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 Sally A. Kitt Chappell
Born in Topeka, Kansas, Sally A. Kitt Chappell returned to her native Midwest for graduate school after receiving her B.A. from Smith College in 1950. When she finished her MA at the University of Chicago, she transferred to Northwestern for her PhD in architectural history.
After a career of teaching at DePaul University she resumed her career as a free lance writer. The author of several scholarly books and articles, Chappell has also written travel articles for The New York Times, and published in many periodicals. Currently she is a trustee of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. She and her husband, Walter Kitt, a retired psychiatrist, are parents of four children and four grandchildren.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHICAGO'S URBAN NATURE: A GUIDE TO THE CITY'S ARCHITECTURE + LANDSCAPE, University of Chicago Press, 2007.
CAHOKIA: MIRROR OF THE COSMOS, University of Chicago Press, 2002
ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING OF GRAHAM, ANDERSON, PROBST AND WHITE (1912-1936): TRANSFORMING TRADITION, University of Chicago Press, 1992.
BARRY BYRNE, JOHN LLOYD WRIGHT: ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN, with Ann Van Zanten, Chicago Historical Society,, 1982.
THE BURNHAM PLAN OF CHICAGO: 1909-1979, with Robert Bruegmann and John Zukowsky, Art Institute of Chicago, 1979.
A GUIDE TO THE YALE COLLECTIONS, Yale Art Gallery, 1956.
"The Equitable Building in New York Reconsidered," JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS, March, 1990.
"Urban Ideals and the Design of Railroad Stations," TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE, April, 1989.
"A Place for Everybody,: Burnham's Hierarchical Order" INLAND ARCHITECT, November, 1987.
"As if the Lights Were Always Shining: The Wrigley Building, " CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE, 1872-1922: BIRTH OF A METROPOLIS, ed., John Zukowsky, Prestel Verlag, 1987.
"Picknicking on the Seven Hills of Rome," THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 23, 1988.
"The Influence of the Beaux-Arts on Commercial and Public Architecture in Chicago,'" PROCEEDINGS OF THE COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION, 1972.
"The Architecture of Barry Byrne," PRAIRIE SCHOOL REVIEW, January, 1967.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Winner of Most Outstanding Book in Architecture and Urban Planning Award of the Association of American Publishers, 1992.
Cortelyou-Lowery Award for Excellence in Teaching and Collegiality, 1990.
Sears Roebuck Award for Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership, 1990.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute Grant, 1984.
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Grant, 1982.
Illinois Bicentennial Commission, Grant for Filmstrip on the Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893.
Schwartz Foundation Prize for Originality in Art History, Northwestern University, 1968.
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