JAMES D. KORNWOLF

James D. Kornwolf, 69, an internationally-known architectural historian who taught at the College of William & Mary for 34 years, died in his home on Dec. 24, 2005.

Professor Kornwolf was the author of many articles, reviews and books, including two exhibition catalogs, "So Good a Design - The Colonial Campus of the College of William & Mary: Its Background, History and Legacy" (1989) and "Modernism in America" 1937-1941 (1985) which focused attention on Virginia's role in architectural developments within a wide European/American context during Colonial and Modern times. His "Guide to the Buildings of Surry and the American Revolution" (1976) will be republished next year. His three-volume "Architecture and Town Planning in North America" (2002) received a best-book award for 2002 from the American Association of Publishers.

At the time of his death, he was working on a study of architecture and town planning in Colonial Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. In the classroom, Professor Kornwolf was renown for his passionately delivered lectures in courses that ranged over the history of art from prehistoric cave paintings to the latest in Postmodernist architecture.

A graduate of the University of Illinois, Urbana, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Professor Kornwolf received a Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute, University of London. His M.H. Baille Scott and the Arts and Crafts Movement (1972), based on his Ph.D. dissertation, remains the fundamental work on its subject.