Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory

Author:   Carla Yanni ,  Carla Yanni
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
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Pages:   288
Publication Date:   02 April 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Carla Yanni ,  Carla Yanni
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
ISBN:  

9781517904562


ISBN 10:   1517904560
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   02 April 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Contents Introduction 1. College Housing for Men: Fellowship and Exclusivity 2. The Coed’s Predicament: Women’s Dormitories at Coeducational College 3. Quadrangles in the Early Twentieth Century 4. Dorms on the Rise: Skyscraper Residence Halls 5. Rejecting the High Rise: Quadrangles (Redux) and Hill Towns Epilogue: Architectural Inequality and the Future of Residence Halls Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Index

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Living on Campus is an outstanding contribution to the research literature on student life and college residence halls. Carla Yanni's rigorous scholarship and captivating writing style invites the reader into the lives of students and the places they live from the early colonial period to present day. She skillfully uses students' life experiences and her deep historical and architectural knowledge to show how student life, architectural design, and educational philosophy interacted throughout history to shape the collegiate experience. This is a must read for anyone interested in student life in college residence halls. -Gregory S. Blimling, author of Student Learning in College Residence Halls: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why What a lively and fascinating study! Living on Campus offers compelling looks at architectural plans, facades, and interiors of residential buildings for college and university students. Attentive to the myriad issues of college life, the work links the history of dormitories to the diverse lives lived within-and without-their walls and to the changing goals of campus administrators and donors. -Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, author of Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s In clear, elegant prose, Carla Yanni tracks the 350-year architectural history of the college dormitory and exposes its contested social meanings, marked by inclusions and exclusions on the basis of class, gender, and race. This is a remarkable achievement-a welcome addition to the architectural history of youth, higher education, and institutions. -Marta Gutman, author of A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950 In Living on Campus, Carla Yanni interrogates the social history of college residences to map the struggles between inclusion and exclusion that frame the daily life of the American campus. From the development of moral character to the creation of a democratic citizenry, these buildings go hand in hand with the libraries, classrooms, and laboratories that make up the pedagogical space of higher education today. -Sharon Haar, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning


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Carla Yanni is professor of art history at Rutgers University. She is author of The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States (Minnesota, 2007) and Nature’s Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display. 

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