About Robert Campbell:

A writer and architect, he is currently the Pulitzer-Prize winning architecture critic for the Boston Globe. Campbell has received many awards for his writing including a Design Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts 1976 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1996. He is a fellow of the AIA and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Books:

Civic builders.  Curtis w. Fentress, Robert Campbell, et al.  Wiley-Academy, 2002.  On Order.

Campbell, Robert. “The 1960s: Playing by the Rules.”  In Modern American houses: four decades of award-winning design in Architectural Record.  Abrams, 1996. Reference NA 7208.M57 1996.

Citiscapes of Boston: an American city through time.  Houghton Mifflin, 1992. Available through the Library’s Inter-Library Loan service.

Establishing a threshold; twelve architectural practices in Boston. (Forward by Robert Campbell). Harvard Un. Grad School of Design, 1985.  NA735.B7 E88 1985.

Articles:  (Selected from 1999-2003)

“Instead of devising a 21st-century urbanism, the latest WTC proposals rehash old notions o the future.” Robert Campbell. Architectural record 2003 Feb., v.191, n.2, p.75-76.

“What becomes a legend most? Restoring Wright's greatest work raises some sticky questions. Robert Campbell.  Architectural record 2003 Apr., v.191, n.4, p.93--[94,96].

“Advice to architects: keep Howard Roark and his grand schemes away from Ground Zero.” Robert Campbell.  Architectural record 2002 Aug., v.190, n.8, p.59-[60].

“At the new Allston Library, Machado and Silvetti pleases the public with a casual, stylish building that's more a community center than a place for  books.”  Architectural record 2002 Jan., v.190, n.1, p.[86]-[91].

 “The big dig: what's up under Boston?”  Robert Campbell.  Architectural record 2002 Mar., v.190, n.3, p.[84]-86,88.

“Front row seats: photographs by Robert Campbell.”  Cervin Robinson.  Places 2002 Spring, v.14, n.3, p.66-71.

Notes:  Boston Globe architecture critic's series of photographs capturing the "fronts" of dwellings - porches,streets, farmyards, decks.  (source: Avery  online).

“Is there an American architecture?”  Robert Campbell.   Architectural record 1999 Apr., v.187, n.4, p.[76]-77,[79,81],184.

Notes:  Campbell "questions the traditionally accepted notions of time and place in an   increasingly multicultural world." Focuses on Madewood Plantation on Bayou Lafourche, La. (architect: Henry Howard, ca.1846). (Source: Avery Online).

Web Sites:

The Boston Globe:    www.boston.com/globe/     Enter Robert Campbell’s name in the search box to access his recent columns on architecture.