Publicationshttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/92792024-03-28T08:22:37Z2024-03-28T08:22:37ZUrban Sprawl, Social Media and the Town Hall Square as a Symbol for Civic CultureHolliday, Kathryn E.Casey, Colleenhttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/306542022-07-13T08:29:23Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZUrban Sprawl, Social Media and the Town Hall Square as a Symbol for Civic Culture
Holliday, Kathryn E.; Casey, Colleen
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Architecture Profession and the Public: Leopold Eidlitz's 'Discourses Between Two T-Squares'Holliday, Kathryn E.http://hdl.handle.net/10106/306532022-07-13T08:29:13Z2007-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Architecture Profession and the Public: Leopold Eidlitz's 'Discourses Between Two T-Squares'
Holliday, Kathryn E.
Since the beginnings of professionalization in the nineteenth century, architects have struggled to find ways to reach a broad public. Leopold Eidlitz, one of the founding members of the American Institute of Architects, published a series of essays in The Crayon in 1858 that attempted, through the use of popular literary forms, to do just that. Eidlitz addressed the “Discourses Between Two T-Squares” to a general audience and hoped that their humor and scathing caricatures would educate non-professionals about the practical and theoretical intricacies of architecture. Eidlitz's attempt at advocacy sheds light on the long-standing difficulty that architects have creating a resonant public image.
2007-01-01T00:00:00ZBuild More and Draw Less: The AIA and Leopold Eidlitz's Grand Central School of ArchitectureHolliday, Kathryn E.http://hdl.handle.net/10106/306522022-07-13T08:29:28Z2006-01-01T00:00:00ZBuild More and Draw Less: The AIA and Leopold Eidlitz's Grand Central School of Architecture
Holliday, Kathryn E.
In its first decade, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) accomplished few of its purported goals. Founded in 1857 to advance the professional, economic, and social status of architects, the organization spent much of its first ten years not in action but in the throes of intense debate over the proper direction the profession should take. Issues ranging from the practical--materials, ethical client relationships, building codes, and competition rules--to the abstract--aesthetcis, style, and history--engaged the broad range of men who appeared at the AIA's monthly meetings. The recurring debate over the form and content of architectural education shows deep rits in the profession about more than just the details of curriculum. The failed attempt to establish a Grand Central School of Architecture run by the AIA and located in New York City established the AIA's policy of decentralized architectural education located within the American university system.
2006-01-01T00:00:00ZWhose City Hall Is It? Architecture and Identity in New OrleansHolliday, Kathryn E.http://hdl.handle.net/10106/306512022-07-13T08:19:52Z2009-08-01T00:00:00ZWhose City Hall Is It? Architecture and Identity in New Orleans
Holliday, Kathryn E.
New Orleans has had three city halls, all still standing. Built in 1795, 1845,
and 1957, these city halls represent different facets of the public image of the city as a
modern world metropolis, reflecting cosmopolitan French, Spanish, English, and
American fashions. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a proposal emerged in
2006 to demolish the third city hall, an International Style office tower, and replace it with
a National Jazz Center designed by Santa Monica-based Morphosis. A culturally and
historically situated discussion of how each of the three city halls reflects New Orleans’s
cultural identity can provide a context for debating the present desire to replace public
civic architecture with an architecture of private entertainment.
2009-08-01T00:00:00Z