Books

The Politics of the German Gothic Revival (New York: Architectural History Foundation and MIT Press)  Winner Alice Davis Hitchcock Prize

Frank Furness, The Complete Works, co-author with George E. Thomas and Jeffrey A. Cohen (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993); revised edition 1996

Drawn from the Source: The Travel Drawings of Louis I. Kahn, catalogue of an exhibition at the Williams College of Art, co-author with Eugene J. Johnson (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996)

Monument to Philanthropy: The Design and Building of Girard College, 1832-1848, co-author with Bruce Laverty and Michelle Taillon Taylor (Philadelphia: Girard College, 1998)

Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind (New York, W. W. Norton, 2001)

The Gothic Revival (Thames and Hudson, 2002), Japanese translation, 2004

American Art and Architecture (Thames & Hudson, 2006)

 

Scholarship

“The Architectural Competition for the Philadelphia Academy of Music, 1854-1855,” Nineteenth Century 16, no. 2 (1997), 3-10

“The Architectural Library of Henry A. Sims,” in Kenneth Hafertepe and James F. O’Gorman, ed., American Buildings and their Architects, 1840-1915 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), 173-193

“August Reichensperger,” “Karl Wilhelm von Bötticher,” “Joseph von Görres,” “Rundbogenstil,” “Vincenz Statz” and “Georg Gottlob Ungewitter,” in The Dictionary of Art, Jane Turner, ed. (New York: Grove, 1996)

“The Birth of a German Academic Tradition,” in Friedrich Weinbrenner: Architect of Karlsruhe, D. B. Brownlee, ed. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania,1986), 35-40; 115-127

“Cologne Cathedral,” “Bruce Price” and other encyclopedia articles, International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture, R. J. Van Wynckt, ed. (Chicago: St. James Press, 1993)

“E. Francis Baldwin and American Architecture,” Introduction to Carlos P. Avery, E. Francis Baldwin: The B&O, Baltimore, and Beyond (Baltimore: Baltimore Architecture Foundation, 2003), xv - xvii

“Eleanor Donnelley Erdman Hall,” “The Dominican Mother House of St. Catherine de Ricci,” in Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture, D. B. Brownlee and D. DeLong, eds. (New York: Rizzoli, 1991), 352-357; 384-389

“Father Rapp’s Garden at Economy,” with LuAnn DeCunzo, et al, in Landscape Archaeology: Studies in Reading and Interpreting the American Historical Landscape, R. Yamin and K. B. Metheny, eds. (U. of Tennessee Press, 1996), 91-117

“The First Design for Fairmount Park,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography CXXX, no. 3 (July 2006),  283-297

La Geometrie de la Fortification: Traites et Manuels, 1500 - 1800/ The Geometry of Defense, Catalogue of an exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1992)

“Die Hamburger Baukultur in der ersten Hälfte des 19ten Jahrhunderts,” in David Klemm and Hartmut Frank, eds., Alexis de Chateauneuf 1799-1853, Architekt in Hamburg, London und Oslo, (Hamburg: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 2000), 27-35

“He was not a connoisseur: Peter Widener and his House,” Nineteenth Century 12, nos. 3 and 4 (1993), 27-36

“Kahn and the Belated Monument,” in Coming to Light: The Louis I. Kahn Monument to Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York City (New York: Cooper Union School of Architecture, 2005), 22-25

“Library of Congress Competition,” “Philadelphia City Hall Tower” and other entries and biographies in Drawing Toward Building: Philadelphia Architectural Graphics, J. F. O’Gorman, ed., (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1986)

“Niagara Falls” and “Study of a Girl (Fanette Reider),” in American Dreams, American Art to 1950 in the Williams College Museum of Art, Nancy Mowll Matthews, ed. (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2001), 72-72, 117-120

“A Nicholson in America,” Alexander Thomson Society Newsletter (May, 2003), 6-19

Introduction to Randolph W. Chalfant and Charles Belfoure, Niernsee and Nielson, Architects of Baltimore (Baltimore: Baltimore Architecture Foundation), ix-xiv

“Owen Biddle and the Young Carpenter’s Assistant”“ in Kenneth Hafertepe and James F. O’Gorman, eds., American Architects and their Books Before 1848 (University of Massachusetts, 2001), 149-163

“Paestumstil in Fachwerk: Eine Anmerkung zu Weinbrenner in Hannover,” in Georg Hoeltje Festschrift, Günther Kokkelink and Sid Auffahrt, eds. (Hanover, Germany: Institut für Bau- und Kunstgeschichte, 1987)

“The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as Building and as Idea,” in The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: 200 Years of Excellence, 1805-2005 (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts), 63-73

“Philadelphie, l’utopie modest de William Penn,” in De l’Esprit des villes: Nancy et l’Europe urbaine au siècle des Lumières 1720-1770 (Nancy, 2005), 295-297

“Der Rundbogenstil und die Karlsruhe-Philadelphia Achse,” in Dauer und Wechsel: Festschrift für  Harold Hammer-Schenck (Berlin: Lukas Verlag, 2004), 128-138

“‘Silent, Weird, Beautiful’: Philadelphia City Hall,” Nineteenth Century 11, nos. 3 and 4 (1992), 13-21

Toys that Teach, Catalogue of an exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1992)

“Utopia and the well-ordered fortress: J. M. Schwalbach’s town plans of 1635”, Architectural History 37 (1994), 24-36

“Wilhelm Lorenz: Die Hannoversche Schule in Amerika,” Günther Kokkelink Festschrift, Stefan Amt, ed. (Hanover, Germany: Institut für Bau- und Kunstgeschichte, 1999), 143-150

 

Criticism

“After the Art Wars,” Commentary 125, no. 1 (January 2008), 31-36

“All sail, no anchor”: architecture after modernism,” New Criterion 22, no. 4 (December 2003), 4-16

“American Sublime,” New Criterion 21, no. 1 (September 2002), 27-33

“An Art Teacher’s Art Teacher,” Commentary 123, no. 4 (April 2007), pp. 58-62

“The American View of Landscape,” New Criterion 18, no. 8 (April 2000), 4-13.  Reprinted in SIRS electronic data base

“Architecture (Bling!)”, Commentary 118, no. 3 (October 2004), 71-75

“Art History, Oxford Style,” New Criterion 21, no. 4 (December 2002), 17-21

“Art, Politics and Clement Greenberg,” Commentary no. 6 (June 1998), 57-61

“Body and Soul,” Commentary 123, no. 1 (January 2007), pp.

“Cartooning, Left and Right,” Commentary 116, no. 3 (October 2003), 67-22.  Reprinted in Currents, December, 2003

“Fiasco at Ground Zero,” New Criterion 24, no. 4 (December 2005), 10-15

“From Bauhaus to Bilbao,” Commentary vol. 112, no. 2 (September 2001), 40-45

“The Guggenheim in Bilbao,” New Criterion 17, no. 10 (June 1999), 52-54.

“Homer, Hopper and the Critics,” New Criterion 15, no. 1 (September 1996), 74-80

“How Bad is the Getty?” Commentary no. 3 (March 1998), 64-68

“The Idea of the American Building,” in G. E. Kidder Smith, Sourcebook of American Architecture (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996), 3-16

“In What Style Should We Write?” [text of plenary address at 2003 SAH conference], Newsletter of the Society of Architectural Historians XLIX, no. 4 (August 2005), 2-4.

“Into the Void with Daniel Libeskind,” Commentary 115, no. 5 (May 2003), 40-44

“Louis Sullivan After Functionalism” New Criterion (September 2001), 50-57 

“Mourning Without Meaning,” Commentary 114, no. 4, (November 2002), 56-60

“Of Kitsch and Coins,” Commentary no. 3 (October 1999), 32-36

“The Master of Drip,” Commentary no. 1 (February 1999), 56-60

“McKim, Mead and White’s Architectural Citizenship,” New Criterion 25, no. 1 (September 2006), 77-83

“Modernism without Program,” in American Architectural Masterpieces (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992), xvii – xxi

“MoMA Reopened,” New Criterion 23, no. 4 (December 2004), 15-18

“Mumbling Monuments,” Commentary 111, no. 2 (February 2001), 50-54

“Patrick O’Brian’s Excellent Adventure,” Commentary 117, no. 1 (January 2004), 47-50

“The Realism of Thomas Eakins,” New Criterion (December 2001), 27-32

“Reassessing ‘68 in New York and Paris: Activism, Architecture, and the Academy,” New Criterion 16, no. 10 (June 1998), 85-87

“The Rise of the ‘Starchitect’,” New Criterion 26, no. 4 (December 2007),

“Architecture: Renzo Piano & the Morgan Library,” New Criterion 24, no. 10 (June 2006), 56-58

“Robert Hughes’ Amerika,” New Criterion 15, no. 10 (June 1997), 14-20

“Visions of Ground Zero,” Commentary 113, no. 4 (April 2002), 52-55

“What Louis Kahn Built,” Commentary 93, no. 3 (March 1992), 39-43

“When Presidents Speak,” Commentary 111, no. 5 (June 2001), 48-51.  Reprinted in Voices of Advocacy in American Democracy (University of Missouri, 2002)

 

Journalism

“Art and College History, Written in Stone,” Chronicle of Higher Education (April 28, 2006), B22-B24

“Art for Sale,” Commentary 131, no. 3 (March 2006), 32-38

“Canadian Architecture and the Search for National Identity,” 581 Architects, Yuki Fuchigami, ed. (Tokyo: Toto Shuppan, 1995), 235-242

“Dancing to the New Rules, A Rhapsody in Chrome” [Chrysler Building anniversary], New York Times (May 26, 2005), F8-F9

“Enjoy it, Julia, While it Lasts” [an essay on technology and changing ideals of beauty], New York Times, Thursday styles (May 19, 2005), 3

“Fixer Uppers: How Much is too Much?,” New York Times (April 6, 2002), Week in Review, section 4, 16

“Glass Walls to Bunkers: The New Look of U. S. Embassies,” New York Times (July 27, 2003), Week in Review, section 4, 6

“Hollywood Does 9/11, “ Commentary 122, no. 3 (October 2006),  40-45

“How to Avoid a 9/11 Memorial Disaster,” Wall Street Journal (August 12, 2003), D-8

“In a Changing Skyline, a Sudden, Glaring Void,” New York Times (September 16, 2001), Week in Review, 1

“It Depends On What Real Is,” New York Times (June 23, 2002) Week in Review, 3

“Mod Quad,” Chronicle of Higher Education XLIX (July 11, 2003), no. 44,  B7-B9

“Pedantry Spoils the World War II Memorial,” Weekly Standard 2, no. 22 (Feb. 17, 1997)  34-35

“Pleasure domes for Millionaires, and Other Lost Boys,” New York Times, style section (June 19, 2005) 10

“The ‘Look at Me’ Strut of a Swagger Building,” New York Times (Jan. 6, 2002) Week in Review, 1

“War Comes to Williams,” Commentary (November 2001) vol. 112, no. 4,  49-51

 

Reviews

Henry Adams, Eakins Revealed, New York Sun (June 2, 2005), 16

Anthony Bailey, Standing in the Sun: A Life of J. M. W. Turner, Washington Times (December 27, 1998), B8

William Bennett, America: The Last Best Hope, Commentary 122, no. 5 (December), 66-70

Hans-Joseph Böker, Die Backsteinarchitektur des Mittelalters in Deutschland, Society of Architectural Historians Journal VI, no. 4 (December 1992), 456-457

Ingrid Steffenson-Bruce, Marble Palaces, Temples of Art: Art Museums, Architecture and American Culture 1890-1930, Nineteenth Century 20, no. 1 (Spring 2000), 35-36

Brushes With History: Art Criticism from The Nation,” Commentary 114, no. 1 (July-August 2002), 70-76

Nils Büttner, Landscape Painting, New Criterion 26, no. 1 (September 2007), 67-70 

“Color in Architecture,” Notice on Dover Reprint, Nineteenth Century, vol. 16, no. 1 (1997)

T. J. Clark, The Sight of Death, New Criterion 25, no. 4 (December 2006), 4-8

Kathleen Curran, The Romanesque Revival: Religion, Politics and Transnational Exchange, Sacred Architecture, no. 9 (2004), p. 33.  Reprinted in Nineteenth Century vol. 25, no. 2 (2005), 43-44

Andrew Graham Dixon, Paper Museums, Washington Times (October 12, 1997), B8

Keith Eggener, American Architectural History: A Contemporary Reader, caa.reviews (February 6, 2008)

Exhibition Note.  “Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser” at the Cooper Hewitt, New Criterion 22, no. 10 (June 2004), 42-44

Andrew Ferguson, Land of Lincoln, Commentary 124, no. 2 (September 2007), 82-82

Kathleen Foster, Captain Watson’s Travels, Pa. Magazine of History and Biography (1999), 102-104

Isabelle Frank, The Theory of Decorative Art, Wall Street Journal (January 29, 2001), A24

Roger Friedland and Harold Zellman’s The Fellowship, Wall Street Journal (August 25, 2006), W-5

Margot and Carol Gayle, Cast Iron Architecture; Nineteenth Century (1999)

Cass Gilbert, four recent books; Nineteenth Century XXIII, no. 2 (2003),  44-45

Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Millennium Park, New York Times Book Review (August 6, 2006), 7

Nathan Glazer, From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture’s Encounter with the American City, Commentary 123, no. 5 (May 2007), 69-72

Michael Hall, ed., Gothic Architecture and Its meanings, 1550-1830, Times Literary Supplement, no. 5234 (July 25, 2003), 29

Brian Hanson, Architects and the “Building World” and Rebecca Daniels and Geoff Brandwood, eds., Ruskin and Architecture, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 65, no. 1 (March 2006), 140-144

Gertrude Himmelfarb, The Moral Imagination, Commentary 121, no. 5 (May 2006), 69-71

Paul Johnson, Art: A New History, New Criterion 22, no. 3 (November 2003), 67-70

William H. Jordy, “Symbolic Essence” and other writings, New Criterion 24, no. 3 (November 2005),  68-71

Michael Kimmelman, Portraits, Washington Times (August 16, 1998), B8-B7

Hilton Kramer, Twilight of the Intellectuals, Commentary (June 1999), 65-67

Brian Ladd, Politics of Order: German City Planning, Society of Architectural Historians Journal LII, no. 3 (September 1993), 344-345

Alan Lessoff and Christoph Mauch, Adolf Cluss, Architect, Nineteenth Century 26, no. 2 (Fall 2006), pp. 41-43

Harry Mallgrave, ed., Otto Wagner, AA Files 28 (1996), 107-109

The Letters of Lewis Mumford and Frank Lloyd Wright, New Criterion, no. 9 (May 2002), 72-76

Lynne Munson, Exhibitionism: Art in an Era of Intolerance, Wall Street Journal (December 13, 2000), p. A-24

Alexander Nehamas, Only a Promise of Happiness, Wall Street Journal (April 14/15, 2007), p. P-11

Frederick O’Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward, Nineteenth Century 17, no. 1 (1998), 38-40

James F. O’Gorman, H. H. Richardson,  Nineteenth Century 17, no. 1 (1998), 38-40, Accomplished in All Departments of Art: Hammatt Billings of Boston, 1818-1874; Nineteenth Century 19, no. 1 (1999), 61-62

Günther Passavant, Wolf Caspar von Klengel, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 62, no. 1 (March 2003), 138-140

Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker, The Architecture of Warren and Wetmore, New Criterion 24, no. 9 (May 2006), 73-75

Jed Perl, New Art City, Commentary 121, no. 1 (January 2006), 80-82

Bennard B. Perlman, ed., Revolutionaries of Realism: The Letters of Robert Henri and John Sloan, New Criterion 16, no. 1 (September 1997), 65-68

Klaus Jan Philipp, Um 1800: Architekturtheorie und Architekturkritik in Deutschland zwischen 1790 und 1810, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 59, no. 2 (June 2000), 266-268

Michael Quick, George Inness, A Catalogue Raisonne, New Criterion 26, no. 8 (April 2008), pp. 68-72

“Recent Books on American Architects,” Nineteenth Century 16, no. 1 (Spring 1996), 34-36

Daniel D. Reiff, Architecture in Fredonia, Nineteenth Century (1999)

Richard Rhodes, John James Audubon: The Making of an American, New Criterion 23, no. 5 (January 2005), 66-68

Philip Rieff, My Life Among the Deathworks, Commentary 121, no. 4 (April 2006), 76-78

“Rembrandt: Identity Found Through One-Sided Rivalry,” review of Simon Schama, Rembrandt’s Eyes, Washington Times (December 5)

Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1781-1841: The Drama of Architecture, Exhibition at the Chicago Art Institute, Society of Architectural Historians Journal 54, no. 1 (March 1994),  72-75

Mitchell Schwarzer, German Architectural Theory, Design Book Review (Fall 1997), 15-17

Vincent Scully, Modern Architecture and Others Essays, selected and edited by Neil Levine, Society of Architectural Historians Journal LXIII, no. 4 (December 2004),  567-569

Larry Shiner, The Invention of Art: A Cultural History, Washington Times (December 30, 2001)

Kathleen Solomonson, The Chicago Tribune Competition: Skyscraper Design and Cultural Change in the 1920s and Joseph Siry, The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan’s Architecture and the City, Art Bulletin LXXXVII, no. 3 (September 2005), 456-458

Art Spiegelman, In the Shadow of No Towers, Commentary 118, no. 5 (December 2004), 73-75

Catherine Voorsanger and John Howat, eds., Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861, Nineteenth Century 21, no. 2 (Fall 2001), 42-43

Peter Watson, Sotheby’s: The Inside Story, Washington Times ((March 22 1998), B-6.

Nicholas Fox Weber, The Clarks of Cooperstown, New York Sun (May 9, 2007)

Carter Wiseman, Louis I Kahn: Beyond Time and Style, Commentary 124, no. 1 (July-August, 2007), pp. 86-88

Richard Wollheim, Germs, Wall Street Journal (October 28, 2006), p. P-12