Philip Bess
Director of Graduate Studies, School of Architecture
Office: 312 Bond Hall
Phone: 574-631-7739
Email: pbess@nd.edu.
Areas of Expertise
Baseball stadia, urban design and theory
“The intrinsic and self evident goodness of baseball is best when it occurs within the confines of an enclosed park in the city,” writes Bess in his book “City Baseball Magic – Plain Talk and Uncommon Sense about Cities and Baseball Parks.” An expert on urban design and theory, with a particular interest in baseball stadia, he oversees the graduate program in Notre Dame’s School of Architecture and continues to work professionally as a design consultant for municipalities, architects and community development corporations through the office of Thursday Associates. From 1987-88 he was the director and principal designer of the Urban Baseball Park Design Project of the Society for American Baseball Research, and in 2000 he directed and coordinated the ultimately successful “Save Fenway Park!” design charrette in Boston. His other books are “Inland Architecture: Subterranean Essays on Moral Order and Formal Order in Chicago” and “Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred.”
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