Gwendolyn Wright, Janet Parks (Editors)
The History of History in American Schools of Architecture, 1865 - 1975.
The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and Princeton Architectural Press, 1990. Buell Center Books in American Architectural History, 1. First printing. 1878271024 191 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 7.25" x 10.25", shows sunning to spine and top edge of front cover. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages.
"This volume documents the exhibition inaugurating the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, "The History of History in American Schools of Architecture," held at Columbia University from September 17, 1990 to November 3, 1990.
Contents:
"History for Architects" by Gwendolyn Wright;
Reflections on Ware, Hamlin, McKim, and the Politics of History on the Cusp of Historicism" by Richard Plunz;
"Tempering the Ecole: Nathan Ricker at the University of Illinois and Langford Warren at Harvard" by Anthony Alofsin;
"From Bauhaus to Harvard: Walter Gropius and the Use of History" by Winfried Nerdinger;
"Aphorisms, Axioms & Anonymous Heroes: The History of Architecture in Mies's Curriculum at the Illinois Institute of Technology" by Kevin Harrington;
Orientation and Invention: History of Architecture at Cornell" by Christian F. Otto;
"The Shape of Time at Yale, circa 1960" by Spiro Kostof.
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