Anthony Alofsin

Anthony Alofsin
Born (1949-06-22) June 22, 1949 (age 75)
Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation
  • Architect
  • artist
  • art historian
  • writer
  • professor
Education

Anthony Alofsin (born June 22, 1949 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American architect, artist, art historian, writer, and professor.[1] Educated at Memphis Academy of Art and Phillips Academy, Andover, he received from Harvard College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, respectively, a Bachelor of Arts (1971) and Master of Architecture (1981). From Columbia University, he obtained a Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology (1987).

Alofsin has written books on modern architecture and published numerous essays on architecture, art, and culture that have appeared in a variety of journals and reviews including The Times Literary Supplement, the Burlington Magazine, the New Criterion, and American Art. He was named Roland Gommel Roessner Centennial Professor Emeritus in Architecture in 2020 in recognition of his scholarship and teaching over thirty-three years at the University of Texas at Austin where he founded and directed the Ph.D. program in architectural history.[2]

In 2017 he began donating material to establish the Anthony Alofsin Archive at the University of Texas in Austin. The vast collection contains research materials, his teaching collection, and professional papers.[3]

  1. ^ "Who's Who in America 2012". Marquis Biographies on Line (66th ed.). 2011.
  2. ^ "Anthony Alofsin". soa.utexas.edu. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
  3. ^ "Architect Anthony Alofsin Donates His Archives to University of Texas Libraries". Architect Magazine. April 11, 2017. Retrieved September 4, 2017.