Gwendolyn Wright

Gwendolyn Wright
Wright in 2014
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley, MArch and PhD
New York University, BA
AwardsFellowship in the Humanities from the Ford Foundation, 1979-80

Nina Sutton Weeks Fellowship from the Stanford Humanities Center, 1982-83
Elected a fellow in the Society of American Historians in 1985
Fellowship from the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, 1991
Getty Fellowship from the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1992-93
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2004-5
Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation Fellowship, 2005-6

Graham Foundation Fellowship, 2006
Scientific career
FieldsArchitectural History
Urban History
Art History
InstitutionsColumbia University

Gwendolyn Wright is an architectural historian and author. She was one of the hosts of the PBS television series History Detectives. She is a professor of architecture at Columbia University, also holding appointments in both its departments of history and art history.[1] Dr. Wright's specialties are US architectural history and urban history from after the Civil War to the present. She also writes about the exchange across national boundaries of architectural styles, influences, and techniques, particularly examining the colonial and neo-colonial attributes of both modernism and historic preservation.[2]

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