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Every fall on move-in day, parents tearfully bid farewell to their beloved sons and daughters at college dormitories: it is an age-old ritual. The residence hall has come to mark the threshold between childhood and adulthood, housing young people during a transformational time in their lives. Whether a Gothic stone pile, a quaint Colonial box, or a concrete slab, the dormitory is decidedly unhomelike, yet it takes center stage in the dramatic arc of many American families. This richly illustrated book examines the architecture of dormitories in the United States from the eighteenth century to 1968, asking fundamental questions: Why have American educators believed for so long that housing students is essential to educating them? And how has architecture validated that idea? Living on Campus is the first architectural history of this critical building type. Grounded in extensive archival research, Carla Yanni's study highlights the opinions of architects, professors, and deans, and also includes the voices of students. For centuries, academic leaders in the United States asserted that on-campus living enhanced the moral character of youth; that somewhat dubious claim nonetheless influenced the design and planning of these ubiquitous yet often overlooked campus buildings. Through nuanced architectural analysis and detailed social history, Yanni offers unexpected glimpses into the past: double-loaded corridors (which made surveillance easy but echoed with noise), staircase plans (which prevented roughhousing but offered no communal space), lavish lounges in women's halls (intended to civilize male visitors), specially designed upholstered benches for courting couples, mixed-gender saunas for students in the radical 1960s, and lazy rivers for the twenty-first century's stressed-out undergraduates. Against the backdrop of sweeping societal changes, communal living endured because it bolstered networking, if not studying. Housing policies often enabled discrimination according to class, race, and gender, despite the fact that deans envisioned the residence hall as a democratic alternative to the elitist fraternity. Yanni focuses on the dormitory as a place of exclusion as much as a site of fellowship, and considers the uncertain future of residence halls in the age of distance learning.

Dortoirs --- Architecture --- Histoire. --- Aspect social --- Dormitories --- Architecture and society --- 728.45 --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Dorms --- Halls of residence --- Residence halls --- Dwellings --- School buildings --- Student housing --- History --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- History. --- College campuses --- Résidences d'étudiants --- Campus --- Architectrue et société --- Histoire

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"The Urban Fact examines Aldo Rossi's formulation of a theory of the city, developed over the period of roughly ten years, from Architecture of the City published in 1966, to Analogous City exhibited in 1976. Rossi's theory is not taken as an abstract argument, but is seen through his work from that period. A careful selection of twenty-three projects is here presented at face value. These projects, bound by the reality of their setting, but also charged with cultural and civic ambition, illustrate the intricacy of an architectural project as a complex ""whole"". They also demonstrate how architecture could contribute to the changing urban context of the field, hinting at an oeuvre painfully aware of its limitations and stubborn in its intentions."

(Produktform)Hardback --- Architektur der Stadt --- Aldo Rossi --- Architekturtheorie --- Architecture of the City --- Analogous City --- Architektur --- Kersten Geers --- (VLB-WN)1584: Hardcover, Softcover / Kunst/Architektur --- 72 ROSSI --- 725.82 --- 72.036 <4> --- 728.45 --- 728.3 --- 728.3 Eengezinshuizen. Eengezinswoningen --- Eengezinshuizen. Eengezinswoningen --- 72.036 <4> Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw--Europa --- Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw--Europa --- 725.82 Gebouwen met nadruk op het visuele aspect --- Gebouwen met nadruk op het visuele aspect --- Architecte --- Biographie --- Architecture --- 20e siècle --- Rossi, Aldo, --- Rossi, Aldo --- Architectuurtheorie --- Philosophy. --- 72.07 --- Rossi, Aldo 1931-1997 (°Milaan, Italië) --- Architectuur ; stedenbouw ; 20ste eeuw ; Aldo Rossi --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- architecture [discipline] --- architects --- Rossi, Aldo, 1931-1997