Warren C. Boeschenstein

B.A., Amherst College;
B.Arch., Washington University;
M.Arch. U.D., Harvard University

Merrill D. Peterson Professor

Warren Boeschenstein teaches courses in architectural design and physical planning. With particular interests in urban design and transportation, he has developed plans for transit-oriented communities along the Washington, DC / Richmond Corridor and in Northern Virginia, work that has received national and state design awards. The author of articles on city design published in international journals, Mr. Boeschenstein teaches a course, Design Themes of Great Cities, which focuses on the character of outstanding world cities. He has assisted the City of Charlottesville in a range of projects from the initiation of the City?s greenbelt to redeveloping the University?s ?Corner? district. His book, Historic American Towns Along the Atlantic Coast (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), discusses in detail nine representative coastal towns and covers two hundred others. Winner of the Steedman Prize in architecture, he has worked in the offices of Jose Luis Sert and Hugh Newell Jacobsen, served as an Associate Dean in the School of Architecture, taught at the Bartlett School, University College London, been recognized by the Washington University School of Architecture in St. Louis with a Distinguished Alumni Award, and in 2002 was the Thomas Jefferson Visiting Fellow, Downing College, Cambridge University, England. He is currently investigating the character of college towns.