ABSTRACT
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 architect’s 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|55 pages
Institutions
chapter 1|19 pages
The Philadelphia Way of Making Architects
part 2|84 pages
Counter-Institutions
chapter 5|11 pages
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
chapter 6|10 pages
Between Colonial Nostalgia and Modern Aspirations
chapter 8|20 pages
A Postmodern School of Architecture
chapter 9|14 pages
Signs and Wonders
part 3|69 pages
Constituting the Discipline, Pushing Its Boundaries
chapter 11|11 pages
Cultivating the Sense of Beauty
chapter 12|11 pages
From Constancy to Change
chapter 13|12 pages
The Question of Humanism
part 4|60 pages
Architecture Goes Beyond Itself