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

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

Mark Crinson and Jules Lubbock

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1994

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Bibliography: p. 193-201

Includes index

The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture -- t.p.

"With a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales" -- on cover

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Description

A study of the evolution of the British architect, from Wren to postmodernism and beyond, providing a general history of architectural education. The authors ask: what relation does an architect's education have to the built environment? and, what lessons are there from the past?

Table of Contents

  • From Wren's lodge to the neoclassical academy, 1660-1830
  • the design of professionalism and its resistance, 1834-1938
  • the Modernist academy, 1938-1960
  • the triumph of the paradigm.

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