CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Preface xi Foreword xiii The Curious Problem of the Architecture of Schools of Architecture PHILIP LANGDON Introduction i The Context of Architectural Education Today JACK L. NASAR, WOLFGANG F. E. PREISER, AND THOMAS FISHER PART I Transforming Architectural Education 1 Redesigning Architecture Education 11 ROBERT GUTMAN 2 Architectural Education on the Verge 19 DANIEL S. FRIEDMAN 3 Historical Development of Architecture Schools 27 HENRY SANOFF 4 The Architecture School as a Type 34 THOMAS FISHER PART III Assessing Architecture School Designs 5 Assessing Designs of Schools of Architecture 61 WOLFGANG F. E. PREISER AND JACK L. NASAR 6 Lessons Learned and the Future of Schools of Architecture Buildings 7 2 JACK L. NASAR, WOLFGANG F. E. PREISER, AND THOMAS FISHER PART III Evaluation Case Studies (United States) 7 Austin E. Knowlton Hall 95 The Ohio State University JACK L. NASAR 8 The Langford Architecture Center 107 Texas A&M University MARDELLE MCCUSKEY SHEPLEY AND HILAL OZCAN 9 College of Environmental Design 117 UC Berkeley Temporary Home GALEN CRANZ, WITH JESS WENDOVER, IRIS TIEN, MARK GILLEM, AND JON NORMAN 10 Aronoff Center for Design and Art 128 The University of Cincinnati WOLFGANG F. E. PREISER 11 Temple Buell Hall 140 The University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign KATHRYN H. ANTHONY AND MARINA PANOS 12 Rapson Hall, College of Design 151 University of Minnesota KATHLEEN A. HARDER, JOHN CARMODY, VIRAJITA SINGH, AND THOMAS FISHER 13 College of Architecture 162 University of Nebraska-Lincoln JAMES POTTER 14 Goldsmith Hall Renovation 173 The University of Texas, Austin NANCY KWALLEK 15 Students' Assessment of Architecture Schools 183 HENRY SANOFF PART IV Evaluation Case Studies (International) 16 The School of Architecture 2oj Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey EBRU CUBUKCU 1 7 Evaluation Informing Change: The Wilkinson Architecture Building 2 1 8 The University of Sydney, Australia TAKEMI SUGIYAMA, ROHAN LULHAM, AND GARY T. MOORE 2 3 i 1 8 The Department of Landscape Architecture (Institutionen for Landskapsplanering) Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) Uppsala, Sweden CARA D. ANDERSSON AND NATHAN H. PERKINS Appendix A 243 Data Gathering Instruments Appendix B 263 Lessons Learned Appendix C 26j Wilkinson Architecture Building, University of Sydney TAKEMI SUGIYAMA, ROHAN LULHAM, AND GARY T. MOORE References 269 Contributors 279 Credits 285 Index 289