Robert Campbell

Neither an academic nor a researcher. Interested in architecture and urban design and how they relate to other areas of life and culture. Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.  Practices as a consultant to cities and cultural institutions, e.g. Boston Symphony Orchestra, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, City of San Francisco, etc. Has taught architectural design as visiting professor at several universities. 

Writes as architecture critic for the Boston Globe and professional jourrnals.  Book reviews on architecture, popular culture and poetry for New York Times Book Review.  Poems have appeared in Harvard Review, Atlantic Monthly etc.  Author with Peter Vanderwarker of book Cityscapes of Boston: An American City Through Time.

MArch Harvard (Appleton traveling fellowship, Francis Kelley thesis prize).  MS Columbia.  AB in English Harvard (thesis on poetry of Dylan Thomas).  Phi Beta Kappa.  Pulitzer Prize 1996.  Artist in residence American Academy in Rome 1997.  Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences since 1993 (chair of monthly Friday Forum discussion lunches at AAAS since 2005.) Design Fellow National Endowment for the Arts, 1976.  Senior Fellow, National Arts Journalism Program Columbia 2003.