| Robert McCarter is a practicing architect,
author, and Professor of Architecture, and he was Director
of the School of Architecture from 1991-2001. He has been
a licensed architect since 1982, and holds a NCARB Certificate.
His own professional firm, D-Mc2 Architecture, P.A., has
been engaged to design and oversee construction of diverse
project types, including adult health day care centers,
corporate offices, horse farm facilities, religious structures,
and numerous residential designs, the latter often involving
the developer/homebuilder industry.
He is the author of a number of books, including Frank
Lloyd Wright (Phaidon, 1997); William Morgan: Selected
and Current Work (Images Publications, 2002); The Architecture
of Donald Singer, 1964-1999 (Bienes Center for the Literary
Arts, 1999); Unity Temple (Phaidon, 1997); Fallingwater
(Phaidon, 1994); and Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer on
Architectural Principles (Princeton Architectural Press,
1991). Currently at press is his comprehensive monograph,
Louis I. Kahn, to be published by Phaidon Press in early
2003. He edited Building: Machines, Pamphlet Architecture
12 (Princeton Architectural Press, 1987) and Abstract
1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 (Columbia University). He has
also written extensively for international professional
journals, including GA Houses, Journal of the Society
of Architectural Historians, Progressive Architecture,
Architectural Record, Bauforum, and Theology Today,
and he has contributed to numerous scholarly publications,
including The Oxford Companion to US History, Encyclopedia
of 20th Century Architecture, 50 Key Environmental Thinkers,
and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.
At the University of Florida, in addition to his duties
as School Director, his most important involvement in
the school has been through teaching a design studio
every semester. He has taught and coordinated the first
year of the Advanced Graduate Design Studios since 1991.
He has been involved in speaker selection for the Sarasota
Design Conference in 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002, has
served on numerous Florida AIA Design Juries, has lectured
extensively in the US, and has served on NAAB Accreditation
Visiting Teams. In May 2001, he gave the keynote lecture,
on Frank Lloyd Wright, in the new series on the Masters
of Modern Architecture sponsored by the Alvar Aalto
Academy and the Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki,
Finland. He was keynote speaker for the 2001 Annual
National Meeting of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building
Conservancy, and keynote speaker and organizer for the
Sarasota School of Architecture Reunion Conference,
"An American Legacy," held in Sarasota, Florida
in November 2001. He organized and taught the continuing
education course, "The Architecture of Carlo Scarpa,"
in the School's Vicenza Institute of Architecture, in
the fall 1998 and 2000; providing two years of CEU credit
towards professional re-licensure in the State of Florida
for architecture and interior design.
Prior to coming to the University of Florida, he was
Assistant Dean and Associate Professor at the Graduate
School of Architecture at Columbia University in New
York, from 1986-1991. From 1982-1991, he also had his
own practice, Robert McCarter Architect, in New York
City. He has also taught at the School of Design, North
Carolina State University, Raleigh. He has also been
appointed Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in
Rome on three occasions. He received the SOM National
Design Fellowship in 1983, with which he lived in Rome
for a year. He received a Graham Foundation Grant in
1989 for his work on Frank Lloyd Wright. He received
his Bachelor in Environmental Design in Architecture
from North Carolina State University (1977), and his
Master of Architecture from Columbia University (1985).
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