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David Van Zanten David Van Zanten (PhD Harvard), Professor of Art History specializing in American and European architecture and urbanism after 1800. His Designing Paris: The Architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc, and Vaudoyer won the 1988 Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. He extended this work in Building Paris: Architectural Institutions and the Transformation of the French Capital, 1830-1870, published by Cambridge University Press in 1994. He has also contributed to the exhibition catalogue The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and edited The Beaux Arts Tradition in French Architecture for which he received the Prix Bernier from the Académie des Beaux-Art. Most recently he published Sullivan's City: The Meaning of Ornament for Louis Sullivan (2000). In Fall 2000 he organized at Northestern, with the support of FIG, a Franco-American symposium on "Paris-Chicago circa 1950-1900." This symposium was part of an ongoing collaborative project involving Karen Bowie (Ecole d’architecture Paris-Val de Marne) and François Loyer (CNRS). Van Zanten was named in 1995 Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des lettres. He is the past recipient of fellowships from the NEH, Graham Foundation, DAAD among others and received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2001-2002) to study the development of Manchester, London, Hamburg, Paris and Chicago c. 1850.
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