PHILIP BESS is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the
University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. He teaches graduate
urban design and theory, and works professionally as a design
consultant for municipalities, architects and community development
corporations working through the office of Thursday Associates. From
1987-88 he was the director and principal designer of the Urban
Baseball Park Design Project of the Society for American Baseball
Research; and in Boston in August 2000 he directed and coordinated the
ultimately successful "Save Fenway Park!" design charrette. Prof. Bess
is the author of City Baseball Magic: Plain Talk and Uncommon Sense About Cities and Baseball Parks (1989), Inland Architecture: Subterranean Essays on Moral Order and Formal Order in Chicago (2000), and most recently Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred
(2007). Prof. Bess holds an M.Arch from the University of Virginia
(1981), a Master of Theological Studies in church history (M.T.S.) from
the Harvard Divinity School (1976), and a B.A. in philosophy from
Whittier College (1973). |
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