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The first comprehensive history of architecture education in North America, offering a chronological overview and a topical lexicon.

Rooted in the British apprenticeship system, the French Beaux-Arts, and the German polytechnical schools, architecture education in North America has had a unique history spanning almost three hundred years. Although architects in the United States and Canada began to identify themselves as professionals by the late eighteenth century, it was not until nearly a century later that North American universities began to offer formal architectural training; the first program was established at MIT in 1865. Today most architects receive their training within an academic setting that draws on the humanities, fine arts, applied science, and public service for its philosophy and methodology. This book, published in conjunction with the centennial of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), provides the first comprehensive history of North American architecture education.

Architecture School opens with six chronological essays, each devoted to a major period of development: before 1860; 1860-1920; 1920-1940; 1940-1968; 1968-1990; and 1990 to the present. This overview is followed by a "lexicon" containing shorter articles on more than two dozen topics that have figured centrally in archictecture education's history, from competitions and design pedagogy to research, structures, studio culture, and travel.

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This book marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture in Washington, D.C. Editor Ockman's (architecture, emerita, Columbia Univ.; Architecture Culture 1943-1968) trenchant accounts of the vicissitudes of American architectural education over the past 50 years have dominated the field for decades. The essays are fascinating, the authors well known, and the content relevant to architectural historians, authors, writers, critics, and students. The subtitle is misleading in citing architectural education in all of North America over three centuries; the book seriously addresses architectural education only in the United States over the last 150 years. (Only one short chapter by Dell Upton covers private architectural practice before 1860.) Unfortunately, the text font sizes used are small and difficult to read; they do the wealth of the content a disservice. VERDICT Ockman does a wonderful job, but this book's audience will be limited to those involved with architecture and architectural education, a serious few. Best for architecture schools and educators, as well as any library with an extensive collection in architecture.-Peter S. Kaufman, formerly with Boston Architectural Coll. (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Joan Ockman is an architecture educator, historian, writer, and editor. Among the books she has edited are Architecture Culture 1943-1968 , The Pragmatist Imagination , and Out of Ground Zero .