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Robert Tavernor (born 1954) is an English Emeritus Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and founding director of the Tavernor Consultancy in London that has advised on many prominent urban design projects in the city. He is an internationally renowned architecture historian and urbanist, who published widely on architecture and urban design, including the impact of tall buildings on historic cities. He has a long and distinguished academic career, having been appointed to the prestigious Forbes Chair in Architecture at the University of Edinburgh at age 36. == Biography == Tavernor was born in England and studied architecture in London (BA and Dip. Arch with Distinction, 1973–79), Rome (British Prix de Rome in Architecture at the British School at Rome, 1979–80), and at the University of Cambridge (St John's College, 1980–83, doctorate awarded 1985), where his PhD thesis, ''Concinnitas in the Architectural Theory and Practice of Leon Battista Alberti'', was supervised by Joseph Rykwert. He is a registered architect and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (since 1985). He has held multiple academic posts in the UK. He was formerly Forbes Professor of Architecture at the University of Edinburgh (1992–95), Professor of Architecture and Head of the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath (1995–2005), LSE Professor of Architecture and Urban Design (2005–2011) and Director of the LSE Cities Programme (2005–08). He held various visiting academic posts internationally, including Visiting Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA, 1998), European Union Visiting Scholar in planning and conservation at the University of Texas A&M (2002); and Visiting Professor in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo, Brazil (2004), and the University of Bath (since 2009). He founded the Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture (CASA) at Bath, and with Vaughan Hart, established a focus on Classical and Italian Renaissance architectural treatises; between them they have translated and written about the leading classical architectural theorists – including, Vitruvius, Alberti, Serlio and Palladio. He was a Higher Education Funding Council for Education (HEFCE), and national assessor for the Architecture and the Built Environment sub-panel of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE2008). He is on the Faculty of the Fine Arts of the British School at Rome. Tavernor initiated (with co-authors) a series of acclaimed modern translations of the principal classical architectural treatise writers – Vitruvius, Alberti and Palladio – and is the sole author of equally widely acclaimed parallel monographs on these subjects published by the world's leading presses (Yale and MIT). His book on Alberti, for example, was described as "the last and the best of the books on Alberti on this scale in the twentieth century" (Chronique). He pioneered the use of the computer to visualise urban forms in architectural exhibitions, co-curating with Rykwert in 1994 the international exhibition of Alberti's work at Palazzo Te in Mantua for the computer firm Olivetti. As a consultant architect and urbanist he applied his knowledge of architectural history, design and the visual representation of buildings in advising planners and architects on the form, character and height of the tallest buildings in the City of London (including Heron Tower and The Pinnacle) and along the south bank of the Thames. He advised on several large urban masterplan projects in London (including Battersea Power Station), which led to him being invited in 2007, by former Russian Senator Gordeev, to assemble and to contribute his expertise to an international masterplanning team to re-configure the city of Perm (population of 1 million) in the southern Urals. The published masterplan led by KCAP was awarded the Grand Prix at the Moscow Architecture Biennale in May 2010. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Tavernor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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