Phillip Bess, M. Arch, PhD
Professor of Architecture and Department Chair
Philip Bess is a Professor of Architecture and the new Department Chair of the Architecture Program at ¶¶ÒõÂþ». Prof. Bess taught graduate urban design and theory from 2004 to 2014. He has a particular interest in Catholic and classical humanist intellectual and artistic traditions in the context of modern American life and the contemporary culture of architecture and urban design. Professor Bess lectures widely and has published numerous articles and three books. In the Fall of 2011, his graduate urban design studios began a multi-year, multi-award-winning project called After Burnham: The Notre Dame Plan of Chicago 2109, which envisions metropolitan Chicago at the bicentennial of Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago. In 2013-14, Professor Bess was a William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life at Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.