Architectural Type and Character: A Practical Guide to a History of Architecture

Samir Younés is Professor of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame where he was Director of Rome Studies and Director of Graduate Studies. He teaches architectural design and theory. His books include: The Imperfect City, On Architectural Judgement; Architects and Mimetic Rivalry; The Intellectual Life of the Architect; The True, The Fictive, and The Real. Quatremère de Quincy’s Historical Dictionary of Architecture.

Carroll William Westfall’s PhD in the history of architecture from Columbia University was followed by five decades of teaching before retiring from the University of Notre Dame. His scholarly and general articles run from studies of Pompeii to critiques of current practice. His three books concern Rome in the 15thc., a dialectic exchange about historicism with Robert Jan van Pelt, and a review of architectural theory, Architecture, Liberty, and Civic Order: Architectural Theories from Vitruvius to Jefferson and Beyond.