The Education of the Architect Historiography, Urbanism, and the Growth of Architectural Knowledge : Essays Presented to Stanford Anderson on His Sixty-Second Birthday

Part 1 American debates: Frank Lloyd Wright's "The Art and Craft of the Machine" - text and context, Joseph M. Siry Lewis Mumford, Henry-Russell Hitchcock and the bay region style, Gail Fenske modern architectural ideology in Cold War America, Mitchell Schwarzer. Part 2 European responses: educated evolution - Darwinism, design education and American influence in Central Europe, 1898-1918, Akos Moravanszky the Dutch reception of Frank Lloyd Wright - an overview, Maristella Casciato against style - Bruno Taut's pedagogical programme in Turkey, 1936-1938, Sibel Bozdogan. Part 3 Historiographic constructs: meditations on the impossibility of a history of modernity - seeing beyond art's history, Mark Jarzombek the history of Louis Hautecoeur - classical architecture and Vichy politics, Hilary Ballon between formalism and deconstruction - Hans Georg Gadamer's hermeneutics and the aesthetics of reception, Danilo Udovicki-Selb forms of understanding - thematic knowledge and the modernist legacy, N. John Habraken. Part 4 Urbanisms: learning from "Mendicant America" - H.P. Berlage's encounter with the American city, Nancy Stieber surveillance and spectacle in Fascist Ferrara, Diane Yvonne Ghirardo the formation of the neo-Mamluk style in modern Egypt, Nasser Rabbat between tradition and innovation - place Louis XV in Paris, Carlo Olmo. Part 5 Teaching architecture: architecture, ethics and the person, Royston Landau the conditions of criticism, Micha Bandini history's history, Lawrence B. Anderson learning from Ekalavya, Charles Correa.