Featuring Dr. Michael Lewis, Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art at Williams College

Where: Meyerson Hall B3, School of Design Meyerson Hall B3, School of Design

Professor Lewis completed his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. He is the author of Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind (2001), The Gothic Revival (2002), American Art and Architecture (2006), and the prize-winning August Reichensperger: The Politics of the German Gothic Revival (1993), among other publications. His research interests include architectural theory, utopian and communal societies, and the nature of creativity. In 2008 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to support the completion of City of Refuge: the Other Utopia, a study of millennial town planning. Lewis is a Senior Fellow of the Collegium Institute.

Cosponsored by the Department of the History of Art and the Program for Historic Preservation at Penn

Sponsored by the Our Sunday Visitor Institute

For more information please contact Daniel Cheely at cheelyjm@sas.upenn.edu or visit collegiuminstitute.org