other tradition of American architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis I. Kahn, The

Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Summer 2003 by McCarter, Robert

Robert McCarter is professor of architecture at the University of Florida, where he was director of the School of Architecture from 1991-2001. Before that appointment, he held the positions of assistant dean and associate professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University, 1986-1991.

McCarter is the author of definitive monographs on the architects Frank Lloyd Wright (Phaidon, 1997) and Louis I. Kahn (Phaidon, 2003), has written and edited a number of other books, and contributed to numerous scholarly publications including The Oxford Companion to United States History, The Dictionary of 20th Century Architecture, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and 50 Key Thinkers on the Environment. McCarter is also a practicing architect, president of D-Mc^sup 2^ Architecture, P.A., Gainesvillle, Florida, since 1991, and his firm has designed a broad range of project types, including church, health care, horse farm, community building, housing prototypes, and custom houses.