William L. MacDonald


William Lloyd MacDonald was the Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art at Smith College, noted for his research and publications on the architecture of the Roman Empire and its influence on European architecture.

Academic career

Early in his career, MacDonald taught at Wheaton College and Yale University. He joined Smith College in 1965, and was appointed Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art in 1974.

Publications

MacDonald's Architecture of the Roman Empire II was awarded the Society of Architectural Historians' Alice Davis Hitchcock Award in 1986 and M.I.T.'s Kevin Lynch Award in 1989.
MacDonald's Architecture of the Roman Empire I, reissued in 1982, is a standard undergraduate text on that topic.