Dietrich NeumannDietrich Neumann (born 1956) is the Christopher Chan and Michelle Ma Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and former Director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Culural Heritage. Trained as an architect and historian in Munich and London, he has held visiting professorships at Yale University, the University of Porto and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on building types and materials, architectural illumination, film sets, and the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. He is the co-author of the section on Providence in the Architectural Guide New England. Read More Read Less