Andrew Tallon
Andrew Tallon joined the Vassar faculty in 2007 and teaches medieval art and architecture. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University with distinction, M.A. from the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne), and B.A. from Princeton University, summa cum laude. His current research interests include architectural structure, medieval acoustics, the culture of building restoration in nineteenth-century France, and the virtual representation of architectural space. He has published articles on Gothic flying buttresses and on the reconstruction of Lisbon after the earthquake of 1755, and is preparing a book on the early-Gothic structural revolution. He has also begun a new study, supported by the Samuel Kress Foundation, of the architecture of Bourges Cathedral, and was recently awarded a three-year research grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation for a project entitled
Mapping Gothic France. Tallon is co-founder and associate director of the Vassar-Columbia Field School in Medieval Architecture, which is held in Besson (Allier), France for one month each year.