Architecture -- Study and teaching
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Farwell Bemis Foundation records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0302
Abstract
Albert Farwell Bemis, 1870-1936, SB in civil engineering, 1893, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was a businessman and authority on housing. He was a member of the MIT Corporation and was on several Institute visiting committees. Provisions in his will established the Albert Farwell Bemis Charity Trust in 1936 to fund research on housing. In 1938 the trust gave funds to establish the Albert Farwell Bemis Foundation at MIT. The foundation became a separate division within MIT,...
Dates:
1926 - 1954
Architecture Education Study records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0108
Dates:
1972 - 1982
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture records
Collection
Identifier: AC-0260
Dates:
1871 - 1993
Rotch Travelling Scholarship records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0520
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the history of the Rotch Travelling Scholarship from the founding of the organization in 1883 through 2013. The records include minutes of meetings, correspondence, financial records, reports, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, and published volumes. The major part of the collection, documenting annual competitions, consists of competition programs, photographic documentation of the winning entries, travel itineraries, scholars’ travel diaries, and final reports....
Dates:
1882 - 2013
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 Emerson papers
Collection — Box Shared B: [Barcode: 39080036789516]
Identifier: MC-0335
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The collection consists of a drawing made by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor William Emerson while he was a student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1898; articles and news clippings about Emerson's activities, 1924-1945; and the manuscript of his writings on American architectural education.
Dates:
1898 - 1945
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