Thomas L. Schumacher, FAAR

Thomas L. Schumacher was born in the Bronx, NY, in 1941. After public schooling in New York, he attended Cornell University, receiving the degrees of Bachelor of Architecture (1963) and Master of Architecture (1966). At Cornell he studied with historian and theorist Colin Rowe. He was awarded the Rome Prize in Architecture in 1967, and spent two years at the American Academy in Rome. Returning to the US, he worked in the studio of I.M. Pei and Partners in New York, and then at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.

Professor Schumacher began full-time teaching in 1972 at Princeton University. In 1978 he moved to the University of Virginia, and, since 1984 has taught at the University of Maryland, where he is Professor of Architecture. His visiting professorships include Syracuse University in Florence, Italy; the Istituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice, Italy; the University of Illinois at Chicago; the University of Michigan; Temple University; Lehigh University; the Catholic University of America, and the Maryland Institute College of Art. He has lectured widely in the US and Europe. 

Professor Schumacher's writings have appeared in various architectural journals and magazines, among them: Architectural Design, The Architectural Review, Oppositions, The Journal of Architectural Education, Casabella, Parametro, The Cornell Journal of Architecture, Harvard Design Magazine, The Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Oz, and The Harvard Architecture Review. His books include Terragni's Danteum: Architecture, Poetics, and Politics under Italian Fascism, 1985, and currently in print in a 2004 paperback edition. Surface and Symbol, Giuseppe Terragni and the Architecture of Italian Rationalism, appeared in 1991.

Professor Schumacher teached various architectural design studios as well as history courses in Renaissance, Modern and Contemporary Architecture, as well as a theory seminar in Façade design.