Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory Format:Paperback If the goal were to

If the goal were to build a house in which everyone would like to live the architect would likely be Italian the engineer maybe German the gardener probably British and the craftspeople either Swiss or Japanese

This is a personal almost intimate record of one man's fifty-year relationship to a work of genius that only gradually revealed its complexities and originality

Publisher: Rizzoli (September 10 2019)

Publisher: Birkhauser Architecture (October 8 2019)

260 illustrations Hardcover: 288 pages

Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory Format:Paperback If the goal were toAn exploration of the architecture of dormitories that exposes deeply held American beliefs about education youth and citizenshipEvery 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