Stephen Tobriner
Stephen Tobriner is a Professor of Architectural History in the Architecture Department at the University of California Berkeley where he has taught for thirty-five years. He was trained as a scholar in Baroque and Mesoamerican architecture and cities at Harvard, where he published a significant paper on the planning of ancient Teotihuacan. He wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the planning and architecture of Noto, a small Sicilian city rebuilt after an earthquake in 1693. His book, The Genesis of Noto, an 18th Century Sicilian City (Zwemmer Press: London and U.C. Press: Berkeley) appeared in 1982 and was republished in Italian as La genesi di Noto, una cittą italiana del Settecento (Dedalo: Bari) in 1989. In the 1980s Tobriner became fascinated by the politics, psychology, sociology, and technology of earthquake-resistant engineering. He has written extensively on architecture and cities in Sicily and the history of reconstruction after earthquakes in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. He has lectured throughout the United States and Italy, and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Palermo. He has investigated damage in contemporary earthquakes around the world as a member of teams sponsored by the United Nations, the National Science Foundation, the Earthquake Engineering Research Center, and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. His book, Bracing for Disaster; Earthquake-Resistant Architecture and Engineering in San Francisco, 1838-1933 (Berkeley: The Bancroft Library and Heyday Press) is scheduled to appear in March, 2006.
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