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Title The Making of an architect, 1881-1981 : Columbia University in the City of New York / edited by Richard Oliver
Published New York : Rizzoli, 1981

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Description vii, 263 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Contents Introduction / James Stewart Polshek -- History I : the founding of the School / Steven M. Bedford -- William R. Ware and the pursuit of suitability, 1881-1903 / David G. DeLong -- History II, 1881-1912 / Steven M. Bedford and Susan M. Strauss -- Apropos 1900 : New York and the metropolitan ideal / Robert A.M. Stern and Gregory Gilmartin -- History III, 1912-1933 / Susan M. Strauss -- Modernism rears its head, the Twenties and the Thirties / Rosemarie Haag Bletter -- History IV, 1933-1935 / Judith Oberlander -- In search of an order to the American city, 1893-1945 / M. Christine Boyer -- History V, 1935-1959 / Diane Boas -- Slouching towards modernity : Talbot Faulkner Hamlin and the architecture of the New Deal / Kenneth Frampton -- History VI, 1959-1968 / Richard Oliver -- Anatomy of insurrection / Marta Gutman and Richard Plunz -- Alumni works -- A short history of Historic Preservation at Columbia University / James Marston Fitch -- History VII, 1968-1981 / Susan M. Strauss
Summary The Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, established at Columbia University in the City of New York in 1881, is the fourth oldest professional course in architecture in the United States. Throughout its first century of existence the School has played a distinguished role in the development of architectural education in America, and its alumni and faculty have made important contributions to the development of American cities. In return, the School has always enjoyed the special advantages of its location inthe pre-eminent American metropolis, New York City. -- from book jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Columbia University. Graduate School of Architecture and Planning.
Architecture -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York.
Architecture -- Study and teaching -- United States.
Schools of architecture -- United States.
Universities and colleges -- New York (State) -- History.
Author Oliver, Richard, 1942-
LC no. 81051717
ISBN 084780416X