Five years ago, Robert Twombly retired as Professor of Architectural History from the Spitzer School, but continues to give spring semester seminars on twentieth-century architects. He has authored dozens of essays and reviews, biographies of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, has edited Sullivan's Public Papers, and with Narciso Menocal published Louis Sullivan: the Poetry of Architecture containing, with much else, a catalogue raisonee of all Sullivan's extant drawings. His best book, he says, is Power & Style: A Critique of Twentieth-Century Architecture in the United States that almost no one read or reviewed because, he says, "it was too overtly political for the profession." He originally wanted to call it "Kiss My Arch" but his publisher refused. In recent years he has edited the Essential Texts of Louis Kahn, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Andrew Jackson Downing, and is currently at work revising a manuscript tentatively entitled Philip Johnson's Fascist Career, 1933-1940. He hopes someday to finish writing his murder mystery featuring a pair of architects as sleuths.

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