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Renaissance and baroque architecture; history of architectural theory; history of 17th century science.
3124 Art & Arch
Phone: 734.936.0208 lmsoo@umich.edu Architecture Faculty Page
Lydia Soo received her PhD in Architecture from Princeton University in 1989 (MA 1983). She also holds degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: an M.Arch., 1978, and a BS in Architectural Studies, 1976. Soo is an historian of architecture and architectural theory who is internationally recognized for her work on the seventeenth-century British architect Sir Christopher Wren. During the winter term of 2003 Soo was the Laing Visiting Professor in Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her 1998 book Wren's "Tracts" on Architecture and Other Writings has been reissued in paperback (2007). She has written articles examining specific problems of seventeenth-century culture, theory, and architecture, including "A Baroque City?: London After the Great Fire of 1666" in Giambattista Nolli, Rome and Mapping: Before and After the Pianta Grande, forthcoming, and "The Study of China and Chinese Architecture in Restoration England," in Architectura: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Baukunst, 2001.
