Richard Ingersoll

Richard Ingersoll was born near San Francisco in 1949 but has spent half of his life in Italy. He earned a Ph.D. in architectural history at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985. 

Ingersoll served as the editor-in-chief of Design Book Review from 1983 to 1998, and taught at Rice University as an associate professor from 1986 to 1997. Ingersoll left Rice to return to Tuscany, where he taught at Syracuse University's Florence architecture program.

Richard Ingersoll died at the age of 72 in Spain following complications from a femur fracture, which led to complications with COVID-19.