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Yanni, Carla, author.
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Dormitories -- United States -- History.
Architecture and society -- United States -- History.
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Living on campus : a...
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Living on campus : an architectural history of the American dormitory / Carla Yanni.
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Yanni, Carla, author.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
Subjects
Dormitories -- United States -- History.
Architecture and society -- United States -- History.
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9781517904562 (paperback ; alkaline paper) :
1517904560 (paperback ; alkaline paper) :
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295 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm
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College housing for men : fellowship and exclusivity -- The coed's predicament : women's dormitories at coeducational colleges -- Quadrangles in the early twentieth century -- Dorms on the rise : skyscraper residence halls -- Rejecting the high rise : quadrangles (redux) and hill towns -- Epilogue : architectural inequality and the future of residence halls.
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"Every fall on move-in day, parents tearfully bid farewell to their beloved sons and daughters at college dormitories: it is an age-old ritual. The residence hall has come to mark the threshold between childhood and adulthood, housing young people during a transformational time in their lives. Whether a Gothic stone pile, a quaint Colonial box, or a concrete slab, the dormitory is decidedly unhomelike, yet it takes center stage in the dramatic arc of many American families. This richly illustrated book examines the architecture of dormitories in the United States from the eighteenth century to 1968, asking fundamental questions: Why have American educators believed for so long that housing students is essential to educating them? And how has architecture validated that idea? Living on Campus is the first architectural history of this critical building type. Grounded in extensive archival research, Carla Yanni's study highlights the opinions of architects, professors, and deans, and also includes the voices of students. For centuries, academic leaders in the United States asserted that on-campus living enhanced the moral character of youth; that somewhat dubious claim nonetheless influenced the design and planning of these ubiquitous yet often overlooked campus buildings. Through nuanced architectural analysis and detailed social history, Yanni offers unexpected glimpses into the past: double-loaded corridors (which made surveillance easy but echoed with noise), staircase plans (which prevented roughhousing but offered no communal space), lavish lounges in women's halls (intended to civilize male visitors), specially designed upholstered benches for courting couples, mixed-gender saunas for students in the radical 1960s, and lazy rivers for the twenty-first century's stressed-out undergraduates. Against the backdrop of sweeping societal changes, communal living endured because it bolstered networking, if not studying. Housing policies often enabled discrimination according to class, race, and gender, despite the fact that deans envisioned the residence hall as a democratic alternative to the elitist fraternity. Yanni focuses on the dormitory as a place of exclusion as much as a site of fellowship, and considers the uncertain future of residence halls in the age of distance learning."--
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