Michael Davis

Michael Davis, Professor

Room 206 (413) 538-2474 mtdavis@mtholyoke.edu
Michael T. Davis, educated at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, teaches the art and architecture of the Middle Ages, the history of modern architecture, and the arts of Islam. He is also the chair of the Medieval Studies program and has taught a course on the art, literature, and politics of fourteenth -century Paris in collaboration with Professor Margaret Switten of the French Department. Michael Davis has published on Altenberg Abbey, the Cathedral of Limoges, Saint-Urbain in Troyes, and Notre-Dame, Paris. He is writing a book on the work of Jean Deschamps, master mason of the Cathedral of Clermont, a study that will embrace ecclesiastical architecture in Paris and the French royal domain from 1230 to 1300.
Professor Davis's current research is focused on French Gothic architecture of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.Using computers to analyze buildings and original drawings, he is investigating strategies of medieval architectural planning and design. This work seeks to understand Gothic structures as human products, the results of the dynamic interaction of traditional craft training and the inventive decisions of individual masters.

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*Michael Davis, Professor*
Room 206	(413) 538-2474	mtdavis@mtholyoke.edu

	Michael T. Davis, educated at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, teaches the art and architecture of the Middle Ages, the history of modern architecture, and the arts of Islam.
	He is also the chair of the Medieval Studies program and has taught a course on the art, literature, and politics of fourteenth -century Paris in collaboration with Professor Margaret Switten of the French Department.

	Professor Davis's current research is focused on French Gothic architecture of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.Using computers to analyze buildings and original drawings, he is investigating strategies of medieval
architectural planning and design. This work seeks to understand Gothic structures as human products, the results of the dynamic interaction of traditional craft training and the inventive decisions of individual masters.