A.B., M.A. and Ph.D., History of Art, University of Michigan

Professor Breisch is the Director of the School’s Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, which, under his leadership has been the recipient of California Preservation Foundation President’s and a Los Angeles Conservancy Preservation awards. He has taught at SCI-Arc, The University of Delaware, and The University of Texas at Austin. Professor Breisch has published numerous articles, book reviews and book chapters on American architectural history, especially in the areas of library design and vernacular building. His book, Henry Hobson Richardson and the Small Public Library in America: A Study in Typology, was published by MIT in 1997. He is the co-editor of Constructing Image, Identity and Place: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, IX (Nashville: University of Tennessee Press: 2003) and Building Place: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture X, which will be published in 2005. He is currently completing a book on the history of library design for the Library of Congress, which will also appear in 2005. His research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation and the University of Michigan. Professor Breisch has been a member of the board of directors of The Vernacular Architecture Forum and the Society of Architectural Historians and serves on the national Editorial Board for the 58 volume architectural guide series, Buildings of the United States. He has served on the Planning Commission and Library Board of the City of Santa Monica, as a consultant to the J. Paul Getty Trust Historic Preservation Grant Program, and as the National Preservation Officer for the Society of the Architectural Historians.