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Geoffrey Taylor

Dean, School of Building Arts

Education

  • D.Des., architecture, Harvard University
  • M.Des., history and theory of architecture, Harvard University
  • M.Arch., architecture, Savannah College of Art and Design

Credentials

  • Dean, School of Building Arts, 2018–present
    Dean, School of Liberal Arts, 2017–2018
    Chair of art history, 2008–2017, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
    • Administratively lead 32 department faculty and full-time staff and research assistants
    • Oversee curriculum development and art history course offerings at five international locations, including Atlanta, Hong Kong, Lacoste, and eLearning
    • Established undergraduate and graduate program goals and outcomes and conducted quarterly and annual art history program assessment to assess student performance and curriculum successes
    • Created the Live/Art/History lecture series to share contributions by a diverse range of scholars, curators, conservators, artists, writers, cognitive scientists, information design specialists, and others
    • Authored six advanced seminars in areas of specialization utilizing collaborative research tools and the digital distribution of course material, imagery, and research materials
  • Consulting project art historian, June–Sept. 2008, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, The National Gallery of Art, Washington
    • The Early History of the Accademia di San Luca: Documents from the Archivio di Stato di Roma
    • Coordinator of the staff and group of scholars producing a searchable web-based digital archive for the documents of the Accademia di San Luca, Rome
  • Research scholar, Sept. 2004–Dec. 2007, Department of Drawing and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
    • Focused on the rich holdings and brought materials to light for scholarly appraisal, critical evaluation, education, and exhibition
    • Catalogued the architecture, perspective, and scientific treatises from the permanent collection including more than 1,000 objects
    • Interpreted the collection and critically evaluated the materials with visiting scholars and curatorial staff
    • Conducted provenance research and developed catalog records using the collections management database
  • Chester Dale Fellow, Sept. 2003–Aug. 2004, Department of Drawing and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
    • Evaluated holdings in the department's collection of Renaissance architectural drawings to develop a methodology considering drawing habits, workshop practices, and the craft of construction
    • Analyzed Italian Renaissance architectural drawings to assess subject, authorship, drawing techniques, and workshop practices leading to the creation of original TMS entries, following the descriptive guidelines established by the Getty Research Institute Architectural Drawing Advisory Group (ADAG)
    • Analyzed drawing techniques, materials, and artifact history with technical investigation tools
    • Developed and implemented an original method to record digital images of paper watermarks at full-scale, which lead to the creation of a watermark database for reference by curatorial staff
    • Presented research findings to museum colloquia, university symposia, and international conferences
  • Research associate, June 1998–Dec. 2005, Vatican Topography Project, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
    • Led the project in conducting a series of case studies to investigate the transformation of the landscape and buildings within the Vatican territory during the past 20 centuries of occupation. Using the resulting analysis of archaeological evidence, architectural drawings, paintings, texts and other visual descriptions, developed both comprehensive and detailed three-dimensional digital models
    • Prioritized research initiatives and implemented work plans to meet long-term and short-term objectives
    • Managed daily operation and supervised research staff, including students and consulting scholars
    • Structured the project's digital databases, including three-dimensional CAD and GIS models, source imagery, analytic representations, and historical documents
    • Designed on-line interfaces for access to digital imagery, model archives, and research case studies
    • Created and implemented analytical representation techniques and standard display conventions
    • Managed the exchange of project data with local student research initiatives and global research projects

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Affiliated Fellow, American Academy in Rome, Spring 2015, Spring 2017
  • Eleanor M. Garvey Visiting Fellow in Printing and Graphic Arts, Houghton Library, Harvard University, 2008–09
  • Arthur Ross Advanced Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America, Jan.–June 2008
  • Curatorial Fellow, The Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 2005–06
  • Getty Reference Work Grant [Vatican Topography Project], The Getty Foundation, 2001–05
  • Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, 1998–99
  • Community Fellow, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, June–Sept. 1998

Organizations

  • Director, Harvard Alumni Association, Savannah and Southeast Georgia chapter
  • Member, Georgia Public Broadcasting Advisory Board
  • College Art Association
  • Southeastern College Art Conference
  • Renaissance Society of America
  • European Architectural History Network
  • Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)
  • Society of Architectural Historians

Publications and presentations

  • "Dominique Barrière: Insignium Romae templorum prospectus exteriors interioresque," in European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, edited by T. Barton Thurber (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2008), catalog no. 92.
  • "W. Gedney Beatty, collector" Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Sale catalog, Christie's, New York, December 3, 2007.
  • "Re-visualizing Bramante's Lost Tegurio at St. Peter's, Rome," Practices/ CSPA, Center for the Study of the Practice of Architecture, 7/8, June 2006.
  • "Turns on the Page: Illustrating Spiral Columns in European Books from the Renaissance to the Baroque," Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 2006.
  • "The Idea and Invention of the Villa," [with contributions by Vanessa Bezemer Sellers] Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.