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Title

The Making of an architect, 1881-1981 : Columbia University in the City of New York

Name

Oliver, Richard, 1942-

Published

Rizzoli: New York. 1981

Physical Description

vii, 263 p. : ill. (some col.), ports., plans : 29 cm.

Subjects

Architecture > Study and teaching > United States.

Architecture and society.

Columbia University. Graduate School of Architecture and Planning History.

Columbia University

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.

Format

books

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