Kevin Murphy
Professor of 19th- and 20th-Century European and
American Architecture and Theory

PhD, Northwestern University, 1992

kmurphy@gc.cuny.edu

Professor Kevin Murphy has written on historicism in the United States and France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His work has considered the variety of expressions of historicism in historic preservation projects, in the representation of medieval architecture in modernist painting, and in architectural historiography. He has written on French architect and theorist Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, on the Colonial Revival in the United States, and on the historiography of early American architecture. Professor Murphy also taught in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. He has held Fulbright, Chateaubriand, and National Gallery of Art fellowships, and a Graham Foundation grant.

Publications:

The American Townhouse. Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

Colonial Revival Maine. Princeton Architectural Press, 2004.

Memory and Modernity: Viollet-le-Duc at Vézelay. Penn State Press, 2000.

Edited with Sarah Giffen. A Noble and Dignified Stream: The Piscataqua Region in the Colonial Revival, 1860-1930. Old York Historical Society, Maine, 1992. Winner of the Ruth Emery Award for Nineteenth-Century Studies.

"Cubism and the Gothic Tradition." Architecture and Cubism. Eve Blau and Nancy J. Troy, eds. Canadian Center for Architecture, and MIT Press, 1997.

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