Dietrich Neumann was trained as an architect in Munich, Germany and in London at the Architectural Association, received his Ph.D. in architectural history from the University of Munich and came to Brown University in 1989. In his lecture courses he covers aspects of 19th and 20th Century architecture as well as the history of movie set design. His graduate and undergraduate seminars cover a wide and constantly expanding range of topics. Among his publications are a book on the German skyscraper movement in 1995, the title "Film Architecture: Set Design from Metropolis to Blade Runner" in1996, which served as the catalogue to an international traveling exhibition of the same name, and "Architecture of the Night" in 2002, which traces the history of architectural illumination and currently serves as the basis for a major exhibition to open at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart in June 2006. Dietrich Neumann has frequently published essays on European and American architecture of the early 20th century. His essay "'The Century's Triumph in Lighting': The Luxfer Prism Companies and their Contribution to Early Modern Architecture" won the Founder's Award and Ann van Zanten Medal of the Society of Architectural Historians in 1996. In 1999 he published a children's book, called "Joe and the Skyscraper" and in 20001 he was the chief curator and editor of the accompanying catalogue for an exhibition about Richard Neutra's Windshield House on Fishers Island, NY, which opened at Harvard University's Sackler Museum in November 2001 and then traveled to museums in Providence, Washington and Pittsburgh in 2002/2003. The exhibition won first prize for an architecture exhibition outside of New York City from the International Association of Art Critics, Boston and the catalogue was awarded the Philip Johnson Award by the Society of Architectural Historians in Chicago. In the spring of 2004, Dietrich Neumann organized and curated an exhibition at Brown University's Bell Gallery about unbuilt projects for the city of Providence, and for Brown University. Dietrich Neumann was named Rhode Island Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation in 1995, and won Teaching Awards at Brown University in 1993, 1994 and 1999. He was a visiting professor at the Yale School of Architecture in 2000 and a visiting scholar at the Centre Canadien d'Architecture in Montreal in 2001. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 2002 and has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians from 1998-2002 and again since 2004 (currently as second vice president). At the moment he is finishing a book on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for Phaidon Press in London.