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Historical Research in the Undergraduate Curriculum
There are not many disciplines in which the undergraduate student can make a valid contribution to the stock of recorded fact while deriving educational benefit from the process, but architecture is one of them. The chief means by which the architectural student can do this is the measured drawing, which as a recording device rather than a transmitter of “exemplars” for the eclectic has made a notable comeback in the past ten or twelve years. The revival of the Historic American Buildings Survey has had much to do with this, and so has the National Park Service summer program for students, which was described by Ernest Allen Connally under the title “Preserving the American Tradition” in the AIA Journal for May 1961. Most school programs are undertaken in concert with the HABS. One that has been in operation three years, the HABS Measured Drawing Project at Carnegie Institute of Technology, is described in the May 1962 issue of Charette, the publication of the Pennsylvania Society of Architects, under the title “Project H. H. Richardson,” by James D. Van Trump; in this case the survey is an adjunct to the courses in architectural history but is conducted separately from them. In the following article Vernon Shogren discusses the educational value of such programs and describes the working and the goals of the one, now twelve years old, at North Carolina State—a program of which Matthew Nowicki was an enthusiastic supporter.
Historical Research in the Undergraduate Curriculum
There are not many disciplines in which the undergraduate student can make a valid contribution to the stock of recorded fact while deriving educational benefit from the process, but architecture is one of them. The chief means by which the architectural student can do this is the measured drawing, which as a recording device rather than a transmitter of “exemplars” for the eclectic has made a notable comeback in the past ten or twelve years. The revival of the Historic American Buildings Survey has had much to do with this, and so has the National Park Service summer program for students, which was described by Ernest Allen Connally under the title “Preserving the American Tradition” in the AIA Journal for May 1961. Most school programs are undertaken in concert with the HABS. One that has been in operation three years, the HABS Measured Drawing Project at Carnegie Institute of Technology, is described in the May 1962 issue of Charette, the publication of the Pennsylvania Society of Architects, under the title “Project H. H. Richardson,” by James D. Van Trump; in this case the survey is an adjunct to the courses in architectural history but is conducted separately from them. In the following article Vernon Shogren discusses the educational value of such programs and describes the working and the goals of the one, now twelve years old, at North Carolina State—a program of which Matthew Nowicki was an enthusiastic supporter.
Historical Research in the Undergraduate Curriculum
Shogren, Vernon (author)
Journal of Architectural Education ; 18 ; 27-28
1963-09-01
2 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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