October 1, 2004

Professor at New School U. Resigns

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD

A fine-arts professor at the New School University's Parsons School of Design has resigned after admitting that he had copied sections of one of his books from a monograph by a professor at the University of Washington.

In his 2002 book, Structures of Our Time: 31 Buildings That Changed Modern Life (McGraw-Hill), Roger Shepherd copied portions of Pietro Belluschi: Modern American Architect (MIT Press, 1995), by Meredith L. Clausen, an architectural-history professor at