The Roman Forum: A Reconstruction and Architectural Guide

About Gilbert J. GorskiJames E. Packer

Gilbert J. Gorski is a licensed architect and the project designer for numerous buildings including the World Headquarters for the McDonald's Corporation in Oak Brook IL and the Oceanarium a major addition to the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. In 1987 he was designated the Burnham Fellow by the Chicago Architectural Club and was awarded an associate fellowship to the American Academy in Rome. Since 1989 Gorski has headed his own firm specializing in design and illustration. His drawings and paintings have been included in numerous publications and exhibits on architecture and illustration. He was twice awarded the Hugh Ferriss Memorial Prize the nation's highest singular honor in architectural illustration by the American Society of Architectural Illustrators. He is also the recipient of an Institute Honor for Collaborative Achievement awarded by the American Institute of Architects. He presently is an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame and holds the James A. and Louise F. Nolen Chair in Architecture. James E. Packer is Emeritus Professor of Classics at Northwestern University. He is the author of the three-volume The Forum of Trajan in Rome (1997); of numerous articles in journals including the American Journal of Archaeology the Journal of Roman Archaeology the Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma the Maryland Historian Natural History Croniche Pompeiane Technology and Culture Curator Inland Architect Archeo and Archaeology; and of articles in collections including the Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae (19932000). He is the recipient of many grants including those from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation the Getty Grant Program the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He has excavated at Pompeii in the Forum of Trajan (Rome) and in the Theater of Pompey (Rome). 'The Forum of Trajan' exhibition at the opening of the new Getty Museum in Los Angeles (1997) was based on Packer's work.