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THE HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, UNIVERSTIY OF OREGON, EUGENE, OREGON
by
Michael J. Clark
Onyx Alley
Eugene OR
mclark7@
INTRODUCTION.
SETTING THE CONTEXT
I. THE FIRST AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE
STUDENT
From to , Richard Morris Hunt studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and then worked in France upon his graduation. Hunt returned to New York in , fired by his experience, and by his love of European architecture.
Hunt opened an atelier on 10th Street in New York City, and began what Professor Hamlin has described as "the nursery of architectural education in America." He attracted many promising young architects, including William Robert Ware, a graduate of the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard, and Henry Van Brunt, an architecture scholar. Hunt's passion for architecture and for the method of instruction he had learned at the Beaux-Art in Paris was dilligently passed on to his associates.
In , the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (then Boston Tech) determined to establish a professional school in architecture
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On a recent Sunday I returned to the campus of Stanford University. Although I did not attend this famous western house of learning, I felt as if I grew up here. Indeed the campus is in my bloodlines.
My father graduated from Stanford in , at time when the Farm was more affordable and you didn&#;t need an outrageous GPA to be accepted. This may have been considered a betrayal because my grandfather attended Cal (University of California at Berkeley), Stanford&#;s bitter rival. (The previous day Stanford defeated Cal in the &#;Big Game&#; ).
My parents were married at the Memorial Church on August 3, and they settled just south of the campus in The Valley of Heart&#;s Delight among the apricot and cherry orchards in Sunnyvale. This area would be transformed, it&#;s orchards yielding to concrete, and the area would be rechristened &#;Silicon Valley&#;.
My father would bring my younger brother and I to Stanford football scrimmages and sometimes a baseball game. I loved the Stanford Bookstore, one of the best in the area, and sadly one of the few left. The campus is filled with beautiful buildings placed among the coast live oaks and palm trees. The center piece was the church before me.
I sketched the church from a circular planter in &#;The Quad&#;, just off center to the
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