Richard Wittman

Richard Wittman is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on architecture, cultural history, and print culture in early modern Europe. He authored the seminal study Architecture, Print Culture, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth Century France (2007) and is currently completing a cultural history of the reconstruction of the Early Christian basilica of San Paolo fuori le mura in Rome (1825-1933). He served as a visiting scholar at The Printed & Built project in Spring 2016.

His work bridges architectural history with broader cultural studies, emphasizing the intersection of material culture and intellectual movements. No awards or grants are explicitly listed in the provided texts.