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_aNA6602 .D6 _bY36 2019 |
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_aLiving on campus : _ban architectural history of the American dormitory / _cCarla Yanni. |
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_aMinneapolis : _bUniversity of Minnesota Press, _c[2019] |
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_a295 pages : _billustrations, plans ; _c26 cm |
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_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia. |
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505 | 0 | _aCollege housing for men : fellowship and exclusivity -- The coed's predicament : women's dormitories at coeducational college -- Quadrangles in the early twentieth century -- Dorms on the rise : skyscraper residence halls -- Rejecting the high rise : quadrangles (redux) and hill towns -- Epilogue : architectural inequality and the future of residence halls. | |
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_a"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 Yanniâ#x80;#x99;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 womenâ#x80;#x99;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 centuryâ#x80;#x99;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"-- _cProvided by pu. |
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_aDormitories _zUnited States _xHistory. |
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_aArchitecture and society _zUnited States _xHistory. |
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_iOnline version: _aYanni, Carla. _tLiving on campus. _dMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2019 _z9781452959559 _w(DLC) 2018039136. |
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