Hudds prof chosen by U.S. for Rome architecture summer institute
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel commissioned of artist Michaelangelo by Julius II
Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:05:00 BST
Professor Nicholas Temple will be working with the USA’s National Endowment for the Humanities
ROME and its architecture have been major research areas for the University of Huddersfield’s Professor Nicholas Temple (pictured left). Now, his latest book on the subject, shortlisted for an international award, has led to a prestigious appointment lecturing an audience of American academics during a summer school taking place in Rome itself.
The book is entitled Renovatio Urbis: Architecture, Urbanism and Ceremony in the Rome of Julius II (published by Routledge), which deals with the architecture of Rome during the Renaissance. The subject ties in closely with the theme of a Summer Institute planned by the USA’s National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), dealing with the English travellers of the 17th-18th centuries for whom Rome was the destination on their “Grand Tour” of Europe.
Professor Temple’s expertise in the architecture and topography of Rome, as encountered by the Grand Tourists, led to an invitation to lecture and conduct seminars during the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute – entitled Cicero and English Travellers amid the Monuments of Rome – which will be based at an American university in the city and take place in July/August 2015. The event will be attended by university and college lecturers from the USA.
Earlier in 2014, Professor Temple’s book on Renaissance Rome was shortlisted in one of the categories of the annual Book and Journal Awards of CICA – the International Committee of Architectural Critics – being nominated for the 2014 Bruno Zevi Book Award.
The book did not land the prize, but its content and expertise helped to secure Professor Temple’s appointment as collaborator for the NEH Summer Institute in Rome, which will be based at the John Cabot University, founded in 1972 for English-speaking students.
Later this year sees the publication of Professor Temple’s newest book. He is co-editor and a contributor to Bishop Robert Grosseteste and Lincoln Cathedral: Tracing Relationships between Medieval Concepts of Order and Built Form (published by Ashgate).
The book, which investigates the Bishop’s relationship to the medieval cathedral at Lincoln and the surrounding city, aims to contribute to the understanding of Gothic architecture in early 13th-century England.
