The Philadelphia Way of Making Architects

This chapter, by Michael Lewis, provides a history of architecture education in the United States between colonial America and the mid-twentieth century. Focused on Philadelphia, the essay documents the emergence of trade-oriented drawing schools, polytechnic programs, and collegiate ateliers, and the distinctions and rivalries between them. While painting a portrait of architecture education in Philadelphia, it is one that represents the diversity of pedagogical approaches that defined architecture education in the United States, at least in the past.