Ann Bergren
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Ann Bergren | |
|---|---|
| Born | 7 October 1942 Lincoln |
| Died | 10 May 2018 (aged 75) Venice |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics; Architecture |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles; Southern California Institute of Architecture |
Ann Bergren (7 October 1942 – 10 May 2018)[1] was Professor of Greek literature, Literary Theory, and Contemporary Architecture at University of California, Los Angeles.[2][3] She is known for her scholarship on Ancient Greek language, gender, and contemporary architecture.
Bergren completed her PhD 'The poetics of a formulaic process: etymology and usage of PEIRAR in Homer and archaic poetry' at Harvard University in 1973 under the supervision of Gregory Nagy.[4][5] Her dissertation was published as a book by the American Philological Association in 1975.[6] From 1979 she was a member of the department of Classics at UCLA, and she was the first woman in the department to be awarded tenure.[7]
She also developed an interest in architecture, and in 1999 earned a master's in architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.[7] She was a faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.[8]
A collection of her essays was published by the Center for Hellenic Studies in 2008.[2][9][10]
She frequently taught in the summer program at B.A.S.E (Beijing Architectural Studio Enterprise) in the Caochangdi District, Beijing.[7]
She gave a series of lectures on her project on the Liu Garden in Suzhou at the distinguished China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China; she came in response to an invitation from Pritzker Award-winning architect Wang Shu.[7]
Awards and fellowships
Bergren was awarded the Society for Classical Studies Awards for Excellence in Collegiate Teaching in 1988.[11] In the same year she also received a UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award.[12] She was a fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. in 1976-77.[5][13]
She also commissioned prizewinning architecture: an extension to her home designed by Morphosis Architects constructed in 1986 won the 1986 National AIA Honor Award and the 1985 Los Angeles AIA Merit Award.[14]
