Overview

  • Robert Wojtowicz is Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Art History at Old Dominion University. He is the literary executor of the Estate of Lewis and Sophia Mumford and the author of Lewis Mumford and American Modernism: Eutopian Theories for Architecture and Urban Planning (1996); the editor of Sidewalk Critic: Lewis Mumford''s Writings on New York (1998) and Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s (2007); and the co-editor (with Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer) of Frank Lloyd Wright and Lewis Mumford: Thirty Years of Correspondence (2001).

    • Selected Publications

    Articles In Academic Journals

    Year Title
    2016 Lewis Mumford, Wright, and the Politics of Community.  Save Wright. 10-13.
    2013 C.A. Neff: The Education of a Beaux-Arts Architect.  Ninteenth Century. 10-19.
    2005 A Model House and a House’s Model: Reexamining Frank Lloyd Wright’s House on the Mesa Project.  Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 522-551.
    2001 City as Community: The Life and Vision of Lewis Mumford.  4-7.
    1987 A Hollar Counterproof.  Print Quarterly. 420.

    Books

    Year Title
    2007 Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s.  Berkeley: University of California Press.
    2001 Frank Lloyd Wright and Lewis Mumford: Thirty Years of Correspondence.  New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press.
    1998 Sidewalk Critic: Lewis Mumford's Writings on New York.  New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press.
    1996 Lewis Mumford and American Modernism: Eutopian Theories for Architecture and Urban Planning.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Conference Papers

    Year Title
    2013 What Can We Learn from Lewis Mumford Today?.  3-19.
    2003 The New Culture of Cities: A Response.  97-101.
    1991 The Critic As Propagandist: Lewis Mumford and the ‘Radburn Idea’.  167-187.

    Research Overview

  • history of American art and architecture, history of urban plannning, historic preservation

    • Grants

    Expertise Keywords

  • Art History : Architectural History / Urban Planning History / Historic Preservation

    • Education And Training

  • Ph.D. in History of Art, University of Pennsylvania 1990
  • M.A. in Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University 1984
  • B.A. in American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania 1983
  • M.A. in American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania 1983

    • Full Name

  • Robert Wojtowicz