Dalibor Vesely (born 1934) is a Czech architectural theoretician.
Vesely has been influential through his writing and teaching in establishing the role of hermeneutics and phenomenology as part of the discourse of architecture and of architectural design. He has taught some of the current leading architects and architectural historians, such as Daniel Libeskind, Eric Parry, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Mohsen Mostafavi and David Leatherbarrow. He has taught at the University of Essex, at the Architectural Association in London and since 1978 at the University of Cambridge, where he also started an M.Phil. programme in History and Philosophy of Architecture with his colleague Peter Carl. Vesely currently teaches Architectural History and Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, and is Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Manchester School of Architecture. In 2005 he was recipient of the CICA Bruno Zevi Book Award granted by the International Committee of Architectural Critics. In 2006 the Royal Institute of British Architects honoured Dalibor Vesely with the Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architectural Education.
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