Stanford Anderson is an architect and Professor of History and Architecture i
n the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has taught since 1963. He co-founded and directed MIT s pioneering PhD program in History, Theory and Criticism of Art, Architecture, and Urban Form from 1974 to 1991. He served as Head of the Department of Architecture from 1991 to 2005.
Anderson was the 2004 AIA/ACSA Topaz Laureate, the highest American award in architectural education. In 1997 colleagues and former students honored him with a Festschrift (Martha Pollak, ed., The Education of the Architect: Historiography, Urbanism, and the Growth of Architectural Knowledge (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1997).
Anderson s research and writing concern architectural theory, modern architecture in Europe and America, American urbanism, and epistemology and historiography. Among his numerous publications, Anderson translated and wrote the introductory essay for Hermann Muthesius: Style-Architecture and Building-Art: Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth Century and its Present Condition (Santa Monica, CA: The Getty Center, 1994). He is the author of Peter Behrens: A New Architecture for the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000. Italian edition, Milan:Electa, 2002). He is the entrepreneur and editor of Eladio Dieste: Innovation in Structural Art (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004). His MIT traveling exhibition on Dieste has been seen in North and South America, and will travel in Europe starting in Rome in April 2007. He is now co-editing a volume titled Alvar Aalto and America.
Anderson was educated in architecture at the universities of Minnesota and California, and holds a PhD in history of art from Columbia University. He was a Fulbright fellow in Munich in 1961-62, taught at the Architectural Association in London in 1962-63, and was a resident Fellow of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, 1970-1972.1