Stultz gathered the student and faculty recommendations for Neumann's nomination. This is Neumann's third major teaching award since joining the Brown faculty six years ago. He won the John Rowe Workman Award in 1993 and the Barrett Hazeltine Citation in 1994. Neumann's students are equally enthusiastic. Kline notes that after almost every lecture the entire class of 300 students would applaud and oftentimes give him a standing ovation.
Students usually reserve that kind of response for a professor's final lecture of the year.
Before coming to Brown, Neumann studied architecture in Munich and London and taught at the Technical University in Munich, where he received his Ph.D. in architectural history. The title of his first book, not surprisingly, was German Skyscrapers of the 1920s. Neumann has also edited and co-written the exhibition catalog for this show. His next project will be a resource book for architectural research in Rhode Island, which grew out of a research project he conducted with graduate students in art history.