Department of the History of Art and Architecture
Frick Fine Arts Building
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh PA 15260.7610 USA
Tel. 412.648.2419
Fax 412.648.2792
email ftoker@pitt.edu
Other honors and awards:
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| 1993, 1983, 1982 | University of Pittsburgh, College of General Studies Teaching Award |
| 1987 | Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation: Award of Merit for Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait |
| 1984 | University of Pittsburgh: Nomination for Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award |
| 1994 | Rockefeller Foundation: Bellagio Study Center Fellowship |
| 1993 | McCune Foundation: research grant |
| 1992 | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy: publishing grant |
| 1992-94 | National Endowment for the Humanities: Interpretive Research Grant |
| 1989 | University of Pittsburgh: Research Development Grant |
| 1985-86 | Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ: Membership |
| 1985 | National Endowment for the Humanities: Senior Fellowship |
| 1979 | National Endowment for the Humanities: General Research Grant |
| 1979 | Guggenheim Foundation: Fellowship |
| 1972-74 | Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti), Florence: Fellowship |
| 1969-73 | Committee for the Rescue of Italian Art: Fellowship |
| 1967-68 | Canada Council: Fellowship |
| 1965 | Kress Foundation: Fellowship |
Additional published information:
| 1996 | Who's Who in America 50th edition |
| 1995 | Who's Who in American Art 21st edition |
| 1994 | Dictionary of International Biography 23d edition |
| 1989 | Brendan Gill, "The Sky Line: The Malady of Gigantism", The New Yorker, January:73-77 (includes review of Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait) |
| 1987 | Bryant Gumble, NBC Today, 18 May |
| 1985 | Contemporary Authors, rev. ser. vol. 15:429-30 |
| 1982 | Directory of American Scholars I:771-72 |
| 1980 | Henry Tanner, "Cathedral Design Credited to Sculptor," New York Times, 7 May |
| 1977 | Ada Louise Huxtable, "The Current Age of Rediscovery," New York Times, 27 November |
Professional papers to universities and learned societies in North America, Europe, and Asia
| 1965 | Mid-West College Art Association, Lexington KY (Notre-Dame de Montreal) |
| 1971 | Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence (Excavations at Florence Cathedral) |
| 1972 | Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies, Florence ("Un Battistero sotto il Battistero di Firenze") |
| 1973 | Harvard University Center, Florence ("Il disegno di architettura nell'epoca gotica") |
| 1974 | Université di Roma, Istituto di Storia dell'Arte (Medieval archaeology) Harvard University Center, Florence ("Il proggetto arnolfiano per S. maria del Fiore") |
| 1975 | Carnegie-Mellon University (Gothic architectural drawings) |
| 1977 | Yale University (Ancient synagogues) |
| 1979 | Carleton University (Excavations in medieval Florence) Queen's University (A philosophy of architectural restoration) |
| Concordia University (Excavations in medieval Florence) Cornell University (Gothic architectural drawings) | |
| 1980 | University of London, Department of Art History (Arnolfo's project for Florence cathedral) |
| Courtauld Institute, London (Gothic architectural drawings) | |
| British-Italian Society, London (Early Christian Florence) Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence ("Alla ricerca di Arnolfo architetto: S. Croce e S. Maria del Fiore") | |
| 1981 | Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal ("Notre-Dame de Montreal: mirroir d'une epoque") |
| M.I.T. (Urban design in medieval Siena) | |
| 1982 | University of Pittsburgh: Phi Beta Kappa lecture (Evidence for a reconstruction of the original project for Florence cathedral) |
| Oberlin College (Urban design in medieval Siena) | |
| The Pennsylvania State University (Arnolfo's project for Florence cathedral) | |
| National Gallery, Washington, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts: Symposium on Gothic Architectural Drawings ("The 'Working' Drawing of a Gothic Architect in 1340") | |
| 1983 | University of California at Berkeley (Social structure of medieval palaces) |
| Stanford University (New excavations at Florence cathedral) | |
| Archaeological Institute of America lectures given at the University of Cincinnati, | |
| The Ohio State University, Wittenberg College, and Miami University of Ohio (Urban analysis of medieval Siena, excavations at Florence cathedral) | |
| Duke University (Arnolfo at S. Croce in Florence) | |
| 1985 | Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (Excavations at S. Maria del Fiore) |
| 1986 | Joint Colloquium: Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study ("The Idea of Pittsburgh") Université de Montréal ("Pittsburgh: Une renaissance et demie") |
| Université Laval, Quebec ("Pittsburgh: Une renaissance et demie") | |
| Columbia University, Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture (Origins of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater) | |
| 1987 | Conference on urban psychology, C.G.Jung Educational Center of Pittsburgh ("Has Pittsburgh an urban soul?") |
| 1988 | Getty Information Program (Symposium on Art Historical Method, Chicago) |
| 1989 | Universita di Firenze, Dipartimento di Storia Medievale (Historical documentation from the excavations below S. Maria del Fiore) |
| 1990 | The Frick Collection, New York (H.C. Frick as builder) |
| University of Pittsburgh: Fine Arts Faculty Lecture (Discoveries on H.C. Frick as patron of architecture) | |
| Department of the History of Architecture, University of Rome: "L'antica cattedrale di S. Reparata: un edificio sconosciuto nella Firenze paleocristiana"; | |
| "Risultati degli scavi a S. Maria del Fiore"; "La figura dell'architetto e il cantiere nel tardo medioevo"; "Il Battistero di S. Giovanni a Firenze" | |
| 1992 | School of Architecture, Anna University, Madras, India: "A Tendency to Eclecticism: the Early Christian and Gothic Cathedrals of Florence, Italy" |
| School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China: "Florence Cathedral in the Light of Excavations" | |
| School of Architecture, University of Tokyo: "Florence Cathedral in the Light of Excavations" | |
| 1994 | Fondazione Montanelli, Fucecchio (Florence): "I risultati degli scavi nel Duomo di Firenze: una nuova pagina per la storia della Toscana" |
Papers delivered at national conferences
| 1975 | College Art Association, Washington ("A Baptistery below the Baptistery of Florence") |
| 1976 | American Historical Association, Washington (Historical import of medieval archaeology) |
| College Art Association, Chicago (Gothic architectural drawings) | |
| North-East Museums Conference, Pittsburgh (Origins of Pittsburgh) | |
| 1983 | Society of Architectural Historians, Phoenix (Political implications of medieval urban planning) |
| Medieval/Renaissance Studies Conference, SUNY, Binghamton NY ("Early | |
| Medieval Florence between History and Archaeology") | |
| 1985 | Local chairman, Society of Architectural Historians, Pittsburgh, and keynote speaker ("Pittsburgh, or, Building Hell with the Lid Off") |
| 1987 | Society of Architectural Historians, San Francisco (Session chair: "The City and its Monuments") |
| 1988 | College Art Association, Houston ("Arnolfo di Cambio: A Medieval Original") |
| 1993 | Chairman of the Annual Meeting, Society of Architectural Historians, Charleston |
| 1994 | Presidential Address: "On his own [architectural] ignorance, and that of others," |
| Annual Meeting, Society of Architectural Historians, Philadelphia |
Papers delivered at international conferences
| 1975 | IX International Conference of Christian Archaeology, Vatican City (Basilica of S. Reparata in Florence) |
| 1980 | International Conference, "Roma Anno 1300," Rome ("Arnolfo di Cambio a S. Maria del Fiore in Firenze") |
| 1988 | AIA/RIBA International Conference, "Remaking Cities," Pittsburgh (Urban design of Pittsburgh) |
| 1989 | XXVII International Congress of Art Historians, Strasbourg (Role of Gothic architectural drawings in Italy) |
| 1990 | International Conference on the 700th Anniversary of the Founding of the Cathedral of Orvieto ("Fra patrono e cantiere: gli architetti delle cattedrali gotiche") |
Publications--Books:
| 1970 | The Church of Notre-Dame in Montreal: An Architectural History Montreal and London, McGill-Queen's University Press, 184 pp.; L'Eglise Notre-Dame de Montreal: son architecture, son passe, 1981 (Montreal, Hurtubise HMH, 302 pp.); second English edition revised, 1991 (McGill-Queen's University Press). |
| 1974 | S. Reparata: L'Antica Cattedrale Fiorentin Florence, Bonechi Editore, 111 pp. (with G. Morozzi, J. Herrmann) |
| 1986 | Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait. University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press (2d ed. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995), 352 pp.; |
Publications--Articles, chapters:
| 1967 | A note on the urban history of Florence, in Giuseppe Zocchi's Views of Florence (James S.Ackerman, ed.) New York, Walker:10-11 |
| 1968 | "Slidetapes for the Art Museum," Museum News 47:50-55. |
| 1970 | "James O'Donnell: An Irish Georgian in America," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 29:132-143. |
| 1971 | "La Chiesa di S. Reparata fu costruita dai Bizantini?," La Nazione, Florence, 30 April 1971 |
| 1972 | "Gli scavi sotto il Duomo di Firenze," Notiziario di Archeologia Medievale 2:2-4 |
| 1973 | "An Umbrian Abbey: San Paolo di Valdiponte," Papers of the British School at Rome 40:146-195 (with I. Adams, A. Luttrell) |
| 1975 | "Excavations below the Cathedral of Florence, 1965-1974," Gesta 14/2:17-36 |
| "Scavi del Complesso Altomedievale di S. Reparata sotto il Duomo di Firenze, Archeologia Medievale 2:161-190 | |
| 1976 | "A Baptistery below the Baptistery of Florence," Art Bulletin 58:157-167 |
| 1977 | "Why Richardson?" in H.H. Richardson: The Allegheny County Courthouse & Jail. Pittsburgh: County of Allegheny:17-21 |
| "Richardson en concours:The Pittsburgh Courthouse," Carnegie Magazine 51/9:13 -29 | |
| 1978 | "Florence Cathedral: The Design Stage," Art Bulletin 60:214-230 |
| 1979 | "An Early Christian Church below the Cathedral of Florence," Atti IX Congresso Internazionale di Archeologia Cristiana. Vatican City, II:929-933 |
| "In the Grand Manner: The P&LE Station in Pittsburgh," Carnegie Magazine 53/3:4-21 | |
| "Philip Johnson and PPG: A Date with History," Progressive Architecture 60 (July):60-61 | |
| The Roots of Architecture in Allegheny: A Guide to Research Sources. Pittsburgh:Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, 13 pp. (with H. Wilson) | |
| Downtown at CMU: Architectural Studies for Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle (Franklin Toker, ed.). Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University, 32 pp. | |
| "Carnegie Institute--A National Historic Site," Carnegie Magazine, 53/10:4-6 | |
| 1980 | John Richman, "James D. Van Trump: Studies in the Architecture of Pittsburgh," Western Pennsylvania Hhhhh |
| 1983 | 1982 "Victor Bourgeau" and "James O'Donnell" entries in MacMillan Encyclopedia of Architects. New York: MacMillan. |
| 1983 | "Magnifico et visibili principio dicti operis: Arnolfo di Cambio a S. Maria del Fiore," Roma Anno 1300: Atti del IV Settimana di Studi di Storia dell'arte medievale dell'Universita di Roma (1980). Rome:71-79 |
| "Arnolfo's S. Maria del Fiore: A Working Hypothesis," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 42:101-12 | |
| Rie of J. K. Ochsner, H. H. Richardson: Complete Architectural Works, in Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 66:373-75. | |
| 1984 | "Oakland: The Second Founding of Pittsburgh," Urban Design International 5/1:34-35, 40 |
| 1985 | "Gothic Architecture by Remote Control: An Illustrated Building Contract of 1340," Art Bulletin 67:67-95 |
| "Alberti's Ideal Architect: Renaissance--or Gothic?," Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh Smyth. Florence, Giunti Barbera:667-74 | |
| 1986 | "Reversing an Urban Image: New Architecture in Pittsburgh, 1890-1980," Sister Cities: Pittsburgh and Sheffield. Pittsburgh, Carnegie- Mellon University Press:1-12 |
| Review of M. Girouard, Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History, in Historic Preservation 38/4:60 | |
| Review of S. Tatman & R. Moss, Biographical Dictionary of Philadelphia Architects:1700-1930, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 45:424 | |
| 1987 | "Pittsburgh: Une renaissance et demie--la mutation d'une ville et de son image," in Amenager l'urbain: de Montreal a San Francisco: politiques et design urbains (A. Germain, J.-C. Marsan ed.) Montreal: Editions du MÇridien:160-177 |
| 1988 | Review of H. Gotz, Castel del Monte: Gestalt und Symbol der Architektur Friedrichs II, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 47:415-416 |
| 1989 | "Early Medieval Florence: Between History and Archaeology," in Medieval Archaeology (Charles Redman ed). Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 60. Binghamton NY:261-283 |
| Review of Chicago Architecture 1872-1922: Birth of a Metropolis, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 48:91-93 | |
| Review of D. Olsen, The City as a Work of Art: London, Paris, Vienna, in Design Book Review17 (Winter 1989):32-33 | |
| "Remaking Pittsburgh: A Cautionary Tale," in Remaking Cities. Edited by B. Davis, D. Lewis. Pittsburgh:30-35 | |
| Review of J. Van Trump, Majesty of the Law: The Court Houses of Allegheny County, in Pittsburgh History 72:152-4. | |
| 1992 | "Building on Paper: The Role of Architectural Drawings in Late-Medieval Italy,"in Actes du XXVIIe Congres international d'histoire de l'art. Strasbourg, UniversitÇ de Strasbourg. 6: 31-50. |
| 1993 | "Projects for a Fine Arts Building at the University of Pittsburgh" (introduction and editor), in Planning the Pitt Campus: Dreams and Schemes Never Realized. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh: 45--89. |
| Review of Douglas Richardson, et al., A Not Unsightly Building: University College and Its History in The Journal of Canadian Art History 15/1 (1992):134-135. | |
| "Architecture's Greatest Hit: the invention of the Christian church," Pitt | |
| Review of Gary Hughes, Music of the Eye: Architectural Drawings of Canada's First City, 1822-1914 in The Journal of Canadian Art History 15/2 (1993):106-108. | |
| 1995 | Review of Randall J. Van Vynckt, ed., International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture, in TheJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians 54 (1995):378--379. |
| "Fra committente e cantiere: gli architetti delle cattedrali gotiche," in Il Duomo di Orvieto e le Grandi Cattedrali del Duecento. Rome: Nuova ERI Edizioni Rai: 357- -367. | |
| Review of David Kroyanker, Jerusalem Architecture, in Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte 58 (1995):417-419. | |
| 1996 | "Pittsburgh," in The Dictionary of Art. London: MacMillan |
| Review of Antonio Paolucci et al., Il Battistero di San Giovanni a Firenze/ The Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (in press) | |
| 1998 | "Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr.," in American National Biography (in press) |