Goss, Peter L.

Professor of architecture, University of Utah.

From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122393684

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was an American photographer, war correspondent and author. Among her notable achievements, she was the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet Industry, the first female war correspondent, and the first female photographer for Life magazine. Her papers are deposited at Syracuse University Library's Special Collections Research Center.

Peter L. Goss is a graduate of Syracuse University, a professor emeritus of architectural history at the University of Utah and a documentary photographer. In 1966 Goss was a graduate student and chairman of VISAGE, a student photography group responsible for organizing and mounting the exhibit to which this collection relates.

From the guide to the Peter L. Goss Collection on Margaret Bourke-White, 1966, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)

Peter L. Goss, Ph.D. was a professor of architectural history and a documentary photographer as well as Associate Vice President for Scholarly and Creative Activities. His areas of research and teaching included the Arts and Crafts Movement, the Prairie School architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, American suburbia, Utah architecture and the vernacular architecture of the American west. Prof. Goss has written numerous articles on Utah architecture and co-authored, with Prof. Thomas Carter, the book Utah's Historic Architecture, 1847-1940 . His current research involves the documentation of the range sheep industry and its architecture in the intermountain west.

He has been a Fulbright Research Scholar to Romania where he studied and documented the vernacular architecture of various ethnic groups. He has served on the board of the Society of Architectural Historian and as chair of the Utah State Board of History. Prof. Goss has a B. A. in English from Fairfield University, a Master's in Library Science from Syracuse University and Ph. D. in Comparative Arts from Ohio University. His dissertation topic involved the architecture and design of Olana, home of Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church. He retired from the University of Utah School of Architecture in 2009.

From the guide to the Peter L. Goss papers, 1855-2009, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah)

Peter L. Goss, Ph.D. (b. 1943) is a professor of architectural history and associate vice president for scholarly and creative activities at the University of Utah. His specialties include the Arts and Crafts Movement, American Suburbia, Utah architecture, the vernacular architecture of the American West, and the Prairie School architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, which was popularized in Utah in part by Wright's associate, Utah architect Taylor Woolley.

Norman Hill was an engineer who worked with Wright and Woolley.

From the guide to the Peter Goss interview with Norman Hill audio recording, 1983 May 10, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah)