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Robert Mccarter, architect and University of Florida professor (Lecture)
Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, College of Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture & U
Steinberg Auditorium
St. Louis, MO, USA
Robert McCarter is a practicing architect, professor of architecture, and author. From 1991 to the present he has been Professor of Architecture, and from 1991 to 2001 he was Director of the School of Architecture, both at the University of Florida; from 1986 to 1991 he was Associate Professor, Assistant Dean (with Bernard Tschumi), and Assistant Chair (with Kenneth Frampton), at the Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University, New York. During his 15 years in academic administration at Columbia and Florida, McCarter taught a design studio every semester (30 total, with over 400 students). McCarter has been a licensed architect since 1982, and since 1991 is President of D-Mc2 Architecture, P. A., in Tioga, Florida. McCarter is the author of Louis I. Kahn (Phaidon Press, London, 2005); On and By Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer of Architectural Principles (Phaidon Press, London, 2005); Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Lives (Reaktion Books, London, 2006); William Morgan: Selected and Current Works (Images Press, Sydney, 2002); Frank Lloyd Wright (Phaidon Press, London, 1997); Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright (Phaidon Press, London, 1997); and Fallingwater: Frank Lloyd Wright (Phaidon Press, London, 1994). He is currently working on books on Alvar Aalto; Steven Holl; Toshiko Mori; Brad Cloepfil/Allied Works; the Alfonso Architects; a study of the relationship between Modern painting and Modern architecture from 1900 to today; and a general Primer on Architecture. He edited and contributed essays to Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer on Architectural Principles (Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1991) and Building: Machines - Pamphlet Architecture 12 (Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1987). Among his awards, McCarter received the Rotch Foundation Traveling Studio Award in 2003 (one of only ten awarded nationally), with which he took a graduate studio to Finland; in 1989 he received a Graham Foundation Grant in support of his work on Frank Lloyd Wright; and he was awarded first prize in the SOM Traveling Fellowship National Design Competition in 1983. 7 PM.
April 17, 2006
Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, College of Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture & U

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