Crouch, Dora Delia Polk

Born: Ann Arbor, MI, February 15, 1931 BA, MA, Ph.D., UCLA 1965, 1967, 1969

Professional Experience:

1969-70 Assistant Professor of Art, California State U., San Francisco 1970-71 Assistant Professor of Architecture, U. California at Berkeley 1971-72 Lecturer, Art Department, UCLA 1972-75 Assistant Professor of Art, California State U, Dominguez Hills 1975-85 Associate Professor of Architecture, RPI 1985-89 Professor of Architectural History, RPI

Publications: Articles

"Architecture as Symbolic Language," in ETC, periodical of the Semanticists Society, 1970.

"A Note on the Population and Area of Palmyra," in Melanges, University of St. Joseph's, Beirut, Lebanon, 1973.

"Urban Design in Cities of the Roman Empire," in Eksitics, December 1976, pp. 343-346.

"The Laws of the Indies Revisited" in Town Planning Review, July 1977, pp. 247-268; October 1977, pp. 397-418 (with Axel Mundigo).

"A History of Urban Open Space," in Lisa Taylor, ed., Urban Open Space, New York: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1980.

"The Hellenistic Water System of Morgentina, Sicily: Some Questions for the History of Urbanization," in American Journal of Archeology, July 1984, pp. 353-356.

"Roman and Spanish Colonization," for Proceedings of "Settlements in the Americas" Symposium, forthcoming.

Publications: Books

Spanish City Planning in North America. Axel Mundigo and Daniel Garr, co-authors. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982.

History of Architecture: From Stonehenge to Skyscrapers. New York: McGraw-Hill Company, 1985.

Architecture Thesaurus, Volume I of Art and Architecture Thesaurus, 1984. Toni Peterson and Pat Molholt, co-editors.

Dora P. Crouch was born Dora Delia Polk in Ann Arbor MI on February 12, 1931. On a 1949 tuition scholarship she attended Eastern Montana College 1950-51 and the University of Michigan 1951-55. She continued her studies at UCLA in 1964, earning her BA in 1965, her MA in 1967, and her Ph.D., with distinction, in 1969. She held a variety of assistant professor positions in Art and Architecture at California institutions before accepting an associate professorship in architecture at RPI in 1975. She was granted tenure there in 1978, and became full professor of architectural history there in 1985. She has done scholarly work on urban history, particularly early classical and Spanish Colonial urban design. RPI sponsored her 1980-1, 1985 and 1988 sabbaticals. She retired in 1989.