Living with Architecture as Art - The Peter W. May Collection of Architectural Drawings, Models and Artefacts, 2 volumes (Coffret)

Biographie de Maureen Cassidy-Geiger

MAUREEN CASSIDY-GEIGER is a curator, scholar and educator with special expertise in European decorative arts, patterns of collecting and display, and the history of architecture, court culture, gardening, the arts of the table and travel. Curator of such groundbreaking exhibitions as Fragile Diplomacy : Meissen Porcelain for European Courts, ca. 1710-63 (BGC/YUP, 2007) and The Grand Cure (Die Grande Kur) : A Disabled Saxon Prince and his Tour of Italy, 1738-40 (Dresden State Museums, 2018), her most recent book on architecture was The Philip Johnson Glass House : An Architect in the Garden (New York, 2016).
CHARLES HIND is Chief Curator and H J Heinz Curator of Drawings at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London. He has published widely on architectural history from the 16th to the 20h centuries and is general editor of the RIBA 's forthcoming catalogue of drawings by Andrea Palladio in British Collections. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Visiting Fellow at the Centro Palladio in Vicenza and a Trustee of both the Georgian Group and the Lutyens Trust.
BASILE BAUDEZ is Assistant Professor of 18th- and 19th-Century European Architectural History at Princeton University. His publications include A Civic Utopia. Architecture and the City in France, 1765-1837 (London, 2016) and Architecture et tradition académique au siècle des Lumières (Rennes, 2012). His next book, Inessential Colors. Architecture on Paper in Early-Modern Europe will be published in Fall 2021.
MATTHEW WELLS is Lecturer at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zürich. His PhD thesis, which was awarded the Theodor-Fischer-Preis (2019) and commended in the RIBA President's Awards for Research (2017), explored the purpose and use of architectural models in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is currently working on a monograph based on the research, which provides a new understanding of how London was conceptualised, debated, and constructed through architectural models.