A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning (University of Michigan) records, 1876-[ongoing].

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A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning (University of Michigan) records, 1876-[ongoing].

The records are organized according to five separate accessions. While primarily comprised of documentation in the form of minutes, dean's files, and topical files, the record group also contains photographs and several oversized folders of architectural drawings. The latter are mainly unrealized designs for buildings housing the college. The Minutes series includes bound volumes and unbound files of the minutes of meetings of the executive committee and of the faculty. Dean's files that are well-represented include records from the tenures of Wells Ira Bennett, Reginald Malcomson, Robert C. Metcalf, and Robert Beckley. The National Architectural Accrediting Board series is comprised of correspondence relating to national accreditation and includes detailed evaluation reports. Day to day workings of the college are documented in an Administrative series. Collected material related to Raoul G. Wallenberg, a graduate of the college, include a documentary of his life, photographs, and transcripts of lectures from a series named in his honor.

54.5 linear ft., 1 oversized box, 1 flat file drawer.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8218279

Bentley Historical Library

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University of Michigan. College of Architecture and Urban Planning

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The Act of 1837, which established a state university at Ann Arbor, numbered among its provisions one for the appointment of a professor of civil engineering and architecture. However, it was not until 1876 that William LeBaron Jenney was appointed as the first professor of architecture and design. In that year, one-third of the legislature's appropriation for the School of Mines was set aside for the establishment of a Department of Architecture and Design. In its first year, the p...

University of Michigan. College of Architecture and Design

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Bennett, Wells Ira, 1888-

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Architect, professor and dean of the College of Architecture and Design of the University of Michigan. From the description of Wells I. Bennett papers, 1916-1965. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 154302252 The career of Wells Ira Bennett, professor and Dean of the College of Architecture and Design at The University of Michigan, was divided throughout between the academic and the practical, the traditional and the contemporary. Although most of Benn...

Beckley, Robert M.

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Dean of the University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning from 1987 to 1997. From the description of Recollections of a Dean, 2009. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 700215813 Robert M. Beckley was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended the University of Cincinnati (BS 1959) and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (MA 1961). He joined the University of Michigan faculty as an instructor in 1963 and was promoted to assistant profess...

Metcalf, Robert Clarence, 1923-

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Noted Michigan-based modern architect, former professor, and later Dean of the University of Michigan College of Architecture and Design. Metcalf's work includes over 120 buildings in Michigan and Ohio. From the description of Robert C. Metcalf visual material series. 1950-2008. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 635981107 Noted Michigan-based modern architect, former professor, and later Dean of the University of Michigan College of Architecture and Design. Metca...

A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

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It was more than twenty years after William LeBaron Jenney taught architecture at the University of Michigan from 1876 to 1877 before a chair was officially established within the Department of Engineering. In 1931, a separate and more autonomous College of Architecture was established and Emil Lorch named Director. The focus of the program expanded throughout the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s to include decorative and landscape design and by the 1950s to include city planning...

Wallenberg, Raoul, 1912-1947

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Raoul Wallenberg, also known as Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg, (b. August 4, 1912, Lidingö, Sweden-d. 1947, Lubyanka Prison, Moscow), Swedish diplomat in Nazi-occupied Hungary who led an extensive and successful mission to save the lives of nearly 100,000 Hungarian Jews....

Malcolmson, Reginald, 1912-

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Architect, dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. From the description of Reginald F. Malcolmson architectural drawings, [1960s?] (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 78697262 ...