ABSTRACT
Autogenic structures conceal their own history. They are produced independently of external influence, and are derived automatically from sources within the same individual. They deflect precedent and chronology and avoid easy categorization within the history of architectural education. The evolution of Evan Douglis' pedagogy in the context of this shift from a historically rooted educational model to a completely autonomous one, functioning as a time capsule. Education for three centuries after Stephen Colbert founded the Academy of Architecture in 1671, architectural pedagogy had been based on the study of the past. Classical rules, and later Modern ones, were largely assimilated through the reproduction of historic monuments of some kind. It was as if the rich world of art and science that had been influencing the profession for centuries, and which the Beaux-Arts educational tradition had succeeded in excluding, suddenly flooded into the world of design pedagogy for the first time.
