Elizabeth Dowling |
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Ph.D., Arch., University of Pennsylvania
M.Arch., University of Illinois
B.Arch., Georgia Institute of Technology
Architecture History
Elizabeth Dowling |
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| Associate Professor Phone: 404 894-3803 Office: Mez 6 |
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Betty Dowling is an Associate Professor of architectural history and a registered architect. She received her Bachelor of Architecture from Georgia Tech, 1971, the Master of Architecture from the University of Illinois, 1972 and the Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, 1981. Dr. Dowling is a tenured Associate Professor who has taught at Georgia Tech's College of Architecture for over 25 years. In addition to teaching courses on Renaissance and Classical topics, she developed the College of Architecture Summer Program in Italy. Since 1993, graduate and undergraduate students have experienced the history of art and architecture from the Etruscan to the Baroque period through on site instruction. The teaching in this international program is shared equally by Professors Dowling, Allen and Economou. In 2000, she received the Distinguished Faculty Award from the Georgia Tech Women's Leadership Conference and the College of Architecture Faculty Service Award for her leadership efforts to increase the number of women and minority students in the college. In the area of research, she received an International Book Award from the American Institute of Architects and a Bronze Medal from the Georgia AIA for her book American Classicist: the architecture of Philip Trammell Shutze, Rizzoli Publications International, 1989, 2nd edition 2001.
Her present research involves currently practicing classical and traditional designers and an associated investigation into the growing interest in all forms of Eclectic design from Gothic churches to Renaissance villas. In recognition of her instruction in classical architecture, she received the Arthur Ross Award given by Classical America in the field of education, 2001.
Her most recent books are Timeless Architecture: homes of distinction by Harrison Design Associates, Schiffer Publishing, 2003 and New Classicism: the rebirth of traditional architecture, Rizzoli Publications International, 2004. These books present the current work of selected British and American classicists.