He has lectured on a wide range of subjects related to twentieth century architecture, landscape, and community design in the greater Philadelphia region, to audiences in the United States, Canada, Germany and India. Kahn (Yale University Press, 2013) with George Marcus, the first comprehensive study of the architect’s house designs, and is also a co-editor of Crafting a Modern World: The Architecture and Design of Antonin and Noemi Raymond (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006) with Kurt Helfrich. Whitaker has co-authored: The Houses of Louis I. Most recently he co-curated "Experiments in Environment: The Halprin Workshops, 1966-71" (with Sarah Herda and Ellen Alderman 2014) for the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts as well as "Venturi's Grandmother: Patterns for Production" for the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia (with Kathryn Heisinger & others 2014). He has organized and co-curated over 30 exhibitions, including retrospectives on Antonin and Noemi Raymond (2006), Wharton Esherick (2008), and Anne Griswold Tyng (2011) and served as the director of research for the landmark retrospective, Out of the Ordinary: The Architecture and Design of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown & Associates, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2001, and as curatorial consultant for Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture, a major exhibition of the architect's work organized by the Vitra Design Museum in 2012 currently on world tour with venues in Rotterdam, Oslo, London, Taipei and San Diego. Kahn and landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, as well as that of the husband and wife design team of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. Trained as an architect and architectural historian at the University of New Mexico and the University of Pennsylvania, Whitaker primarily works on documenting and interpreting Penn’s design collections, including holdings related to the of life and work of architect Louis I. William Whitaker is the curator and collections manager of the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design.
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