Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1958 to 1961). In the USA he was Focillon Fellow and visiting Lecturer at Yale University in 1949, and in 1962 he obtained a chair in the History of Art at the University of California at Berkeley, spending a great deal of his time building the department's collection of slides and photographs. He retired from Berkeley in 1980. In France he lectured briefly in the History of Art at the University of Lille (1961-1962), and in 1978 he was Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University in Canberra. After his retirement he held the following positions: 1982: Kress Professorship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art 1983: Visiting Mellon Professor at the University of Pittsburgh 1984-1987: Meadows Professor at Southern Methodist University 1988: Getty Lecturer at the University of Southern California A member of the formalist tradition, Bony was the first historian to rigorously describe the structure of the “thick hollow wall”, the starting point of a general history of the constitution of the Gothic style in architecture where Norman works play a key role. Awards and recognitions Honorary MA from Cambridge in 1958 Elected a Fellow of St John's College Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981 Winner of the Haskins Gold Medal of the Medieval Academy of America, linked to the publication of his book, The English Decorated Style (1979) Awarded the gold medal of the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco in 1984, linked to the publication of his book French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries (1983) Elected Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy Vice-President of the Royal Archaeological Institute (Great Britain), 1955-1961 Received a Distinguished Teaching Award in 1975 First recipient of the Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award of the University of California in 1983 Memberships Bony was a member of the following professional societies: Société Française d'Archéologie Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France British Archaeological Association College Art Association Society of Architectural Historians Selected publications La technique normande du mur épais à l’époque romane, Paris: Société Française d’Archéologie, 1939. Notre-Dame de Mantes, Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1947. French influences on the origins of English Gothic architecture, Worcester, London: Trinity Press, 1949. French Cathedrals (with Martin Hurlimann and Peter Meyer), London: Thames and Hudson,