C. Edson Armi
{{Short description|American architectural historian}}
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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C. Edson Armi is an American historian of architecture. Armi is professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara.{{Cite web |title=C. Edson Armi {{!}} History of Art and Architecture - UC Santa Barbara |url=https://www.arthistory.ucsb.edu/people/c-edson-armi |access-date=2023-09-30 |website=www.arthistory.ucsb.edu}}
Biography
Armi received his B.A. from Columbia College in 1967, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1973.{{Cite web |title=Armi, C. Edson {{!}} Dictionary of Art Historians |url=https://arthistorians.info/armic |access-date=2023-09-30 |website=arthistorians.info}} His research spans Romanesque architecture and sculpture,{{Cite journal |last=Ambrose |first=Kirk |date=January 2020 |title=C. Edson Armi, Cluny and the Origins of Burgundian Romanesque Sculpture in Burgundy: The Architecture, Sculpture and Narrative of the "Avenas" Master. (Bibliotheca Archaeologica 57.) Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2019. P. 124; many color and 5 black-and-white figures. $108. ISBN: 978-88-1748-3. |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/706281 |journal=Speculum |language=en |volume=95 |issue=1 |pages=191–192 |doi=10.1086/706281 |issn=0038-7134|url-access=subscription }} Gothic art, and 20th century American car designs.{{Cite journal |last=Hyde |first=Charles K. |date=1990 |title=The Art of American Car Design: The Profession and Personalities—"Not Simple like Simon" by C. Edson Armi, and: Power behind the Wheel: Creativity and the Evolution of the Automobile by Walter J. Boyne (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/888893 |journal=Technology and Culture |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=314–315 |issn=1097-3729}} He began his career at the University of Chicago as an assistant professor in 1974 before moving to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an associate professor in 1977. In 1992, Armi joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
In 1999, Armi received a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on a book on Romanesque building construction that was published in 2004.{{Cite web |title=C. Edson Armi |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/c-edson-armi/ |access-date=2023-09-30 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... |language=en-US}}
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