C. Edson Armi

C. Edson Armi
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1999)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineArt history
Sub-disciplineHistory of architecture
Institutions

C. Edson Armi is an American historian of architecture. Armi is professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[1]

Biography

Armi received his B.A. from Columbia College in 1967 and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1973.[2] His research spans Romanesque architecture and sculpture,[3] Gothic art, and 20th century American car designs.[4] He began his career at the University of Chicago as an assistant professor in 1974 before moving to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an associate professor in 1977.[2] In 1992, Armi joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

In 1999, Armi received a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on a book on romanesque building construction that was published in 2004.[5]

References

  1. ^ "C. Edson Armi | History of Art and Architecture - UC Santa Barbara". www.arthistory.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
  2. ^ a b "Armi, C. Edson | Dictionary of Art Historians". arthistorians.info. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
  3. ^ Ambrose, Kirk (January 2020). "C. Edson Armi, Cluny and the Origins of Burgundian Romanesque Sculpture in Burgundy: The Architecture, Sculpture and Narrative of the "Avenas" Master . (Bibliotheca Archaeologica 57.) Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2019. Pp. 124; many color and 5 black-and-white figures. $108. ISBN: 978-88-1748-3". Speculum. 95 (1): 191–192. doi:10.1086/706281. ISSN 0038-7134.
  4. ^ Hyde, Charles K. (1990). "The Art of American Car Design: The Profession and Personalities—"Not Simple like Simon" by C. Edson Armi, and: Power behind the Wheel: Creativity and the Evolution of the Automobile by Walter J. Boyne (review)". Technology and Culture. 31 (2): 314–315. ISSN 1097-3729.
  5. ^ "C. Edson Armi". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... Retrieved 2023-09-30.