Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory Format:Paperback ISBN-10: 3836560216

ISBN-10: 3836560216

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

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

Adele Cygelman is a longtime writer and editor who has covered interior design architecture and real estate for numerous magazines including Architectural Digest and Robb Report

From weekend homes to get-away cabins in the mountains by the sea or in the woods this architecture embodies our longing for lounging in nature

Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory Format:Paperback ISBN-10: 3836560216An 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