 | Robert Bork received a B.A. in physics from Harvard University, an M.S. in physics from the University of California-Santa Cruz, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in architectural history from Princeton University. A specialist in the study of Gothic architecture, he has taught a variety of courses in medieval and northern Renaissance art, receiving a Collegiate Teaching Award. He is author of Great Spires: Skyscrapers of the New Jerusalem (2003), editor of De Re Metallica: The Uses of Metal in the Middle Ages (2005), and author of Gotische Türme in Mitteleuropa (forthcoming 2008). His articles have appeared in the Art Bulletin, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Res, and in several books on art history and building technology. He has served since 2004 as president of AVISTA, the Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art. His current research on the geometry of Gothic architectural drawings has received support not only from the University of Iowa, but also from the American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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