Carroll William Westfall
University of Notre Dame, School of Architecture
Making History
Monday, October 5, 2009
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Alan K. and Leonarda F. Laing Memorial Lecture
Carroll William Westfall came to Notre Dame in 1998 as Frank Montana Professor and Chairman of the School of Architecture, serving as chairman until 2002. Earlier he taught at Amherst College, the University of Illinois in Chicago, and, since 1982, at the University of Virginia. His undergraduate training at the University of California was followed by a Masters degree at the University of Manchester and a PhD at Columbia University.
His initial work led to numerous articles and a book,
In This Most Perfect Paradise
(1974), a study of Early Renaissance Rome.
His more recent studies of the relationship between the history,
theory, and practice of architecture are found in his contribution to
the 1991 book Architectural Principles in the Age of Historicism
(Yale University Press) written with Robert Jan van Pelt. His special
interest has always been the history of the city with particular
attention to the reciprocity between the political life and the urban
and architectural elements that serve the needs of citizens.
His current focus is on tradition and classicism in architecture
and the American city and the architect’s capacity to nourish the
Christian faith.
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Lecture Committee: Stewart Hicks Erik Hemingway Julie Larsen John Senseney
