Turpin Bannister

Turpin Chambers Bannister (* 1904 in Lima, Ohio, † March 15, 1982 in Williston, Florida ) was an American architectural historian. He taught for many years at the University of Illinois and the University of Florida.

Life

Bannister graduated in 1925 as B. A. at the Denison University in Granville (Ohio ), and earned a master 's degree in 1928 at Columbia University. From 1932 to 1944 he taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. During the Great Depression, he took part in projects of the Works Projects Administration (WPA ).

Bannister was one of the initiators, which inspired the creation of an Association of Architectural Historians during the Harvard Summer Session 1938. He was elected on 31 July 1940 the first President of the Society of Architectural Historians today, the magazine he led for many years

Bannister completed his studies in 1944 at the Faculty of Architecture at Harvard with the Ph.D. from. After four years in Alabama, he began in 1948 at the University of Illinois at Urbana to teach as a professor of architecture. After ten years he moved on to the University of Florida, but suffered a stroke in 1965.

The enthusiastic " Fraternity man" was a member of numerous student and professional associations. He has published frequently and on a variety of topics.

Writings

• An introduction to architecture (1937 )
• Iron and architecture: A study in building and Invention from Ancient Times to 1700 (1944)
• One hundred books on architecture (1945 )
• The architecture of the octagon in New York State (1945 )
• Modern architecture: A syllabus of buildings Illustrating the development of architecture since the mid - eighteenth century (1957 )
• Medieval architecture: A syllabus of buildings Illustrating the development of European architecture from the fourth through the fifteenth centuries (1959 )
• Oglethorpe 's sources for the Savannah Plan ( 1961)