INFLUENTIAL ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN VINCENT SCULLY
TO PRESENT SERIES OF LECTURES HERE AS 
THOMAS JEFFERSON VISITING PROFESSOR

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 17 -- Vincent Scully, one of the
country's most distinguished architectural historians and the
1995-96 Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Visiting Professor at
the University of Virginia School of Architecture, will present a
series of public lectures at U.Va. Feb. 26, Feb. 27, Feb. 29 and
March 1 during a week-long visit here.
	Scully, who is the Sterling Professor Emeritus of the
History of Art at Yale University, has been described as one of the
country's most influential teachers and scholars for his role in
linking art and architecture in a vital dialogue.
	His opening lecture, "The Architecture of Community," will
be held at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 26, in Old Cabell Hall Auditorium.
	On Feb. 27, Feb. 29 and March 1 he will lecture at 5:30 p.m.
in Campbell Hall 153 at the School of Architecture.  His topics are,
respectively, "The Sacred Mountain," "French Gardens: The Art of
Portraiture," and "French Gardens: Fortifications and Modern
Urbanism."
	For more than 40 years Scully's classes at Yale were
legendary because of his ability to transmit feeling and empathy for
the man-made world as well its intellectual and formal elements.
	He has written widely and influentially on subjects ranging
from the classical world to native American architecture to issues
of contemporary architecture and design.  His most recent book is
"Architecture of the Natural and the Man-made."
	In 1982 Scully received the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Foundation Medal in Architecture, U.Va.'s annual prestigious honor
for contributions to architecture.  Support for both that award and
the visiting professorship comes from the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Foundation, which owns and operates Monticello.
	For additional information please call the School of
Architecture at (804) 924-3715.
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February 16, 1996