Frederick J. Adams papers

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Frederick J. Adams papers

1931-1978

Frederick Johnstone Adams was a city planner and a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1932 to 1964. He helped establish the City and Regional Planning Program at MIT and was later head of the department, 1944-1957. This collection contains personal and professional papers of Frederick J. Adams, a professor of the Department of Architecture, and later the Department of City and Regional Planning at MIT. A small number of reports and administrative records of the MIT Department of City and Regional Planning, 1937-1969, and its successor, the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, are included in the collection.

0.6 cubic feet; (1 manuscript box, 1 half manuscript box)

eng, Latn

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture

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The first architecture faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was William R. Ware, appointed in the fall of 1865 to plan the curriculum of the first architecture school in the United States. Funds were supplied partly by MIT and partly from private sources for William Ware to visit Europe to examine educational programs and purchase supplies; thus classes were not held until October 1868. The first student graduated with an architecture degree in 1873. Cl...

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Adams, Frederick J. (Frederick Johnstone), 1901-1979

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Frederick Johnstone Adams (1901- 1979) studied at the Architectural Association School in London, 1921-1925, and received a BArch 1928, Columbia University. He was a city planner and professor of city planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Architecture and the Department of City and Regional Planning, 1932-1964, where he was in charge of the first professional course in city planning at MIT and later served as head of the department, 1944-1957. Adams was also ...

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