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| | 9/9/03, Chair of Architecture: Dr. Mertins - Almanac, Vol. 50, No. 3 |
 | | Detlef Mertins, an architect, historian and critic known for his reinterpretations of modernism, was appointed chair of the department of architecture and professor of architecture in the School of Design effective July 1. |
 | | Mertins practiced architecture and urban design for nine years with Baird/Sampson, Jones and Kirkland and on his own, and in 1996 he completed his doctorate at Princeton University with the dissertation, Transparencies Yet to Come: Sigfried Giedion and the Prehistory of Architectural Modernity. |
 | | Mertins came to Penn from the University of Toronto, where he received his bachelor of architecture degree in 1980, and has taught in that faculty of architecture, landscape and design since 1991, and held a Canada Research Chair in Architecture since 2001. |
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