Anthony Alofsin

Anthony Alofsin is an American architect and architectural historian, known primarily for his studies of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, of Modern architecture, and of architectural education. He is currently the Roland Roessner Centennial Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.

Alofsin received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1971, a Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1981, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1987.

The primary focus of Alofsin's research and publications has been Frank Lloyd Wright. Other areas of focus include the history of design education at Harvard and the architecture of Austria-Hungary in the years from 1867-1933. In addition to books and articles, he has organized several exhibitions addressing these topics.

Alofsin's "Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years, 1910-1922", was a winner in the monograph category in the American Institute of Architects Book Awards program. In 2006, Alofsin received the "Wright Spirit Award" the highest award given by the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy. His book, "When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Habsburg Empire and its Aftermath, 1867-1933", won the Vasari Award from the Dallas Museum of Art in 2007.

Alofsin has taught at the University of Texas at Austin for two decades. He founded and headed the Ph.D. program in architectural history in the UT School of Architecture.

Excerpt from a review of his latest book, When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Habsburg Empire and its Aftermath, 1867-1933: “…this book marks an undisputable contribution not only to the knowledge of the Central European architecture, but also to the ongoing remapping of modern architecture. Alofsin introduces a new reading of the architecture of the region and supports it with an extremely rich use of illustrations, including many large color photographs of breathtaking quality….Alofsin demonstrates here that modern architecture implies several and different means of expression, all of which are equally worth investigating. While certainly contributing to the continuing shifts of historiography of modern architecture, this book will also open pathways to the study of even more ‘adventurous’ territories that have yet to be considered by mainstream architectural history.”

"Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians", June 2008.

Books

* Alofsin, Anthony, editor, "Frank Lloyd Wright: An Index to the Taliesin Correspondence", Garland Publishing, New York 1988 [five volumes]

* Alofsin, Anthony, editor, "Frank Lloyd Wright: Europe and Beyond", University of California Press, Berkeley CA 1999, ISBN 0520211162

* Alofsin, Anthony, "Frank Lloyd Wright--The Lost Years, 1910-1922: A Study of Influence", University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1993, ISBN 0226013669

* Alofsin, Anthony, editor/co-author "Prairie skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower", Price Tower Arts Center, Bartlesville OK; Rizzoli, New York 2005, ISBN 0847827542

* Alofsin, Anthony, "The Struggle for Modernism: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning at Harvard", W. W. Norton, New York and London 2002, ISBN 0393730484

* Alofsin, Anthony, "When Buildings Speak: Architecture As Language in the Habsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, 1867-1933", University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 2006, ISBN 0226015068

External links

* [http://soa.utexas.edu/people/profile/alofsin University of Texas School of Architecture faculty profile]
* [http://www.alofsin.com Anthony Alofsin Architect]