay, please contact me. The planned
focus is not restricted in time nor place.
5) Campus planning and architecture, specifically related to the development
of the Santa Cruz collegiate plan