Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture

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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.

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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.

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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.

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...

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

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

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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.

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...

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

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...