Histories of Architecture Education in the United States

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.

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.

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. R4. 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 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 Women's 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