Sidney K Robinson

Sidney K. Robinson is an educator, author, and architect whose lifelong fascination with Frank Lloyd Wright began as a ten-year-old perusing his architect father's Wendingen publication on Wright and by reading his Autobiography in high school.Interest in Wright led him to work for Alden Dow after graduating from Columbia University School of Architecture some four decades after Dow. Robinson returned to his hometown of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan for a doctorate in architectural...See more

Sidney K. Robinson is an educator, author, and architect whose lifelong fascination with Frank Lloyd Wright began as a ten-year-old perusing his architect father's Wendingen publication on Wright and by reading his Autobiography in high school.Interest in Wright led him to work for Alden Dow after graduating from Columbia University School of Architecture some four decades after Dow. Robinson returned to his hometown of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan for a doctorate in architectural history with a dissertation on Taliesin and Alden Dow's Studio.Robinson taught at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture for more than ten years until it ceased operations at Taliesin. He also taught design, history, and theory at Iowa State University and the University of Illinois at Chicago with visiting positions at the University of Michigan and Carleton College.Robinson has written books and articles on Wright, Dow, Bruce Goff (whose 1950 Ford House he has lived in for more than 35 years), the Picturesque, and historical preservation. See less