Education of an Architect (ed. John Hejduk, Elizabeth Diller, Diane Lewis, and Kim Shkapich; Rizzoli 1988) documents the work at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union from 1972–1985.
Profiling twelve years of architectural education from 1972-1985, Education of an Architect celebrates the work of the talented students and the spirited faculty of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union. It is divided into two parts covering chronologically the first four years of the design studio, and the thesis year which is organized by topic: Instruments, Orders and Projections, the City, the Institution, Outskirts, the House, Bridges, Topographies and Texts. This volume is a sequel to an earlier work of the same title, published in 1971 when the Cooper Union School of Architecture was invited by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, to exhibit student work produced between 1964 and 1971, the first such exhibition ever held at the Museum. That volume has since become a classic within architectural education, immensely influential upon architectural thought and practice in the last fifteen years.
This new collection presents work influenced by art, literature, and medicine, and consequently details the scope of expanded thought that now permeates Architecture.
– John Hejduk, Elizabeth Diller, Diane Lewis, and Kim Shkapich (eds.) Education of an Architect: The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union (Rizzoli, 1988), book description
The text is in English. The book is profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs and architectural drawings.
Our copy is in good condition. The pages are clean; no markings. The glueing of the binding is fine. The covers show some minor traces of shelf wear and use. There is an old price sticker on the back cover.
