James F. O'Gorman (born 1933) is a leading American

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, author, lecturer, editor, and consultant who taught for many years at

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. O'Gorman received a B.Arch. degree from the

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in 1956 and an M.Arch. from the

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, in 1961. He earned a Ph.D. in Art History from

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in 1966. O'Gorman is particularly known for his research and writing on the nineteenth-century American architects

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, Hammatt Billings,

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, and Gervase Wheeler. He is also known for his popular introduction to architecture: ''ABC of Architecture''. O'Gorman has retired from teaching and currently resides in

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. He was named a Fellow of the

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in 2007.

Books

*O'Gorman, James F., ''ABC of Architecture'',

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, Philadelphia 1998, *O'Gorman, James F., ''Accomplished in All Departments of Art: Hammatt Billings of Boston, 1818-1874'',

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, Amherst 1998, *O'Gorman, James F., ''The Architecture of Frank Furness'',

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, Philadelphia 1973 *O'Gorman, James F., editor, ''Aspects of American Printmaking, 1800-1950'',

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, Syracuse 1988, *O'Gorman, James F., ''Connecticut Valley Vernacular: The Vanishing Landscape and Architecture of the New England Tobacco Fields'',

, Philadelphia 2002, *O'Gorman, James F., ''H. H. Richardson: Architectural Forms for an American Society,''

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, Chicago 1987, *O'Gorman, James F., ''H. H. Richardson and His Office: Selected Drawings,'' David R. Godine, Boston 1974, *O'Gorman, James F., ''Living Architecture: A Biography of H. H. Richardson,'' Simon & Schuster, NY 1997, *O'Gorman, James F., ''On the Boards: Drawings by Nineteenth-century Boston Architects'',

, Philadelphia 1989, *O'Gorman, James F., ''Three American Architects: Richardson, Sullivan, and Wright, 1865-1915'',

, Chicago 1991, *O'Gorman, James F., ''The Architecture of the Monastic Library in Italy 1300-1600'',

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, New York 1972 *O'Gorman, James F., ''This Other Gloucester'', Boston 1976 *O'Gorman, James F., ''The Landscape & Architecture of Wellesley College'', Wellesley 2000 *O'Gorman, James F., ''The Perspective of Anglo-American Architecture'', Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 1995 *O'Gorman, James F., ''American Architects and Their Books to 1848'',

, Amherst 2001 *O'Gorman, James F., ''The Makers of Trinity Church in the City of Boston'',

, Amherst 2004 *O'Gorman, James F., ''Henry Austin'',

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, Middletown 2009

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ogorman, James F. Living people 1933 births American architecture writers American male non-fiction writers American art historians American architectural historians American biographers Wellesley College faculty Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts alumni Writers from Maine People from Windham, Maine Harvard University alumni Washington University in St. Louis alumni University of Illinois School of Architecture alumni