Joseph Connors

Joseph James Connors (born February 5, 1945, in

Connors’ research centers on the architecture of seventeenth-century Rome and in particular on the genial, enigmatic figure of Francesco Borromini (1599–1667). He has also written on town planning in Rome from the late Renaissance to the eighteenth century, pioneering a view of urban change generated around large and long-lived institutions.

Connors served as director of the American Academy in Rome in 1988-92 and of Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, from 2002 to 2010. To date he is the only person to have directed both of the major American research institutes in Italy.

He has held fellowships from the

Connors married Françoise Gabrielle Germaine Moison in 1969 in Gagny, France; they have two children, Geneviève (b. 1975) and Thomas (b. 1978).

Works

• Borromini and the Roman Oratory: Style and Society, 1980,
  ISBN 978-0262030717
• The Robie House of Frank Lloyd Wright, 1984,
  ISBN 978-0226115429
• Specchio di Roma barocca: Una guida inedita del XVII secolo, 1991,
  ISBN 978-8871760070
• Alleanze e inimicizie: L'urbanistica di Roma barocca, 2005,
  ISBN 978-8842077183
• Piranesi and the Campus Martius: The Missing Corso, 2011,
  ISBN 978-8816411401
• Bernard Berenson: Formation and Heritage, with Louis Waldman, 2014,
  ISBN 9780674427853

External links

• The New York Review of Books profile
• Dictionary of Art Historians profile
• Harvard University Faculty Website