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Architecture--art or profession? : three hundred years of architectural education in Britain

Title
Architecture--art or profession? : three hundred years of architectural education in Britain / Mark Crinson & Jules Lubbock.
Author
Crinson, Mark.
Publication
Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Lubbock, Jules.
  • Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture.
Description
xii, 210 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  • Architects are perhaps the most important people involved in shaping the built environment, so the ideas they receive in the course of their training are a major influence upon the buildings and cities of the future. Crinson and Lubbock present a bold new perspective on the evolution of the British architect from Wren to post-modernism and beyond, and provide the first general history of architectural education, making an important contribution to current debates.
  • The Prince of Wales' views on modern architecture and the need for a change in the way architects are trained, has attracted enormous support from the public, resulting in architects and their training being under the spotlight more than ever. The drive to define and promote the architectural profession that began in the eighteenth century and reached its apogee in the 1960s has now begun to unravel. How has this happened? What relation does an architect's education have to the built environment?
  • What lessons are there from the past? This book will be of interest to students, lecturers and all those interested in the debates around contemporary architecture.
Subject
Architecture > Study and teaching > Great Britain
Note
  • "The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-201) and index.
Contents
1. From Wren's lodge to the neoclassical academy, 1660-1830 -- 2. The design of professionalism and its resistance, 1834-1938 -- 3. The modernist academy, 1938-60 -- 4. The triumph of the paradigm -- Appendix: Changes in the RIBA examination syllabus.
ISBN
  • 0719041716 (hardback)
  • 0719041724 (pbk.)
LCCN
93049014
OCLC
  • 29635007
  • ocm29635007
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries