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Franklin Toker...
Franklin Toker is a dedicated nonspecialist and popular teacher and lecturer. A broadly based scholar who was the first non-Italian called to teach the history of art at the University of Florence, Toker has researched the Gothic Revival, the ancient cathedral of Florence (whose excavation he directed), and the architecture and urban history of Pittsburgh. A past president of the international Society of Architectural Historians, Franklin Toker is a Professor of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches urban history and the history of Medieval and American architecture. Apart from his books, Dr. Toker has published several dozen scholarly articles on topics from Roman archaeology, Gothic architectural drawings, and Renaissance architectural theory, to the work of H.H. Richardson, Post-Modern architecture, and American urban history. In 1971 his first book, The Church of Notre-Dame in MontrŽal, won the Hitchcock Award as the most distinguished new book on the history of architecture. Later published in a French edition, it was reissued in a second English edition by McGill-Queen's University Press. In 1980 the College Art Association awarded Toker's Art Bulletin article on "Florence Cathedral: The Design Stage" the Porter Prize for the best essay on any branch of art. Dr. Toker subsequently held appointments as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of Villa I Tatti in Florence, and a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Born in MontrŽal in 1944 to a family that has lived for seven generations in French Canada, Franklin Toker obtained degrees in Fine Arts from McGill University, Oberlin College, and Harvard University. His current work is The Florence Duomo Project, a four-volume archaeological history of Medieval Florence and its cathedral that incorporates results of his archaeological excavations below the cathedral of S. Maria del Fiore in Florence. On his American side, Toker's Pittsburgh: A New Portrait has received considerable national attention as the definitive presentation of one of the world's most notable cities. Outside of his academic work, Prof. Toker is active in civic improvements in Pittsburgh and in architectural and urban preservation. He frequently lectures on architectural and urban topics to national and international audiences, which have included India, China, and Japan. Books By Franklin Toker
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