Groth, Paul

Bio Sketch

Paul Groth is an American architectural/cultural landscape historian (UC Berkeley) and a leading figure in vernacular architecture studies, known for his work on the ordinary, everyday built environment and residential architecture.

Key Works

• Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States (1994).
• "Making New Connections in Vernacular Architecture" (1999, JSAH); co-editor of Understanding Ordinary Landscapes (1997).

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• Everyday Architecture
• Flat Ontology
• Authorship

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Groth matters to Geoffrey's everyday & vernacular architecture and historiography & the vernacular areas: his normalization of "ordinary building" as a legitimate object of study, and his social-history methods, complement Agarez & Mota's and Boucsein's recovery of everyday production against the hero-genius myth.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• Making New Connections in Vernacular Architecture