Robert Bruegmann

Robert Bruegmann is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, best known for his research on the Chicago architecture firm Holabird & Root and as a commentator on urban sprawl.

His research on Holabird & Root (earlier known as Holabird & Roche) in the 1980s improved public awareness of that firm and its contributions to the commercial architecture of Chicago and other cities. A comprehensive three-volume catalog of the firm's commissions from 1910-1940 was followed by a book describing the firm's first four decades and influence on Chicago.

In recent years he has been examining the issue of urban sprawl. His 2005 book, "Sprawl: A Compact History," takes a contrarian view, offering statistical and historical arguments to disprove the most frequently offered criticisms of dispersed development patterns as unhealthy and undesirable.

Other works by Bruegmann recount the architectural history of Benicia, California, and of the United States Air Force Academy.

Partial bibliography

*"Benicia: Portrait of an Early California Town: An Architectural History 1846 to the Present." San Francisco: 101 Productions, 1980.
*"A Guide to 150 Years of Chicago Architecture" (With Paul Florian and Cynthia Weese). Chicago Review Press, 1985
*"Holabird & Roche/Holabird & Root, Catalog of Work 1910-1940." Three volumes, New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1991.
*"Modernism at Mid-Century: The Architecture of the United States Air Force Academy" (editor). University of Chicago Press, 1994.
*"Ralph Johnson of Perkins & Will: Buildings and Projects" (with Ralph Johnson). New York: Rizzoli, 1995
*"The Architects and the City: Holabird and Roche of Chicago 1880-1918." University of Chicago Press, 1997
*"Sprawl: A Compact History." University of Chicago Press, 2005

External links

* [http://www.robertbruegmann.com/index.html Personal website]
* [http://www.uic.edu/depts/arch/ah/faculty.htm UIC departmental website]