Beloved historian, urbanist and teacher Allan Ceen, PhD

Allan Ceen, PhD (1937-2024)

Allan, you were inspiring to we your students -- you gave us so much and with such passion. I was in your graphics class in 1973 in the tower atop the Villa at (A)OSR. You remained a friend and mentor over the decades that followed. So many of us kept in touch, visited you at your Studium Urbis, and were especially fortunate to walk with you and see and learn the history and evolution of our beloved city Rome. Streets I'd walked daily got new life. You revealed the forces that formed and changed them and why today they're laid out as they are. You railed at the shortsightedness of the city administrators and even wrote a book (one of several, all thoroughly researched and wise) -- "Roma Ingombrata" -- about that. Even the benighted Board at OSR did not escape your wrath. Yet in all these diatribes you never lost civility and even humor. What an example you set! And we your devoted graphics students will never forget to roll our pencils. Rest in peace, professore caro.

-- Dan Keller 11/2024

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