That was the year MacDonald's second book, the highly influential first volume of his The Architecture of the Roman Empire, was published.
[1] He landed at Smith College, where in 1974 he was named the Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art.
The publications of which MacDonald was most proud were: Architecture of the Roman Empire vol.
I (1965, revised edition 1982) The Pantheon: Design, Meaning, and Progeny (1976) Architecture of the Roman Empire II (1986), awarded the Society of Architectural Historians' Alice Davis Hitchcock Award and M.I.T.
[2] Hadrian's Villa and its Legacy, with John Pinto (1995), awarded the Society of Architectural Historians' Alice Davis Hitchcock Award Other major publications include: