| Title |
A Study on the Characteristics of the Early Period of the Collegiate Education in Architecture in the United States : Case of Architecture Course , 18 |
| Abstract |
This study is about the characteristics found in the Early Period of architectural education at M.I.T.. M.I.T. was influenced from the first by the principles and methods of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Beaux-Arts modified to the American conditions of the Period. While devising a course of architectural study, W.B. Rogers and W. Ware carefully considered practical, scientific and artistic aspects and adjusted them to the American context. Through the considerable efforts of Were and his successors, the school early developed a well-balanced progressive program. The long struggle to adapt an individual project method into an academic setting which resulted the complex character to the American curriculum when compared to that of Ecole des Beaux-Atrs. In this process, M.I.T. established the general parrern of architectural education in the US. The schools of the Early Period were experimental and entierly the reflection of current conditions throughout the profession of architecture in the US |