Nov 11 Lecture on Sprawl: A Compact History

Save the Date!

On Friday, November 11 from 2-4-pm, UAP will be hosting Robert Bruegmann, who is a Distinguished Professor of Architecture, Art History and Urban Planning at the University of Illinois Chicago. He will guest lecture based on his well-known book Sprawl: A Compact History at 2150 Torgensen.

About Professor Bruegmann 

Robert Bruegmann is an historian of architecture, landscape and the built environment.  He received his BA from Principia College in 1970 and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976 with a dissertation on late 18th and early 19th century European hospitals and other institutions. In 1977 he became assistant professor in the Art History Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he is currently Professor with appointments in the School of Architecture and the Program in Urban Planning and Policy. He has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia College of the Arts, MIT and Columbia University. He has also worked for the Historic American Buildings Survey and Historic American Engineering Record of the National Park Service.

His fields of research and teaching are architectural, urban, landscape, and planning history and historic preservation. He has received scholarships and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Graham Foundation, the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University and the Institute for the Humanities and the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago.