Robert Campbell

Neither an academic nor a researcher, Campbell was nevertheless interested in architecture and urban design and how they relate to other areas of life and culture. He practiced as a consultant to cities and cultural institutions, e.g. Boston Symphony Orchestra, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, City of San Francisco, et al., and taught architectural design as visiting professor at several universities. He also wrote as architecture critic for the Boston Globe and professional journals, and authored book reviews on architecture, popular culture, and poetry for New York Times Book Review. His poems appeared in the Harvard Review and Atlantic Monthly, among others. Along with Peter Vanderwarker, Campbell wrote Cityscapes of Boston: An American City Through Time.

Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. 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 from 2005 to 2018.) Design Fellow National Endowment for the Arts, 1976. Senior Fellow, National Arts Journalism Program Columbia 2003.