Robert Campbell (journalist)
Robert Campbell (born March 31, 1937 in Buffalo, New York)[1] is a writer and architect. He is currently the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the Boston Globe. He lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Education
Campbell is a graduate of Harvard College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he received the Appleton Traveling Fellowship and Francis Kelley Prize.
Career
Architect and critic
Campbell entered private practice as an architect in 1975, as a consultant for the improvement or expansion of cultural institutions, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He has been an urban design consultant to cities and is an advisor to the Mayors' Institute on City Design,[2] which he helped found.
In 1997 he was architect-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome. In 2002 he helped plan and appeared in a television series, “Beyond the Big Dig”.
Poet and photographer
Campbell's poems have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and Harvard Review, among other publications. His photographs have also been published widely.
Teaching
Campbell has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Boston Architectural College, and the University of North Carolina. He also is a former Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1993-2002 he was visiting Sam Gibbons Eminent Scholar in Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of South Florida, and in 2002 he was Max Fisher Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan. In 2003 he was a Senior Fellow in the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University.
Awards
In 1996, Campbell won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he has received the AIA’s Medal for Criticism; the Commonwealth Award of the Boston Society of Architects; a Design Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1976); and grants from the Graham Foundation and the J. M. Kaplan Fund. Mr. Campbell was the 2004 recipient of the Award of Honor from the Boston Society of Architects. In 2002 he won a national Columbia Dupont Award for "Beyond the Big Dig". He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Campbell is also a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council.[3]
Partial bibliography
- 1992: (with Peter Vanderwarker) Cityscapes of Boston: an American city through time. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-58119-2.
- 2002: (with Curtis W. Fentress, et al.) Civic builders. Academy Press. ISBN 0-471-49876-9.
External links
References
- ↑ Heinz Dietrich Fischer, Erika J. Fischer - Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners, 1917-2000
- ↑ "Mayors' Institute on City Design Participants - C".
- ↑ Design Futures Council Senior Fellows http://www.di.net/about/senior_fellows/
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