Bosworth, Thomas L. (Thomas Lawrence), 1930-

Bosworth was born and raised in Oberlin, Ohio, where his father and grandfather were ministers and faculty members. Bosworth received his undergraduate degree from Oberlin College, where he studied architectural history with an emphasis on classical architecture and graduated with a B.A. in 1952. He attended Princeton University graduate school studying art and archaeology, but returned to Oberlin after a year and earned his M.A in 1954. After military service, he studied briefly at Harvard University as a Ph.D. student, then entered the four-year professional program in architecture at Yale University, graduating with an M.Arch. in 1960.

Bosworth spent four years working in the office of Eero Saarinen, then joined the faculty at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1964. He headed the Architecture Department beginning in 1966 but left after two years to move to the Pacific Northwest. Bosworth came to Seattle in 1968 to serve as Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, a position he held until 1972; he continued thereafter as a professor of architecture until his retirement about 2003.

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