David P. Handlin is an American architect and architectural historian.
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Life and career
Handlin was born in Boston, the son of the historian Oscar Handlin and his first wife, Mary Flug Handlin. He studied at Harvard University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design and earned a doctorate from Cambridge University.
He was a lecturer in architecture at Cambridge from 1973 to 1978 and an associate professor in architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of design from 1973 to 1978. He later founded the architecture firm of Handlin, Garrahan, Zachos and Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of which he is president.
Handlin has written two survey books, The American Home, Architecture and Society, 1815–1915 and American Architecture. He has been characterized as a conservative architectural historian.