Kim to Serve as President of American Cusanus Society
Il Kim, Associate Professor and Architecture Chair in the Auburn’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, was recently named president of the American Cusanus Society. He will serve a five-year term in the post through 2029.
The Society is devoted to the life, work and writings of Nicholas of Cusa, a Renaissance Christian humanist of the 15th century. During his lifetime from 1401–1464, he had a long career as a papal envoy, cardinal and bishop and wrote more than 200 sermons, as well as several dozen geometrical treatises.
Kim received his bachelor’s in architecture from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and his master’s and Ph.D. in art and architectural history from Columbia University. At Auburn, he teaches both history and design.
A specialist in the field of Renaissance architecture and engineering, Kim’s current research centers on the influence of scientific knowledge and engineering techniques in the development of 15th-century philosophy and theology.
He has also co-edited several books, focusing mainly on contemporary American residential architecture. He is currently working on a book on the intellectual relationship between the architect and theoretician Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas of Cusa.
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