The Amazing Career of Nathaniel A. Owings (1903–1984)
Nicholas Adams is the Mary Conover Mellon professor in the Art Department at Vassar College where he has taught architectural history for the past 30 years. He has also taught at Lehigh University, Columbia University, and Harvard GSD. He is the author of books covering topics as broadly separated as Italian sixteenth-century military architecture, Gunnar Asplund’s Law Court addition in Gothenburg, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Adams was the curator of two recent exhibitions at Vassar College and the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library covering architectural books. He is currently writing a biography of the architect Gordon Bunshaft (1909–1990). Adams serves on the publication committee of the Italian architectural magazine Casabella, where a number of his essays have appeared.
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Nicholas Adams is the Mary Conover Mellon professor in the Art Department at Vassar College where he has taught architectural history for the past 30 years. He has also taught at Lehigh University, Columbia University, and Harvard GSD. He is the author of books covering topics as broadly separated as Italian sixteenth-century military architecture, Gunnar Asplund’s Law Court addition in Gothenburg, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Adams was the curator of two recent exhibitions at Vassar College and the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library covering architectural books. He is currently writing a biography of the architect Gordon Bunshaft (1909–1990). Adams serves on the publication committee of the Italian architectural magazine Casabella, where a number of his essays have appeared.