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ROBERT BRUEGMANN
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EDUCATION
Mount Lebanon High School, graduated 1966
Principia College, BA. 1970 with highest honors
University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. 1976
Dissertation: The Architecture of the Hospital 1770-1870: Design and Technology.
Supervisor: Prof. David Van Zanten
UNIVERSITY POSITIONS
University of Pennsylvania, Teaching Fellow 1971-72
University of Pennsylvania, Head Teaching Fellow 1972-74
Philadelphia Community College, Lecturer, 1975-76
Philadelphia College of Art, Lecturer, 1976-77
University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Art History
Assistant Professor 1977-83
Associate Professor 1983-1993
Director of Preservation Program 1977-83
Director of Graduate Study 1987-90
Professor 1994- Present, in Department of Art History, School of Architecture, Program
in Urban Planning
Chairperson, 2001- 2006
University Distinguished Professor of Art History, Architecture, Urban Planning, 2008- present
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art History, Architecture, Urban Planning, 2010 to present
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture, Program in History, Theory and
Criticism, Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall 1981
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Visiting
Associate Professor, Fall 1989
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Preservation
Program, Visiting Professor, Fall 2001
SELECTED UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Chairperson, Art History Department, 2002-06
Member, Search Committee for Head, School of Architecture
Member, Search Committee for Dean of College of Architecture and the Arts
Chair, Program Committee appointed by Provost to prepare plans for expanded Jane Addams
Hull-House Museum, 1998-99
Member, Graduate College Executive Committee, 1997-2000
Member, Institute for the Humanities Executive Committee, 1996-2000
Member, Ad Hoc Committee appointed by Provost to report on GIS usage on campus, 2000-04
Member, University of Illinois Press Board, 1997-2000
Member, UIC Senate Committee on the Library, 2003-05
Member, Campus Promotions and Tenure Committee, 2007-2010
Member, Jane Addams Hull-House Advisory board, 2006-present
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service
Historian, State of Indiana Survey, summer 1973
Historic American Buildings Survey, National Park Service
Historian, Eastern Indiana summer 1974
San Diego, Calif. summer 1975
Benicia, Calif. summer 1976
Supervisor, Santa Clara Co. Calif. summer 1977, 1978
HONORS AND AWARDS
Teaching Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1972-74
Head Teaching Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 1973-74
Penfield Scholarship in Diplomacy, International Affairs and Belles lettres for research in Europe, academic year 1973-74
Founder's Award, Society of Architectural Historians 1978 for best article by a young scholar in
the Society's journal for that year
University of Illinois at Chicago, Faculty summer fellowship, summer 1980
Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities 1983-84
Fellowship, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Arts, 1985
Senior Fellowship, Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University, 1989-90
Fellowship, Institute for the Humanities, U. of Illinois at Chicago, 1992-93
Scholarship, Great Cities Institute, U. of Illinois at Chicago 1998-99
Spiro Kostof Award for best book on Architecture and Urbanism, 1996-97, Society of
Architectural Historians, 1998
Scholarship, Great Cities Institute, U. of Illinois at Chicago, fall 2006
University Scholar, UIC, 2006
Distinguished University Professorship, fall 2008
PUBLICATIONS
1. Books written
Benicia: Portrait of an Early California Town: An Architectural History, 1846 to the Present, 101 Productions, San Francisco, 1980. Review in Journal of Society of Architectural Historians, Oct. 1982.
Holabird & Roche/Holabird & Root, Catalog of Work 1910-1940, three volumes, Garland Publishing Co., New York, 1991. Reviews in Journal of Society of Architectural Historians, June 1992 and Design Book Review, Winter 1992.
The Architects and the City: Holabird and Roche of Chicago 1880-1918 , University of Chicago
Press, 1997. This book was the recipient of the Spiro Kostof Book Award for
Architecture and Urbanism of the Society of Architecture Historians, 1998, “judged to be
the best work published in 1996 and 1997 contributing to our understanding of the physical environment” Reviews in New York Times Book Review, Nov. 2, 1997, Urban History, Oct. 1999, Journal of American History, Sept. 1998, Business History, July 1998, Times Literary Supplement, Nov. 7, 1997, New Criterion, Jan. 1998
Sprawl: A Compact History, University of Chicago Press, November, 2005. Reviews to be found on website at
The Architecture of Harry Weese, W. W. Norton, 2010. Reviews at
The Way We Live Now: Case Studies in Sprawl, in preparation
The Architects and the Metropolis: Holabird & Root of Chicago 1919-1945 in preparation
Book on the Life and Work of Architect Walter Netsch, in preparation
2. Books Edited
A Guide to 150 Years of Chicago Architecture, Chicago Review Press, 1985 (With Paul Florian,
Cynthia Weese) Accompanied exhibition "150 Years of Chicago Architecture" Museum
of Science and Industry, Chicago.
Modernism at Mid-Century: The Architecture of the United States Air Force Academy
University of Chicago Press, 1994. Wrote Introduction, Chapter entitled “Military Culture, Architectural Culture, Popular Culture,” Epilogue.
Art Deco Chicago, a publication for the Chicago Art Deco Society. Will edit and write
Essay. CityFiles Press. In preparation
3. Essays for books of multiple authorship
"Architecture Confronts Technology: A Historical Perspective," in Energy Conservation through
Building Design, Edited Donald Watson, McGraw Hill, 1978 (With Donald Prowler)
"Preservation, Conservation, Restoration," in An International Handbook of Contemporary
Developments in Architecture, Edited Warren Sanderson, Greenwood Press, 1981.
"HABS in the Awkward Years," in Historic America, Edited by Ford Peatross, Washington,
Library of Congress, 1983.
"Post-Modernism" in Encyclopedia of Modern Architecture, Revised edition, Thames and
Hudson, 1985.
“Urban Elements,” Introductory text for Ralph Johnson of Perkins & Will, Rizzoli International,
1995.
“The American City: Urban Aberration or Glimpse of the Future?” in Joseph Tulchin and Blair
Ruble, editors, Preparing for the Urban Future: Global Pressures and Local Forces,
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, pp. 336-367.
“The Paradoxes of Urban Sprawl Reform,” in Robert Freestone, (ed.) Urban Planning in a
Changing World: The Twentieth Century Experience, E&F Spon, 2000, 158-174
“Martin Roche,” in Jon A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, American National Biography, Oxford
University Press, 1999, Vol. 18, pp. 689-690.
“Urban Sprawl,” in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, ed. Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, Pergamon, 2002.
“Urban Density and Sprawl: An Historic Perspective,” in Smarter Growth: Market-Based
Strategies for Land Use Planning for the 21st Century, edited by Randall G. Holcombe and Samuel R. Staley, Greenwood Press, 2001.
“Built Environment,” one of approximately nineteen interpretive essays for James Grossman, Jan
Reiff and Ann Durkin Keating, Eds., The Encyclopedia of Chicago, University of
Chicago Press, 2005
“Architecture and Pragmatism: An Historian’s Perspective,” in Joan Ockman Editor,
Architecture and the Pragmatist Imagination, tentative title, Museum of Modern Art, Prestel Verlag, forthcoming, publication expected 2006
“The Myth of the Chicago School,” in Charles Waldheim and Katerina Ruedi Ray, Chicago Architecture Histories, Revisions, Alternatives, University of Chicago Press, 2005, pp. 15-29
“Meeting Walter” in Walter A. Netsch, FAIA: A Crtiical Appreciation and Sourcebook, Northwestern University Press, 2008
“Urban Sprawl” in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, ed.
James D. Wright, forthcoming
“Vorortsiedlung” or “Urban Sprawl” in Enzyklopadie des gestaltetn RaumsEncyclopedia of Designed Space, Ed. By Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani and Konstanze Sylva Domhardt, forthcoming
“The Auditorium Building,” in Alexander Eisenschmidt and Jonathan Mekinda, Chicagoisms: The City as Catalyst for Architectural Speculations, 2013.
4. Book Forwards and Introductions
“Introduction” to Christopher Domin and Joseph King, Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses,
Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.
“The Architect as Urbanist,” in Roberto de Alba editor, Paul Rudolph The Late Work,
Princeton Architectural Press, 2003
Foreword to Let’s Build: Why We Need Five Million New Homes over the Next Ten Years,
By James Heartfield, Audacity, 2006
5. Journal Articles on History of Architecture and Urban Development
"The Energy Crisis, A Pre-History," in Journal of Architectural Education, Spring 1977.
"Early Central Heating and Forced Ventilation and Architectural Design," Journal of the Society
of Architectural Historians, Oct. 1978. Winner of SAH Founder's Award for best article by a young scholar
"The Tribune Competition: The Metropolis of the 1920s," Inland Architect, June 1980
"Holabird and Roche and Holabird and Root, the First Two Generations," Chicago History, Fall
1980. Served as catalogue for the show of the same name at the Chicago Historical Society
"Two Post-Modernist Visions of Urban Design," Landscape, Summer 1982, pp. 31-37.
"Little Journeys to the Offices of the Architects," Inland Architect May-June 1983, pp. 8-29
Served as catalogue for "New Chicago Architecture" show at Art Institute of Chicago.
"Architecture without the Capital A: Documentation in a Post-Modern World" Art
Documentation,
"LaSalle Street," (With Peter Hales) Chicago History, Winter 1985-86, pp. 22-43.
The ACSA Conference on the Chicago World Fair of 1992," in Central: Papers on Architecture,
Winter 1987, pp. 143-147.
"Planning for Today's Downtown," Inland Architect, Nov.-Dec. 1987, pp. 36-42.
"The Colossus of North Michigan Avenue: Urban Implications," (On John Hancock Center,
Chicago) in Design Book Review, Fall 1988
"Music and the Friendly Skies" (On tunnel at United Terminal) Twenty-One, 20/1, fall 1989,
pp. 6-17.
"The Art Institute Expands: Challenges of Mid-Century," in Museum Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1,
1988, pp. 57-82
"Spiro Kostof" in Chicago Architectural Club Journal, 1990
"The Rational Tradition: An interview with Ralph Johnson," in Inland Architect, Mar-Apr 1991,
pp. 50-53.
"The Marquette Building and the Myth of the Chicago School," Threshold, 1991. Reprinted in
Charles Waldheim and Katerina Ruedi Ray, Chicago Architecture Histories, Revisions, Alternatives, University of Chicago Press, 2005, pp. 15-29
"United Airlines Terminal One," in Alice Sinkevtich, Ed., AIA Guide to Chicago Architecture,
1993, pp. 264-265.
“Land Use Regulation, House Prices and the New Social Contract” in Wharton Real Estate Review spring 2007
“A Chapel takes flight (United States Air Force Academy Chapel), First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, Oct., 2010.
“Ben Weese has long maintained a steady, calm hand in building and in community activism,” Chicago Architect Nov. 2011
6. Exhibition Catalog Essays
"Daniel Burnham, Jules Guerin and the Image of the City," in The Plan of Chicago: 1909-1979,
exhibition catalogue for show at the Art Institute of Chicago. Ed. John Zukowsky,
Art Institute of Chicago, 1979
"Utilitas, Firmitas , Venustas and the Vox Populi, A Context for Controversy," in The Critical
Edge, Ed. Tod Marder for exhibition organized by Rutgers University. Rutgers Art Museum and MIT Press, 1985
"Panorama," (With Sabra Clark) in Robert Bruegmann, Cynthia Weese and Paul Florian,
150 Years of Chicago Architecture, 1985
"When Worlds Collided: European and American Entries to the Chicago Tribune Competition of
1922" in Chicago Architecture 1872-1922: Birth of a Metropolis, for show organized at the Art Institute of Chicago. Ed. John Zukowsky, Art Institute of Chicago, 1987
Paul Rudolph: Four Recent Projects in Southeast Asia, booklet for Art Institute of Chicago
show at Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, Chicago, 1987
"From the City Beautiful to the Jazz Age City" essay for catalog Fragments of Chicago's Past,
Ed. Pauline Saliga, Art Institute of Chicago, 1990
"The Pencil and the Electronic Sketchpad: Architectural Representation and the Computer"
in Eve Blau and Ned Kaufman, Editors, Architecture and its Image, catalog of
inaugural show at Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, 1989
Dreams and Details, booklet for exhibition on the work of Paul Rudolph, Steelcase Design
Partnership exhibition space, New York, 1989
"Schaumburg, Oak Brook, Rosemont and the Recentering of the Chicago Metropolitan Area," in
John Zukowsky, Editor, Chicago Architecture and Design 1923-93, catalog for show at
Art Institute of Chicago, 1993
"Chicago Avenue Armory" in Art at the Armory, for installations show at the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1992.
"Herbert Tullgren and America in the 1930s," in Brian Wishne, Editor, Architecture of Herbert
W. Tullgren, 1992
“Airport City,” in John Zukowsky, Editor, Building for Air Travel: Architecture and Design for
Commercial Aviation, for exhibition on the architecture of air travel at the Art Institute of
Chicago, Prestel Verlag, 1996.
“In Search of the Middle Class Landscape,” in Cities of Promise: Imaging Urban California, Orange County Museum of Art, 2004.
“The Aesthetics of Sprawl” in Andrew Blauvelt, Editor, Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, Walker Art Center and Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, 2008
“Broadacre City and Sprawl,” in Multiple City. City Concepts 1908.2008. Catalog for Exhibition in the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2008
7. Criticism of Recent Architecture and Urban Development
"What Price Preservation?" Planning, June 1980. Reprinted in National Trust for Historic
Preservation, Preservation Policy Research, 1985.
"Relighting the Skyline," Inland Architect, March-April 1982
"Rowhouse Revival" (On City Commons and other new Chicago rowhouse complexes) Inland
Architect, Jan.-Feb. 1987, pp. 27-34.
"High Flight: United Gambles and Wins at O'Hare," (On new United Terminal by Murphy/Jahn)
Inland Architect, Sept. 1988.
"The Suburban Corporate Landscape," (On landscape at TRW, Lyndhurst, Ohio; McDonald's,
Oakbrook, Ill.; Carlson Center, Minnetonka, Minn.) Inland Architect, Sept.-Oct. 1989
"The New Main Street" (On speculative office buildings along the expressways) Inland Architect, Nov.-Dec. 1990
"Eclectic New Look for the Italian Village," (restaurant design by Jordan Mozer) in Inland
Architect, Jan./Feb. 1991, pp. 7-10.
"Local Asymmetries" (On Morton International Building and Orland Park Civic Center by Ralph
Johnson of Perkins and Will) in Inland Architect, Mar.-Apr. 1991, pp. 43-49.
"Preservation's Touchstone," (On Rookery Building restoration), Inland Architect, July-Aug. 1992, pp. 50-57.
"Vox Populi," (On discount malls and strip centers) Inland Architect, July-August 1992.
“The End of Cities: An Urban Legend,” Washington Post, Outlook Section, Nov. 25, 2001, p. 2.
“How Sprawl Got a Bad Name,” American Enterprise, June, 2006
“LA The King of Sprawl? Not at All,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 23, 2005
8. Magazine Issues edited
(With Roberta Feldman) "Affordable Housing" issue of Inland Architect, Sept. 1993.
9. Reviews Essays
Review of Michel Foucault et al, Les machines a guérir: à l'origine de l'hopital moderne, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Oct. 1978
Review of Vittorio Lampugnani, Architecture of the 20th century in Drawings, in Design Book Review, Summer 1983
Review of Library of Congress, Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress, in Journal of the Socety of Architectural Historians, May 1985, pp. 174-175
Review of Robert Twombly, Louis Sullivan His Life and Work, David Andrew, Louis Sullivan and the Polemics of Modern Architecture, in Design Book Review, 1987
Review of Victoria Newhouse, Wallace K. Harrison, Architect, in Architectural Record, Jan. 1990
Review of Richard Plunz, A History of Housing in New York City, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1992, pp. 105-06 with letter from Plunz and reply by Robert Bruegmann in Dec. 1992 issue.
Review of Zeynip Celik, Diane Favro and Richard Ingersoll, editors,Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1998.
Review of Michael J. Dear, H. Eric Schockman and Greg Hise, editors, Rethinking Los Angeles, in Journal of the American Planning Association, Oct. 1997
Review of Andres Duany and Jeff Speck, The Smart Growth Manual, in Architecture, Fall 2010
Review of Alice Friedman, American Glamour in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Dec. 2011
Review of Louise Mozingo, Pastoral Capitalism, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2013.
Review of Nicholas Phelps, Anatomy of Sprawl in Built Environment, forthcoming
Review of Building Home: Howard F. Ahmanson and the Politics of the American Dream, in Wall Street Journal, March 5, 2013
10. Newspaper, magazine and blog essays and Op-Ed pieces
“Urban Myths: Sprawl gets a bad press but it has given us privacy, mobility and choice” in The Guardian (London), Jan. 28, 2006
“L.A. the king of sprawl? Not at all” in Los Angeles Times, Oct. 23, 2005
“Poor Misunderstood Sprawl,” in New York Times, July 9, 2006
“Gridlock, schmidlock: LA traffic isn’t as bad as you think. Try driving 60 mph through the center of Paris” in Los Angeles Times, July 9, 2006
“A Defense of Sprawl,” California Builder, Nov.-Dec. 2006, pp. 16-18.
“How should we be thinking about urbanization?” essay in Freakonomics Quorum, New YorkTimes, Dec. 12, 2007 (also invited: James Howard Kunstler, Edward Glaeser, Dolores Hayden, Alan Berube).
Series of five pieces for Los Angeles Times “Dust-Up.” A week-long “debate” public transportation advocate Gloria Ohland published in the paper Monday through Friday, during the week of June 18, 2007.
“In Defense of Sprawl” Forbes.com June 2007
“The Ambiguous Triumph of the “Urban” in newgeography.com, Sept. 2011
AIA Lifetime Achievement Award 2011: Ben Weese has long maintained a steady calm hand in building and in community activism, in Chicago Architect, Nov./Dec. 2011
“Moving out in Madrid,” in Room for Debate, NYT.com, June 28, 2011
Letter to the Editor, in New York Times, Dec. 5, 2011
“Housing Affordability and Public Policy” for Demographia.comannual affordability review and republished in newgeography.com, Jan. 26, 2012
”Driverless car could defy the rules of Sprawl,” Bloomberg view, Feb. 21, 2012, republished in numerous newspapers worldwide.
“Hate Freeways? You Aren't Doing Your City Any Favors. Freeway Phobia Can Hurt Cities, Not Fix Them” Bloomberg View, Apr. 2012
11. Electronic Publications
Traveling Fellows: Fifteen Years of Years of Student Awards by the Skidmore, Owings &
Merrill Foundation, printed booklet and CD ROM, CD design and production by Spliteye Multi-Media New York, 1997, distribution arrangement pending.
The Chicago Imagebase Project, co-founder (with Peter B. Hales) interactive World Wide Web
site including images and other data about the built environment of the Chicago metropolitan area allowing database searches and visual navigation via html image maps and Geographic Information System (GIS). Funding from office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Illinois, NEH and other sources. Site inaugurated 1996. Administered by City Design Center, College of Architecture and the Arts.
12. Interviews and Other publications
Various articles in the Christian Science Monitor, Preservation News, 11593 and other publications
"New Centers on the Periphery," Interview between Robert Bruegmann and Tim Davis in Center
Magazine, Vol. 7, 1992, pp. 26-43, on conference at University of Texas, Austin (See