Background
Winter was born in Indianapolis.
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Robert Winter
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He received his undergraduate degree (Bachelor of Arts) from Dartmouth College and his Doctor of Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University.
Career
He is the Arthur G. Coons Professor of the History of Ideas, Emeritus, at Occidental College, Los Los Angeles He is particularly known for his contributions to the history of the California branch of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Early in his career he taught at Dartmouth, at Bowdoin, and at the University of California, Los Los Angeles
He joined the faculty at Occidental in 1963 and retired in 1994.
Winter lives in Pasadena in the Batchelder House that formerly belonged to tilemaker Ernest Batchelder, about whom he wrote the definitive Batchelder history, Batchelder Tilemaker (1999). Winter is the author of numerous books including The California Bungalow (1980) and American Bungalow Style (1996).
With David Gebhard he co-authored guides to architecture in northern and southern California. In 2007, Winter was made a Fellow the Society of Architectural Historians.
