Robin Middleton studied architecture at the University of
Witwatersrand, Viollet-le-Duc, and the rational Gothic tradition at
Cambridge University. He was head of general studies at the
Architectural Association, London, and librarian and lecturer in the
Faculty of Architecture and Art History at Cambridge University from
1972 to 1987. He joined the Columbia faculty in 1987. The focus of his
studies has been French and English architecture of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries.
