Conrad Kent

Conrad Kent is a historian specializing in Catalan and Spanish cultural history, photography, architecture, and public spaces. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and is a Professor Emeritus of Modern Foreign Languages and Humanities/Classics at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Conrad Kent has authored several significant studies, including works on Park Güell and El Capricho, Claudio López and Eusebio Güell, Joan Grau’s Astorga palace, Gaudí’s medievalism, and the public spaces of Barcelona. Together with Dennis Prindle, he authored “Park Güell” in English with the Princeton Architectural Press and in Spanish with Hermann Blume. He also wrote “Castilla y León en los fondos fotográficos del Institut Amatller” and other studies that explore the relationship between Catalonia and Castile and León.