Name William Jordy | Education Yale University (1948) | |
Died August 10, 1997, Riverside, Rhode Island, United States Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Buildings of Rhode Island, American Buildings and Their, "Symbolic essence" and other, Henry Adams: scientific, American Buildings and Their | ||
William H. Jordy (1917 – 10 August 1997) was a leading American architectural historian. At the time of his death, Jordy was Henry Ledyard Goddard Professor Emeritus of Art History at Brown University, where he taught for many years.
Jordy received his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1948. He joined the Yale faculty that year and remained until 1955, when he joined the Department of Art History at Brown, and began the long teaching career for which he is famous.
His books include two volumes of the five-volume American Buildings and Their Architects series and Buildings of Rhode Island (published posthumously) in the Society of Architectural Historians Buildings of the United States series. He contributed occasionally to the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and wrote regularly on architectural subjects for The New Criterion.