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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture

 Organization

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Collection on Désiré Despradelle

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0695
Scope and Contents

Materials in the Collection on Désiré Despradelle date from 1873 to 1913. The collection comprises an scrapbook (104 pages) including paper items, paper labels and photographs. The collection also includes articles and pamphlets about Despradelle.

Dates: 1873 - 1913

Experimental Music Studio recordings

 Collection
Identifier: AC-0662
Abstract

The Experimental Music Studio recordings is a collection of reel to reel audio tapes produced by students and staff involved with MIT's Experimental Music Studio and with the New England Conservatory. The physical materials in the collection are reel to reel audio tapes in 7” and 10.5” reels, using ¼”, ½”, and 1” tape. Some recordings have been digitized thank to a CLIR Recordings at Risk grant in 2020.

Dates: 1973 - 1988; Majority of material found within 1979 - 1986

Frederick J. Adams papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0307
Scope and Contents

This collection contains personal and professional papers of Frederick J. Adams, a professor of the Department of Architecture, and later the Department of City and Regional Planning at MIT. A small number of reports and administrative records of the MIT Department of City and Regional Planning, 1937-1969, and its successor, the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, are included in the collection.

Dates: 1931 - 1978

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture curricula

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0475
Scope and Contents of the Collection A notable item in this collection is a document of 1866, Outline of a Course of Architectural Instruction, a pamphlet by William R. Ware, the first professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) It discusses early plans for an architecture curriculum in the beginning years of MIT. The curricula collection was assembled from a variety of sources in the MIT Libraries. More complete information about classes in all years...
Dates: 1866 - 1942

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture faculty records

 Collection
Identifier: AC-0411
Scope and Contents

This collection contains faculty records kept by the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Dates: circa 1970-1995

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture student records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0593
Scope and Contents

This collection comprises student counseling records kept by the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) up until 1960.

Dates: Prior to 1955; 1955-1960

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visual Arts Program records

 Collection
Identifier: AC-0667
Abstract

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visual Arts Program records contain documents and records generated by the program in the course of its operations from 1989 - 2009. The physical materials in the collection include DVDs, mini cassette tapes, paper materials like theses and student portfolios, binders holding course information, and some mixed materials of a non-traditional format.

Dates: 1989 - 2010

MIT Architecture website

 Digital Record
Identifier: https://architecture.mit.edu/

MIT Architecture website, 2017 February 03 – ongoing

 Item
Identifier: cuid26429
Scope and Contents The MIT Department of Architecture website provides information on the Department's mission, history, disciplines, people, research, academic programs, admissions, and news. The MIT Department of Architecture, established in 1865, is the oldest architecture department in the United States and is consistently ranked as one of the top programs in the United States. Offering undergraduate, professional, post-professional, and doctoral degree programs across five discipline groups, the...
Dates: 2017 February 03 – ongoing

Samuel B. Zisman papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39080014191867]
Identifier: MC-0502
Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Samauel Zisman papers contain notes and correspondence about design in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture.

Dates: circa 1930-1935

William R. Ware papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-0014
Abstract William Robert Ware is best known as an educator and the founder of the schools of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Columbia University. Also a practicing architect, he and his partner, Henry Van Brunt, designed and built a number of buildings in the Boston and Cambridge areas, including First Church (Unitarian), Boston; First Congregational Church, Boston; Episcopal Seminary, Harvard University; and Memorial Hall, Harvard University. This collection...
Dates: 1826 - 1914