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Daniel Williamson

Architectural history professor

Education

  • Ph.D., history of art and archaeology, New York University
  • M.Arch., architectural history, University of Virginia
  • B.A., philosophy, Williams College

Credentials

  • Professor of art and architectural history, 2011–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Adjunct professor, 2011, Lutheran College Washington Semester (LCWS), Washington, DC
  • Visiting scholar, 2008–09, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India
  • Adjunct professor, 2007–08, City College, City University of New York
  • Graduate assistant, 2006–08, New York University
  • Associate director, 2002–03, Georgetown Learning Centers, Great Falls, VA

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • White-Levy Summer Travel Grant, 2006
  • Erwin Panofsky Fellowship, 2005–10
  • University of Virginia Architectural History Faculty Book Award for Academic Excellence, 2005 
  • University of Virginia School of Architecture Fellowship, 2003–05
  • Phi Beta Kappa, 2001

Organizations

  • College Art Association
  • Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy
  • National Trust for Historic Preservation
  • Society of Architectural Historians
  • Southeastern Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians

Publications and presentations

Publications

  • "Brutalism," SAH Archipedia (in peer review).
  • "Met Breuer New York, NY," SAH Archipedia (in peer review).
  • "Conflicted Views of India's Future: Le Corbusier, the Millowners, and Their Building" (in progress).

Presentations

  • "Recovering Sustainable Design Practices in Early Post-Independence India Housing," presented at Year of India Conference Kennesaw State University, March 2018.
  • "Le Corbusier, City Elites, and Civic Culture in Ahmedabad, India," presented at Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland, June 2017.
  • "Weaving Together East and West, Culture and Commerce: Wright's Calico Store Project, 1946," presented at Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Annual Conference, San Francisco, Nov. 2006.
  • "CEPT University: Indian Node in the Global Network of Modern Architecture," presented at Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians, Charlotte, Sept. 2013.
  • "International Brutalism and the Idealized Indian Village: Balkrishna Doshi's ATIRA Housing," presented at Savannah Symposium, Savannah, Ga., Jan. 2013.
  • "Pioneering Modern Architectural Education in 1960s Ahmedabad," presented at Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2010.
  • "Transferring and Transforming the Haveli to the Ahmedabad Suburbs: The Sarabhai Retreat, 1904-1960," presented at Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Pasadena, Calif., April 2009.
  • "Structural Translucency: The Glass Brick Facades of William Lescaze's Townhouses," presented at Mid-Atlantic Pop American Culture Association Conference, Philadelphia, Nov. 2007.
  • "The Contradictions of the Colonial Enterprise: Uplifting and Essentializing in Bombay's Crawford Markets," presented at University of Chicago South Asia Graduate Student Conference, Chicago, Feb. 2006.

Lectures

  • "The Millowners' 'Palace' of Le Corbusier: Industry, Identity and Independence in Ahmedabad, India," presented at Art History and Liberal Arts Lecture Series, SCAD-Atlanta, Oct. 2015.
  • "Negotiating the Local and Universal in Modern Architecture: Louis Kahn's Indian Institute of Management," presented at Art History and Liberal Arts Lecture Series, SCAD-Atlanta, Sept. 2012.
  • "Modern Architecture in India: The Nehru Era," presented at Tri-City India Association, Albany, N.Y., Sept. 2010.