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Professor Robert Craig will present A Scholar's Response to the Architecture Centennial as part of the College of Architecture's Spring 2008 Research Forum Series.

The College of Architecture's COA Research Forums provide an informal setting for the community to learn about research within the College of Architecture. Forums are free and open to the public and participants are invited to explore ideas and identify opportunities for collaboration.

All talks are held in the Architecture Library from 11:00AM to 12:00PM on the last Thursday of August through April. Talks are 30 to 45 minutes followed by questions and discussion.

Robert M. Craig is Professor in the Architecture Program and has taught at Georgia Tech since 1973. He specializes in 19th and early 20th century architecture and offers courses surveying American, modern, and medieval architecture, as well as seminars on Frank Lloyd Wright, on Atlanta architecture, and on the Architecture of the Arts and Crafts Movement. He has presented over 100 scholarly papers at academic conferences and has lectured in Australia, China, Europe, and the United States. His photographs of buildings have illustrated articles and books which he and others have authored.

Craig is author of Bernard Maybeck at Principia College: The Art and Craft of Building (Gibbs Smith, 2004), which won the SESAH book award, in 2005. In 1995, he also authored Atlanta Architecture: Art Deco to Modern Classic, 1929-1959. Craig is co-author with John Portman and Aldo Castellano of a book on the Atlanta architect