Why Memorize This?!!
“At the beginning of my building codes class, the students ask why they need to memorize all this," Robert Arthur King recalls. "It has nothing to do with design, they think. Then they realize it has everything to do with design."
An Adjunct Professor at the New York School of Interior Design since the spring of 1989, King teaches that class in building codes, as well as additional courses including building mechanical systems, basic and advance drafting, historic preservation, and more.
"I like telling the little details and enlightening people," he says, "getting 'I did not know that' responses."
LECTURES
King also offers lectures on a variety of topics - Jewish, Women and Black Architects from the 19th Century among them. He has given these lectures at a local City Island, Bronx, NY theatre, as well as University Clubs and other venues. For more information, or to schedule a lecture with Robert Arthur King, please email us.
Lectures For Download
Jewish Architects | 19th Century
From Dankmar Adler to Rudolph Schindler, Jewish Architects have contributed significantly
to architecture in the nineteenth century in all styles from Beaux Arts ranging through Art
Deco and International Style. King focuses on architects who were born Jewish in the
19th century and their contribution and achievements in the architectural profession.
Women Architects | 19th Century
From J. Louise Blanchard and Marion Lucy Mahoney to Sophia G. Hayden and Julia
Morgan and a list of many others, women architects have contributed significantly to
architecture in the nineteenth century in all styles from Beaux Arts through Art Deco and
International Style. Within the field of architecture women have taken second place in
noting their achievements and have taken a back seat to the male architects. As minorities,
within the profession of architecture, they achieved projects both nationally and
internationally with great odds working against them. King focuses on these architects who
were born women in the 19th century and their contribution and achievements in the
architectural profession.
Black Architects | 19th Century
From Robert Robinson Taylor to Paul Revere Williams, Black Architects have contributed
significantly to architecture in the twentieth century in all styles from Beaux Arts ranging
through Art Deco and International Style. As minorities they achieved projects both
nationally and internationally with great odds against them. King focuses on architects who
were born Black in the 19th century and their contribution and achievements in the
architectural profession.
Titles & Locations of Past Lectures
