"Histories of Architecture Education in the United States is an edited collection focused on the professional evolution, experimental and enduring pedagogical approaches, and leading institutions of American architectural education. Beginning with the emergence of architecture as a profession in Philadelphia and ending with the early work, but unfinished international effort, of making room for women and people of color in positions of leadership in the field, this collection offers an important history of architecture education relevant to audiences both within and outside of the United States. Other themes include the relationship of professional organizations to educational institutions; the legacy of late nineteenth-century design concepts; the role of architectural history; educational changes and trans-Atlantic intellectual exchanges after WWII and the Cold War; the rise of the city and urban design in the architect's consciousness; student protests and challenges to traditional architectural education; and the controversial appearance of environmental activism. This collection, in other words, provides a relevant history of the present, with topics of concern to all architects studying and working today"--
This book is an edited collection focused on the professional evolution, experimental and enduring pedagogical approaches, and leading institutions of American architectural education. It provides a relevant history of the present, with topics of concern to all architects studying and working today.
Histories of Architecture Education in the United States is an edited collection focused on the professional evolution, experimental and enduring pedagogical approaches, and leading institutions of American architecture education. Beginning with the emergence of architecture as a profession in Philadelphia and ending with the early work, but unfinished international effort, of making room for women and people of color in positions of leadership in the field, this collection offers an important history of architecture education relevant to audiences both within and outside of the United States. Other themes include the relationship of professional organizations to educational institutions; the legacy of late nineteenth-century design concepts; the role of architectural history; educational changes and trans-Atlantic intellectual exchanges after WWII and the Cold War; the rise of the city and urban design in the architects consciousness; student protests and challenges to traditional architecture education; and the controversial appearance of environmental activism. This collection, in other words, provides a relevant history of the present, with topics of concern to all architects studying and working today.
Part 1: Institutions
1. The Philadelphia Way of Making Architects: The
Birth and Birthplace of American Architecture Education
2. The Architect at
Mid-Century: The AIA and Architecture Education, 1857 and 1957
3. Redefining
Romes Lessons: Architects at the American Academy
4. French Connections:
Learning from Penn Part 2: Counter-Institutions
5. Booker T. Washington and
W.E.B. Du Bois: Their Legacies in Architecture Education at Historically
Black Colleges and Universities
6. Between Colonial Nostalgia and Modern
Aspirations: The University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture as a
Pedagogical Experiment
7. Radical Empathy in the Teaching of Bruce Goff and
the American School of Architects
8. A Postmodern School of Architecture:
Education at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies
9. Signs and
Wonders: John Hejduk and the Re-Enchantment of Architecture at The Cooper
Union
10. Feminism and Architecture: The Womens School of Planning and
Architecture Part 3: Constituting the Discipline, Pushing Its Boundaries
11.
Cultivating the Sense of Beauty: Denman Waldo Ross and the Teaching of Pure
Design
12. From Constancy to Change: Sigfried Giedion and the Shifting Role
of History in Architecture Education
13. The Question of Humanism:
Architecture in Service of Life at North Carolina State College, 1948-1952
14. The Politics of the Creative Mind: Educating Architects at M.I.T. after
1945
15. The Oregon Conspiracy: John Reynolds and the Politics of
Environmental Control Part 4: Architecture Goes Beyond Itself
16. The Social
Planning Movement: Architecture and Planning at the University of
Pennsylvania
17. The School and the City: Urban Design at Cornell in the
1960s and 70s
18. Architecture Education as a Social Art: Social Science at
the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
19. Toppling the Cinderblock
in the Sky: Negative Architecture Education at Columbia University in the
1960s
20. From Student to Educator: The Personal Letters and Critical
Discourse of Denise Scott Brown
Peter L. Laurence is Associate Professor of Architecture at the Clemson University School of Architecture, where he teaches architectural history and theory, and architecture and urban design courses. His research focuses on architectural pedagogies, urban design history, architects thinking about the city, and, more broadly, epistemological change in architectural history and theory. He is the author of Becoming Jane Jacobs (Penn Press, 2016), which was supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
