David Van Zanten

David Van Zanten is professor emeritus at Northwestern University, working on design methods and the architect’s social sense of him- or herself. He began his training at the Princeton University School of Architecture in 1961 working particularly with Michael Graves, but graduated in Art History and went on to a Ph.D. in that subject at Harvard — while serving as one of the editors of the Graduate School of Design’s student journal, Connection. He contributed to the exhibition “The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts” (MoMA, 1975 – catalogue edited by Arthur Drexler, 1977). His Paris work he expended in his Designing Paris (MIT Press, 1987 – SAH Hitchcock Prize 1988), Building Paris (Cambridge, 1994). Parallel Chicago is summarized in his Sullivan’s City (W. W. Norton, 2000) and several books about Walter Burley Griffin and his brilliant architect-wife, Marion Mahony.