Dell Upton

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Dell Upton
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Alma mater Colgate University
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Dell Thayer Upton (born Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, 1949) [1] is an architectural historian. He is emeritus professor at the department of art history at University of California, Los Angeles, [2] and Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. He had taught previously at the University of Virginia.

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Upton studied history and English as a Phi Beta Kappa undergraduate at Colgate University from 1965 to 1970. [3] [4] He earned an M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1980) in American Civilization at Brown University. [5] [6] His dissertation concerned seventeenth- and eighteenth-century domestic architecture in Tidewater Virginia, written under the supervision of James Deetz. [7]

He taught for many years at UC Berkeley, before moving in 2002 to the University of Virginia, where he was David A. Harrison Professor of Anthropology and Architecture, with appointments in the School of Architecture and the department of anthropology. [8] [9] He resumed teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles as Professor of Architectural History and chair of the Department of Art History.

Upton authored the 1998 textbook Architecture in the United States for the Oxford University Press' Oxford Art History series and American Architecture, A Thematic History with Oxford in 2019. Upton has written extensively on vernacular landscapes of the American built environment. His work on Colonial and Antebellum America include Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic (Yale University Press, 2008), Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia (MIT Press, 1986), Madaline: Love and Survival in Antebellum New Orleans (University of Georgia Press, 1996), and America’s Architectural Roots: Ethnic Groups That Built America (Preservation Press, 1986). As a founding member of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Upton has published on materialist history and theory as separate from canonical architectural histories in works such as Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture, with John Michael Vlach (University of Georgia Press, 1986) and "Architecture History or Landscape History?" in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (August 1991). He wrote the chief essay for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition "Art and the Empire City: New York 1825–1861 in 2000. [10] [11] He examined histories of civic memorials in What Can and Can't Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South (Yale University Press, 2015).

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  1. ↑ Middle name and birth year are from the Copyright Catalog of the United States Copyright Office, entry for Early vernacular architecture in southeastern Virginia (1981). http://cocatalog.loc.gov/
  2. ↑ "Faculty Profiles Emeritus". UCLA Art History. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Architectural History and the CED Idea, 50th Anniversary Celebration". UC Berkeley Events. 22 October 2009. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  4. ↑ "Faculty Page". UC Berkeley, CED. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  5. ↑ "Faculty Page". UC Berkeley, CED. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  6. ↑ "Architectural History and the CED Idea, 50th Anniversary Celebration". UC Berkeley Events. 22 October 2009. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  7. ↑ Dell Thayer Upton, “Early Vernacular Architecture in Southeastern Virginia.” Ph.D. dissertation. Brown University Committee on American Civilization, 1979. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1980 no. 8111189.
  8. ↑ "U.Va. Professor Dell Upton to Give Public Talk on New Civil Rights Monuments". UVA Today. University of Virginia. 13 October 2006. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
  9. ↑ "Architectural History and the CED Idea, 50th Anniversary Celebration". UC Berkeley Events. 22 October 2009. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  10. ↑ "UCLA Faculty Bio" . Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  11. ↑ Art and the Empire City: New York 1825–1861, a 2000 exhibition catalog from the Metropolitan Museum of Art libraries, online as PDF
  12. 1 2 Marquis Who's Who in American Art
  13. ↑ "UCLA Faculty Bio" . Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  14. ↑ "John Hope Franklin Prize | ASA". www.theasa.net. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  15. ↑ "Hitchcock Book Award Recipients". Default. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  16. ↑ "Dell Upton". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  17. ↑ "Kostof Book Award Recipients". Default. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  18. ↑ "Dell Upton named fellow, Society of Architectural Historians". UCLA. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  19. ↑ Rome, American Academy in (12 March 2019). "Dell Upton". American Academy in Rome. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  20. ↑ "Center 41 Research Reports: Dell Upton". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved July 30, 2022.

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