More than a handsome box : education in architecture at the University of Michigan, 1876-1986 / Nancy Ruth Bartlett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bartlett, Nancy.

Contributor:

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

University of Michigan. College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Michigan--Planning--History.

University of Michigan.

University of Michigan. College of Architecture and Urban Planning--History.

University of Michigan. College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Architecture--Study and teaching--Michigan--Ann Arbor.

Architecture.

Architecture--Study and teaching.

History.

Planning.

Michigan--Ann Arbor.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Venturi, Robert; Brown, Denise Scott

Physical Description:

143 pages : illustrations, portraits, charts, photographs ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Education in architecture at the University of Michigan, 1876- 1986

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 1995.

Summary:

From the preface: The education of architects at the University of Michigan has a long and distinguished history. This publication is intended to celebrate that tradition and place architectural education at this institution in a broader cultural, political, and academic perspective.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Most proper associate and guide for young men/nineteenth century prelude

I am most desirous of going to Ann Arbor/1906-1919

Supplying the missing element of sanity/1920-1936

Still uncertain but less confused/1937-1964

More than a handsome box/1964-1986.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-140).

Image citations: pages 141-143.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

Other Format:

Online version: Bartlett, Nancy. More than a handsome box.

ISBN:

0961479221

9780961479220

OCLC:

34068838