Career
Education
- 1941-1942: University of California Berkeley
- 1942-1947: Yale University (interrupted by military service)
- 1947-1950: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, M. Arch.
Teaching
- 1951-1965: Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Design (formerly University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts)
- 1965-1982: Dean and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, School of Architecture, Princeton University
- 1990-1998: Henry Luce Professor of Architecture, Urbanism, and History, New York University
Honorary Degrees
- 1988: Honorary Doctorate, New Jersey School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
- 1999: Honorary Doctorate, City University of New York.
- 2018: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Princeton University.
Honors and Awards
- 1950: Harvard Graduate School of Design, American Institute of Architects, School Medal
- 1950: Harvard Graduate School of Design, Appleton Traveling Fellowship
- 1958: American Institute of Architects, Philadelphia Chapter, Gold Medal for the design of the Pender Laboratory, Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
- 1979: American Institute of Architects, Architecture Firm Award.
- 1984: Topaz Medallion awarded jointly by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and American Institute of Architecture.
- 1990: New York Institute for the Humanities, Fellow.
- 1994: National Academy of Design, Academician.
- 2005: American Institute of Architects, Philadelphia Chapter, John Harbeson Award.
- 2019: Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization Lifetime Achievement Award. The Consortium is a United Nations Habitat affiliate.
Archives
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Frances Loeb Library, The Robert Geddes Collection.
Subject: Geddes, Robert Louis, 1923, architect.
HOLLIS Number: 014379240
Keywords:
- Architects - United States
- Architecture - United States - 20th century
- City planning - United States - 20th century
Index:
- Professional Practice: Architecture
- Professional Practice: Urbanism
- Civic Engagement
- Education and Research
- Documents by Robert Geddes
- Documents by others
- FIT: An Architect’s Manifesto