Marcus Whiffen
Marcus Whiffen (1916 - 2002) was an architectural historian and photographer specialising in British and American architecture. He was Professor Emeritus in the School of Architecture at Arizona State University.
Life and career[edit]
Marcus Whiffen was born in Ross on Wye, Herefordshire on 4 March 1916, the son of Thomas Jospeh Whiffen and Jessie Anne Hardy.[1]
He graduated at Cambridge University with a BA in 1937, and then completed his MA in 1946.[2]
Following his graduation, he joined The Architect and Building News in 1937. After the war, in 1946, he joined the Architectural Review (London) as Assistant Editor.[3]
Whiffen moved to the United States in 1952, where he held lecturer positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then at the University of Texas. In 1954 he joined Colonial Williamsburg as Architectural Historian . He moved to Arizona State University in 1960 where he held various positions, and finally as Professor Emeritus.[3]
Professor Whiffen served as Director of the Society of Architectural Historians (1969-1971, 1975-1978) and Director of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (1963-1968). His awards included the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Book Award for The Public Buildings of Williamsburg (1958) and the Arizona State University Alumni Association Faculty Achievement Award (1979).[4]
Marcus Whiffen died in Phoenix, Arizona in February 2002.[3]
Photographs by Marcus Whiffen are held at the Conway Library in the Courtauld, London, and are being digitised.[5]
Select bibilography[edit]
- Stuart and Georgian churches : the Architecture of the Church of England outside London 1603-1837. Marcus Whiffen. B. T. Batsford, 1948. ISBN 10: 1199549886ISBN
- Thomas Archer. Marcus Whiffen, Art & Technics, 1950. ASIN B0000CHSQV
- The Architecture of Sir Charles Barry in Manchester and Neighbourhood. Marcus Whiffen. Manchester, 1950.
- An Introduction to Elizabethan and Jacobean Architecture. Marcus Whiffen. Art & Technics, 1952. ASIN B0000CI8FD
- The Public Buildings of Williamsburg - colonial capital of Virginia - an architectural history. Marcus Whiffen. Williamsburg, Va. Colonial Williamsburg, 1958. ASIN B0007DPFK0
- American Architecture, 1607-1976. Marcus Whiffen. Cambridge : MIT Pr. 1981. ISBN: 9780262231053
- The Eighteenth-century houses of Williamsburg - a study of architecture and building in the colonial capital of Virginia. Marcus Whiffen. Williamsburg, Va. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1983. ASIN: B000GR8V5I
- Pueblo deco : The art deco architecture of the Southwest. Marcus Whiffen and Carla Breeze. Albuquerque. University of New Mexico Press, c1984. ISBN10: 0826306764
- American architecture since 1780 : a guide to the styles. Marcus Whiffen. Cambridge, Mass. London: MIT, 1992. ISBN: 9780262730570
References[edit]
- ↑ "White family". freepages.rootsweb.com. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ↑ "Marcus Whiffen Collection (WHF01) Archive Collection | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Marcus Whiffen - Design and the Arts Library Collections | ASU Library". lib.asu.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ↑ "Marcus Whiffen Collection 1930s-1990s Marcus Whiffen Collection". www.azarchivesonline.org. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ↑ "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 2020-06-30. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
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