Background
Campbell, Robert was born on March 31, 1937 in Buffalo. Son of R. Douglas and Amy (Armitage) Campbell.
Campbell, Robert was born on March 31, 1937 in Buffalo. Son of R. Douglas and Amy (Armitage) Campbell.
Campbell is a graduate of Harvard College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he received the Appleton Traveling Fellowship and Francis Kelley Prize.
He is currently the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the Boston Globe. He lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Architect and critic Campbell entered private practice as an architect in 1975, as a consultant for the improvement or expansion of cultural institutions, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
He has been an urban design consultant to cities and is an advisor to the Mayors" Institute on City Design, which he helped foundation
In 1997 he was architect-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome. In 2002 he helped plan and appeared in a television series, “Beyond the Big Dig”.
Poet and photographer Campbell"s poems have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and Harvard Review, among other publications. His photographs have also been published widely.
Teaching Campbell has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Boston Architectural College, and the University of North Carolina.
He also is a former Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1993-2002 he was visiting Sam Gibbons Eminent Scholar in Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of South Florida, and in 2002 he was Max Fisher Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan. In 2003 he was a Senior Fellow in the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University.
Member of advisory board University of Virginia School Architecture. Member Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association. Proprietor Boston Athenaeum.
Fellow American Institute of Architects (national design committee, medal for criticism 1980), American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Boston Architectural Center (honorary life), Boston Society Architects, American Architectural Foundation (board regents), Cambridge Club, St. Botolph Club, Tavern Club, Examiner Club, Century Association (New York City), Saturday Club, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Janice Jaye Gold, February 2, 1969 (divorced 1990). 1 child, Nicholas.