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An architectural educator is a person who trains prospective professional architects and architectural technicians. This involves training in the discipline of architectural design or more specifically, the design of constructed environments .
Robin Evans (8 May 1944 – 19 February 1993) was an architect, teacher and historian. He grew up in Essex, England, attending British state schools where he met his wife, teacher Janet Bance - before studying Architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (the AA), gaining his Diploma and the Bristol Prize (1969).
Leo A. Daly, LLC is an American architecture firm established in 1915 by Leo A. Daly, Sr. in Omaha, Nebraska. [1] Aside from architectural design, the firm also works in planning, engineering, interior design and program management.
His philosophy was that architecture was an organizational task without relationship to aesthetics, that buildings should be low cost and designed to fulfill social needs. He was dismissed for allegedly politicizing the school. [citation needed] Meyer brought the two most significant building commissions for the school, both of which still exist.
The Architecture program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was founded in 1865, with the first courses taught in 1868. Despite its founding within a technical school, the architecture program began as a course of general study that was more closely aligned with the liberal arts.
Vincent Joseph Scully Jr. (August 21, 1920 – November 30, 2017) [1] was an American art historian who was a Sterling Professor of the History of Art in Architecture at Yale University, and the author of several books on the subject. Architect Philip Johnson once described Scully as "the most influential architectural teacher ever."
However, many teachers at HfG, especially those of theoretical courses, sought to emphasize analytic methods encompassing sociological, economic, psychological and physiological considerations. Among them was Tomás Maldonado, who saw the design process as a system embodying both scientific-based and intuitive-based thinking.
Lawrence Halprin (July 1, 1916 – October 25, 2009) was an American landscape architect, designer and teacher. [1]Beginning his career in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, in 1949, Halprin often collaborated with a local circle of modernist architects on relatively modest projects.