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The School of Architecture, previously known as the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, is Princeton University's academic unit dedicated to the teaching and study of architecture and related topics. Founded in 1919 as the School of Architecture at Princeton University, it shared many faculty members and facilities with other units within the Department of Art and Archaeology. The steady growth of the program led to its establishment as an independent entity in 1952. The construction of a new building in 1963 and the creation of the office of Dean of the School of Architecture in 1965 further cemented the School's position as a full-fledged institution. Shortly thereafter, in cooperation with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, a program in Urban Planning was added to the course offerings and in 1967 the name of the school was officially changed to the School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Around 1980, the School of Architecture and Urban Planning ceased its program in urban planning (although the Wilson School continues to offer one) and changed its name back to the School of Architecture. Today the School of Architecture offers undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees. Over the years, the course of study offered by the School of Architecture has been restructured frequently in response to technological innovation and emerging issues in the field of architecture, and many prominent architects have been drawn to the School to teach. Included among this group are Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Michael Graves.
Consists of the records of the School of Architecture and its related research units, the Bureau of Urban Research and its successor, the Research Center for Urban and Environmental Planning. Includes subject files, correspondence, course descriptions, published and unpublished studies produced by the School on subjects such as land use; and financial records of the department, faculty minutes, course descriptions, publicity materials, and reports documenting the School's accreditation visit by the National Architecture Accrediting Board. Also included in the collection are the correspondence and subject files of Robert Geddes and Robert Maxwell, the first two Deans of the School of Architecture.
The records of the School of Architecture are divided into seven series:
Series 6: Bureau of Urban Research Records, 1935-1977 was previously cataloged as collection AC257. Series 7: Research Center for Urban and Environmental Planning Records, 1950-1970 (bulk 1960-1969) was previously cataloged as collection AC215. Professor Geddes transferred records in 2015 and 2016 (accession AR.2015.025 and AR.2016.045).
Full text searching of the School of Architecture archived website is available through the Archive-It interface.
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
Series 6 and 7 were added by Christie Peterson with assistance from Suchi Mandavilli '14 and Eleanor Wright '14 in October 2011. Finding aid updated by Christie Peterson in October 2011. Additions to Series 1 were processed by Annalise Berdini in May 2018.
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Organization
- National Architectural Accrediting Board (U.S.)
- Princeton University
- Princeton University. Bureau of Urban Research
- Princeton University. School of Architecture and Urban Planning
Subject
- Architecture -- Study and teaching -- New Jersey -- Princeton
- Architecture -- Study and teaching (Graduate) -- New Jersey -- Princeton
- Cities and towns -- Research
- Cities and towns -- Study and teaching
- City planning -- New Jersey -- Citizen participation
- City planning -- Research
- City planning -- Study and teaching
- City Planning -- Study and teaching (Graduate) -- New Jersey -- Princeton
- Land use -- Case studies
- Universities and colleges -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- Departments
- Publisher
- University Archives
- Finding Aid Author
- Christie Peterson
- Finding Aid Date
- 2007
- Access Restrictions
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This collection must be reviewed for potentially restricted records before access is given. Please contact the University Archives prior to your visit. In addition, the following materials are restricted for research in compliance with the University Archives Access Policy: Box 1: Folders 4-6 and 65-71; Box 6: Folder 32; Box 8: Folders 21 and 22, and Box 9: Folders 45, 53, and 55-58.
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Collection Inventory
Robert L. Geddes was named the first Dean of the School of Architecture in 1965 (the previous leader used the title "Director"). He held that position until his retirement in 1982. Under Dean Geddes, the school's curriculum expansion to include urban planning, which was taught in collaboration with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and the school was renamed the School of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Series 1: Robert L. Geddes, 1966-1989 contains the files of Robert L. Geddes during most of his tenture as Dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning. The files do not contain any records from the last few years of Geddes' term, 1979-1982.
The files in Series 1: Robert L. Geddes, 1966-1989 are arranged in four main groups: a series of files on committees, followed by a run of chronolgoically-arranged outgoing correspondence, a set of files on courses, and a long run of topical files arranged alphabetically.
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Syllabi, notes, and documents that pertain to the teaching of Architecture 101.
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Lecture notebook of Peter Charapko '71 *74 for Architecture 101.
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Lecture notebook of Ellen Dunham-Jones '80 *83 for Architecture 101.
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This box contains the first newsletters, catalogs, and public writings about the founding of the School of Architecture. The records provide insight into the school's early development as documented by Robert L. Geddes
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Contains official University registers and catalog listings for the School of Architecture.
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This file includes newsletters and newspapers published by the School of Architecture.
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This file consists chiefly of published materials written by or about both Robert Geddes and the School of Architecture.
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Invitation by Whitney J. Oates, Chair of The Council of the Humanities, Princeton University, to Robert Geddes to visit Princeton and the School of Architecture
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Robert F. Goheen, President, Princeton University
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Princeton Quarterly, 1967 and PAW June 6,1967
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Includes Geddes' notes from first meeting in Philadelphia, 1965, Geddes' notes from conversations on Architecture and Sociology, and syllabus of Social and Architectural Theory in Housing and Urbanism.
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Includes article by John M. Fenton, Planning for People, Princeton Alumni Magazine, November 16,1971; article in The Evening Bulletin, Philadelphia, Princeton Scholars Study Ways People Change Their World, February 29, 1972.
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Prepared for the State of New Jersey by the Research Center for Urban and Environmental Planning, Princeton University, review in Architecture Forum.
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Appeared in Architecture Forum magazine, September 1972, October 1972
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Interview of Robert Geddes in University: A Princeton Quarterly
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Produced for the State of New Jersey, Department of Community Affairs, Division of Aging.
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State of New Jersey, Department of Community Affairs; American Institute of Planners, New Jersey Chapter; New Jersey Society of Architects; May 15, 1975.
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Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York. Symposium and exhibition of drawings, curated by Michael Wurmfeld. interview of Jean Labatut, commentary by Heath Licklider, Robert Venturi, Charles Moore, Emilio Ambasz, Robert Gutman, Robert Geddes. Catalog. January 1977.
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Includes materials about Professional Education; Internship; Licensure; Continuing Education. Statements by Louis Kahn, Robert Geddes. 1980
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, sponsored by the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects
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United States Information Agency USIA, Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Architectural Review magazine
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Joseph Bilello, Director of Education Programs, American Institute of Architects
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Conference sponsored by Harvard University and Cornell University
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Original event cancelled by blizzard. Rescheduled event, November 13, 2004. Guestbook comments by Robert and Margaret Goheen, Neil and Angelica Rudenstine, Anthony Vidler, Alan Chimacoff, Harrison Fraker, Doug Kelbaugh, Carlton Brown, Mary McLeod, David Billington, Stan Allen.
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Gwen McNamara, Princeton Packet
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Princeton University Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment
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These files have been left in their original order.
Professional Files contains information on the projects, writings, and impact of Robert Geddes' professional career as an architect. Of particular note are the Philadelphia Police Headquarters and Liberty State Park projects.
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Dorothy Whiteman was the Assistant to the Director and, later, Assistant Director of the Research Center for Urban and Environmental Planning and its predecessor, the Bureau of Urban Research.
The files in Series 2: Dorothy Whiteman, 1967-1977 remain in their original order.
Series 2: Dorothy Whiteman, 1967-1977 contains some files maintained by Whiteman in her position as Assistant Director of the Research Center for Urban and Environmental Planning. The files include information about staff and research projects, as well as several files of news clippings about the Center and its work.
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Series 3: Publications, 1955, 1968-1977 contains copies of conference publications, working papers and other publications by the department, as well as organizations and people affiliated with it.
The contents of Series 3: Publications,1955, 1968-1977 are arranged alphabetically by publication title, except for the publications related to Urban Planning Workshops and Working Papers, which are filed under "U" and "W", respectively.
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No arrangement has been imposed on the files in Series 4: Robert L. Maxwell, 1982-1989. In particuar, although the correspondence in this series is organized chronologically within files, the files themselves are not arranged in any chronological order.
Series 4: Robert L. Maxwell, 1982-1989 consists of the records of Maxwell during his tenure as Dean of the School of Architecture. The bulk of this series is chronological correspondence files, along with a smaller aomount of memoranda and a calendar.
Robert L. Maxwell served as Dean of the School of Architecture from 1982-1989, after which he became a Professor Emeritus and, in 1993, founded the practice of Maxwell Scott Architects.
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The files in Series 5, Course Folders for National Architectural Accreditation Board Visit, 1993, are arranged by department name and course number.
Series 5: Course Folders for National Architectural Accreditation Board Visit, 1993 consists of files about courses that were prepared as part of the accreditation process. The files contain course descriptions, syllabi, and samples of student work for undergraduate and graduate courses in the departments of Anthropology, Architecture, Art and Archaeology, and Civil Engineering.
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The Bureau of Urban Research was formed at Princeton University in 1941 to establish source material for research in the field of Urban Studies. The Bureau had three major goals, these being the coordination of information and research, the creation of original research, and providing assistance to students interested in the field. In pursuit of these ends the Bureau of Urban Research created a research library of urban studies materials as well as published scholarly periodical, "The Urban Reference." In 1967 the Bureau of Urban Research merged with the newly created Research Center for Urban and Environmental Planning.
Series 6: Bureau of Urban Research Records, 1935-1977 contains information about the projects, publications, and admnistration of the Bureau from its inception beyond its merger with the Research Center for Urban and Evnironmental Planning.
No arrangement has been imposed on Series 6: Bureau of Urban Research Records, 1935-1977. The folders remain in the original order in which they were received in the archives.
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In 1966, the School of Architecture created the Center for Studies of the Planned Environment, which was renamed the Research Center for Urban and Environmental Planning in 1967, the same year that the existing Bureau of Urban Research was merged with it.
The Center was staffed by visiting scholars and faculty from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning who worked with researchers from many disciplines, including engineering, the natural sciences, the social sciences, the humanities, and public affairs. Its primary function, like that of its predecessor the Bureau of Urban Research, was to produce source material for urban studies. Typical projects included the creation of a Planning and Design Workbook for Community Participation, and studies on the impact of mass transit on urban development.
The Research Center for Urban and Environmental Planning ceased operations around 1980, shortly after the Princeton Urban and Regional Research Center was organized by the Woodrow Wilson School. Around the same time, the School of Architecture and Urban Planning ceased to offer a program in urban planning (although the Wilson School continued to do so) and the School of Architecture and Urban Planning changed its name back to the School of Architecture. The collections of the Research Center for Urban and Environmental Planning and the earlier Bureau of Urban Research became part of the School of Architecture's library.
No arrangement has been imposed on Series 7: Research Center for Urban and Environmental Planning Records, 1950-1969 (bulk 1960-1969). The folders remain in the original order in which they were received in the archives.
Series 6: Research Center for Urban and Environmental Studies Records, 1950-1969 (bulk 1960-1969) contains information about the projects and admnistration of the Research Center during the 1960s, including work for Model Cities, the federal urban aid program.
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No arrangement action taken or arrangement information not recorded at the time of processing.
The Princeton University School of Architecture websites are comprised primarily of news stories and press releases about the department's faculty, researchers, and students. The sites contain calendars of events, directory listings, and displays of student and faculty work.
Full text searching of the School of Architecture archived website is available through the Archive-It interface.
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