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Joseph M. Siry is a leading American architectural historian and professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Wesleyan University. [1] Siry's publications have focused particularly on the architecture of Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School.

Siry received his education at Princeton University (B.A.), the University of Pennsylvania ( M.Arch.), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.).

Siry's book, The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City received the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award of the Society of Architectural Historians in 2003. He is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Books

  • Siry, Joseph M., Carson Pirie Scott: Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Department Store, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 1988, ISBN  0-226-76136-3
  • Siry, Joseph M., The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 2002, ISBN  0-226-76133-9
  • Siry, Joseph M., Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion, Cambridge University Press, London and New York 1998, ISBN  0-521-62991-8
  • Siry, Joseph M., "Beth Sholom Synagogue: Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture", University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 2012, ISBN  0-226-76140-1

References

  1. ^ Ciokajlo, Mickey (October 17, 2000). "OFF-THE-WALL EFFORT SAVING MURALS CONSERVATORS ARE REMOVING, RESTORING 10 HISTORIC PAINTINGS". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on November 6, 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2011.