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Michael Lewis on “Lessons from the Notre Dame Fire.” Lewis is the Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art History at Williams College. A critic of architecture, he is the author of numerous essays and reviews in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Commentary, New Criterion, Architectural Record, Chronicle of Higher Education, and other publications. He is the author of, among others, 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). His research interests include architectural theory, utopian and communal societies, and the nature of creativity.
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on September 13, 2019.
Michael Lewis on “Lessons from the Notre Dame Fire.” Lewis is the Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art History at Williams College. A critic of architecture, he is the author of numerous essays and reviews in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Commentary, New Criterion, Architectural Record, Chronicle of Higher Education, and other publications. He is the author of, among others, 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). His research interests include architectural theory, utopian and communal societies, and the nature of creativity.
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on September 13, 2019.
