Architecture school : three centuries of educating architects in North America / Joan Ockman, editor ; with Rebecca Williamson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ockman, Joan.

Williamson, Rebecca.

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Study and teaching--United States--History.

Architecture.

Architecture--Study and teaching--Canada--History.

Architecture--Study and teaching.

History.

Canada.

United States.

Physical Description:

440 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Three centuries of educating architects in North America

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press ; Washington, D.C. : Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 2012.

Summary:

"Architecture School opens with six chronological essays, each devoted to a major period of development: before 1860; 1860 1920; 1920 1940; 1940 1968; 1968 1990; and 1990 to the present. This overview is followed by a "lexicon" containing shorter articles on more than two dozen topics that have figured centrally in architecture education s history, from competitions and design pedagogy to research, structures, studio culture, and travel"--publisher's website.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Published on the centennial anniversary of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 1912-2012."

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Greenfield fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780262017084

0262017083

OCLC:

748290816