Robert Bruegmann

Robert Bruegmann is a historian and critic of the built environment. After his 1976 PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1979, where he is currently distinguished professor emeritus of Art History, Architecture and Urban Planning. Among his books are The Architects and the City: Holabird & Roche of Chicago 1880-1918 (1996), Sprawl: A Compact History (2005), The Architecture of Harry Weese (2010), and the edited volume Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern America (2018). His main areas of research are the history of architecture, urban planning, landscape, and historic preservation.