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STUDENT WORK
“The ideals formed in childhood from environment and daily
associations go with the child through life, and ideals of correct
living formed in school will be a powerful agency in determining
the future home and public life of the men and women.”
— Rudolph E. Lee
1917, Rural School Buildings
“If the architect isn’t made aware of his role as a servant of
humanity and of the broadening problems
which this implies
during his scholastic career, there is
a very small chance that
he will be inspired to the
highest levels once he is engaged
in practice.”
— Harlan McClure
1958
Home for the Aging
James E. Matthews
1955, Journal of Architectural Education
1958
Piedmont Airport, Greenville, S.C.
Fredrick Towers
1958
Marina for Hilton Head, S.C.
William G. Faris
1959
Secondary School, Walhalla, S.C.
David Miley
1959
Secondary School, Walhalla, S.C.
David Miley
1960
Forest Lake Club House, Columbia South Carolina
Robert Kennedy Jr.
FLUID CAMPUS
Architecture + Health
1968
George Means forms the Health Care Facilities
Planning and Design Studio [HFP&DS].
by Peter L. Laurence, Ph.D., assistant professor
Since its first year of instruction in 1913, architectural education at
Clemson has been mindful of its geographies — its connections and
relationships to both the state of South Carolina and to the wider world.
PRESIDENTS
DEANS
CHAIRMEN
FACULTY
President
Walter Merritt Riggs
1910-1924
Riggs would be home
for the Department
of Architecture
Jim Barker
Rudolph Lee
Harlan McClure
from 1933 until the
opening of Lee Hall
in 1958. Representing growth and disciplinary independence, the new building coincided with the
establishment of the School of Architecture. Designed by Harlan McClure, who served as director and
dean from 1955 to 1984, Lee Hall symbolized the modernization of the school, the college and the
state. The move from Beaux-Arts Riggs Hall to modernist Lee Hall — a shift, in retrospect, from one
international style to another — did not change the school’s geographic networks.
Born in Chattanooga, Tenn., Harlan McClure (1916-2001) had Southern roots and a broad intellectual
horizon. With degrees from George Washington University and MIT, McClure studied at the Royal
Swedish Academy and taught at the Architectural Association in London before leaving the University
of Minnesota for Clemson. As dean, he hired faculty educated at Clemson, across the U.S. and
overseas. His creation of the Clemson Architectural Foundation advanced the similar mission of
bringing distinguished thinkers to the school from around the world. In 1972, McClure would take the
decisive step of establishing the Daniel Center (“the Villa”) in Genoa, Italy, the first satellite of the
school’s “Fluid Campus.”
The decades following McClure’s direction have seen the continued growth of the school, in Clemson
and beyond, under new leadership. The Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston, celebrating its 25th
year, was established in 1988 by then-Dean James F. Barker, FAIA (’70). A decade later, department
chair José Cabán (’67) established the school’s third urban center in Barcelona. Forty years since the
first group of students occupied the Villa, thousands more have expanded their Clemson roots through
the global reach of the Fluid Campus.
Today, a geographically diverse faculty and student body study architecture in great works of
architecture, including the new and award-winning Lee III, on four fluidly connected campuses. As
its faculty, students and buildings have in the past, Clemson’s School of Architecture draws in and
reaches out to distant horizons from Southern roots.
New Faculty
Simons, Albert | Wolcott, Wallace | Wolcott, Rosamond |
Thomson, John | Marvin, Roy
Faculty
Lee, Rudolph E. | Klugh, Williston | Harris,
David | Birch, Mahlon
ARCHITECTURE AT CLEMSON
1896
Rudolph E. Lee graduates
from Department
of Engineering with
Clemson’s first class.
1910
President
Robert Franklin Poole
1940-1958
Acting President
President
Samual Broadus Earle Enoch Walter Sikes
1924-1925
1925-1940
Head
Rudolph E. Lee
1900-1933
1893
Clemson Agricultural
College Founded
However, the
materials came
together to create a
building with global
reach: The building’s
inspirations, Lee
noted, were “the
villas of Rome and
Florence, of sunny
Italy.”
CLEMSON 1928
New engineering building (Riggs Hall)
CLEMSON 1913
Engineering building
1913
Clemson Architecture Program Established
WORLD WAR I 1914-1918
Rosamond Wolcott
First woman to become a faculty member in
architecture
New Faculty
Lange, David
New Faculty
Crowgey, Julian | Siegler, Maurice | Freer, Kenneth H. | Hartell, John | Hodge, Wylie | Schuholz,
Roland | Johnson, Clarence | Little, Sidney | Anderson, Robert
1920
1930
1920 U.S. women are granted voting rights.
1929 The Great Depression begins.
1912
Degree in architectural
engineering, (Department
of Engineering, Division
of Drawing and Design) is
established by
Rudolph E. Lee.
1914
Division of Drawing and
Architectural Engineering
(Dept. of Engineering) are
established.
1917
Division of
Architecture and
Drawing (Dept. of
Engineering) is
established.
1923
Designing “the organism of a building” is
promoted. Classically oriented “Elements of
Architecture” course is added for freshmen
and “Architecture Design” for sophomores.
French is encouraged as Beaux-Arts model
remains prevalent.
“Descriptive
Geometry” is
introduced to the
freshman class
and “Architectural
Design” to the
senior class.
1916
Drawing studio
1857
AIA is founded.
1893
Columbian Exposition opens in
Chicago.
Morrill Land Grant Act
Signed in 1862, this results in a great number
of new engineering schools in the U.S., including
Clemson’s program.
is founded at MIT.
Polytechnic education and École des Beaux-Arts
education models become prevalent.
1880
Society of Beaux-Arts Architects (USA) is founded.
Beaux-Arts, Art Nouveau, Richardsonian
Romanesque, Victorian and other eclectic styles 1902
become prevalent.
AIA requires new members to hold degrees from
approved schools.
1884
First high-rise building is built in
Chicago.
1950
New Faculty
Gunnin, Emery | Ellner, Anthony Jr. | Means, George Jr. | Speer, William |
Gunther, George | Stakely, James | Young, Joseph | Graves, Charles
Head
Harlan Ewart McClure
1955-1958
Genoa
1975-95
Guiseppe Gerster, annual visiting critic / Switzerland
1939-45, World War II
1939 The first commercial flight is made over the Atlantic.
1945 The first computer (ENIAC) is developed.
1949 NATO is established.
1950 The Korean War begins.
1952 Polio vaccine is created.
Acting Dean
Robert Howard Hunter
1971-72
Dean
Harlan E McClure, dean
1958-71
New Faculty
McClure, Harlan | Page, Clayton | Cooledge, Harold Jr. | Brady, | Hunter, Robert | Minton |
Weatherill, Ewart | Craig, Kirk | Gordon, Elbridge
1954 Segregation is ruled illegal in the U.S.
1954 The Vietnam War begins.
New Faculty
Marshall, Clifton | Acorn, John | Kaufmann, Anders | Pinckney, John | Reep, Richard | Regnier,
Ireland | Rogers, John | Sappenfiled, Charles | Russo, Kenneth | Howe, Harold Jr.| Morris, Frank
| Hodges, Vernon
1960
New Faculty
Butera, Luigi | England, Robert | Knowland, Ralph | Lee, Peter | Wells, Joseph | Williamson,
Horace | Carpenter, Kenneth | Dalton, James | Wang, Samuel | Washburn, James | Carter, Sydney | Falk, Edward | Brown, Lamar | Carmichael, Peter | Kapelis, Zigurts | Melaragno, Michele |
Clement, Jerry | Waddell, Donald | Doruk, Teoman | Rowe, Geoffrey | Bray, Raymond Derwood
1958
Clemson School of Architecture Established
URBAN RENEWAL ERA BEGINS
1912
Association of
Collegiate Schools
of Architecture is
founded.
1907
Deutscher Werkbund is founded.
1909
Adolf Loos designs Goldmann &
Salatsch Building, Vienna.
1913
Cass Gilbert’s Woolworth Building, is the
tallest in the world.
circa 1916
Architecture Woodshop
1917
De Stijl
1914
Beaux-Arts model is abandoned at University
of Oregon.
1919
Bauhaus is founded by Walter Gropius.
1920
Constructivism
ALUMNI WORK
1957 Sputnik is launched.
1958 The LEGO toy brick is introduced.
1946
“Elements of Architecture” is listed again.
“Architectural Design” becomes freshman course.
Reinforced concrete, economics and sociology are
added to course listings.
Domestic architecture and fifth-year thesis are added
to course catalog.
1955
Harlan McClure becomes new
director of Department of
Architecture.
1948
Curriculum is modernized after new director John Gates visits Illinois,
Purdue, Carnegie Tech, Penn State, Yale, Cornell and Virginia.
Classical “Elements of Architecture” and “Descriptive Geometry” are
replaced by “Graphics,” and content of “Architectural Design” is changed.
“City Planning” is added to the course listing.
Student chapter of AIA produces
The Clemson Architect, student journal.
1923
Modernist theory of “pure
design” is promoted at
University of Michigan.
Dean
Harlan E McClure,
1971-84
The Villa
New Faculty
Clark, Aiken | Cetto, Max | Mooney, Kemp | Turner, Thomas Jr. | Witherspoon, Gayland |
McPeak, Thomas | Phillips, William | Gerster, Giuseppe | Eflin, Robert | Collins, Donald |
Varenhorst, Glenn | Egan, Martin | Gantt, Harvey | Hutchinson, David | Macgregor, Alexander |
Chartier, Robert | Fera, Cesare | Patterson, Gordon
1970
1970
First “Earth Day”
1962 The first Wal-Mart opens. 1964 The U.S. Civil Rights Act is signed.
1957
Harlan McClure
becomes secretary
of ACSA.
Full architecture
accreditation is
achieved.
First coordinated fifthyear class is held.
1958
School of Architecture is
established July 1, 1958,
with Harlan McClure as dean
1963
Harvey B. Gantt becomes
first African-American
student at Clemson.
School’s new mission refers to the
Vitruvian triad of firmness, commodity
and delight.
“Architectural Computations” is added
to course listings.
“Graphics” is replaced by “Basic
Design.”
L to R: Mac Ogburn, John
Oakley, Ted Petoskey
1963
Architecture students, including José Cabán
Lee Hall, named for Rudolph
Lee, opens.
1924
Gerrit Rietveld’s
Schröder House is
built.
1925
Walter Gropius’s Dessau
Bauhaus is completed.
Le Corbusier
publishes Vers une
architecture.
1927
Le Corbusier’s
Towards a New
Architecture is
translated.
1928
Adolf Loos designs
Villa Müller.
1930
Art Deco and
Streamline styles
are popularized.
Gayland B. Witherspoon
first head of architecture in
the new college
1971
College of Architecture Established
1969 The first man walks on the moon.
William Van Alen
designs Chrysler
Building.
1932
“Modern Architecture: International
Exhibition,” MOMA
1933
Josef Albers, formerly of
Bauhaus, becomes director of
Black Mountain College.
1929
Henry-Russell Hitchcock
coins term “international
style” in Modern
Architecture: Romanticism
and Reintegration.
Clemson
1935
Joseph Hudnut becomes
dean of Harvard School
of Design, bringing
together architecture,
landscape architecture,
and city and regional
planning.
Le Corbusier visits the
U.S.
1936
Hudnut invites Walter
Gropius to Harvard.
1938
Mies van der Rohe becomes head
of architecture department at
Chicago’s Armour Institute.
1941
Sigfried Giedion’s Space, Time
and Architecture is published.
1944
GI Bill supports veterans’ education,
expanding enrollments.
Anne Tyng is among first women to
graduate at Harvard Graduate School
of Design.
1937
F.L. Wright’s Fallingwater is built.
1947
J.M. Richards writes about
“The New Empiricism” and
modernist regionalism.
1948
Georgia Tech follows
the Harvard model
and declares a “shift
to modern.”
Riggs Hall drawing studio
1949
U.S. Housing Act
of 1949 funds slum
clearance.
The Architectural
Review launches the
Townscape movement.
1928 Clemson
Riggs Hall_Rudolph E. Lee
1950
Giedion, Mumford,
Wurster and
others promote
New Humanism
focused on regional
adaptations.
Architecture students practice
field sketching.
1955
Rowe and
Slutzky publish
“Transparency:
Literal and
Phenomenal.”
Robert Hunter (left) and Harold
Cooledge during Lee Hall construction
1959
CIAM is disbanded by
“Team 10” at Otterlo
meeting.
1952
Gropius resigns from Harvard
following conflicts with Hudnut
over architectural history and urban
culture.
1960
Kevin Lynch’s The
Image of the City is
published.
1961
Jane Jacobs’s The
Death and Life of
Great American Cities
is published.
1937
Long Hall
Rudolph Lee
David Watson and J.C. Littlejohn,
Clemson Field House construction
1940
Clemson Field House (now Fike Recreation Center)
Rudolph Lee
New emphasis is placed
on contributions to
building industry.
“Environmental
Technology” is added to
the curriculum.
1972
Departments of Design
Studies, Building Science,
Planning Studies, and
History & Visual Studies are
established.
1974
Louis Kahn receives Clemson’s Student with space
Tau Sigma Delta Award.
frame model
Joe Young, becomes head of S.C.
chapter of AIA.
1968
Jim Barker talks with classmates.
1975
First-year wire frame
project
1968
Steward Brand writes Whole Earth
Catalogue.
L to R: Frank Alexander, Charles
Carson, Mahmoud Maheronnaghsh,
Robert Dickenson
1964
“Architecture without Architects”
exhibition opens at MOMA.
Lee I_Harlan McClure
1961
Elizabeth Parks Booker becomes
the first woman to complete the
B.Arch. at Clemson.
1966
Robert Venturi writes
Complexity and Contradiction in
Architecture.
1969
Foreign study programs in Rome
are launched by Notre Dame and
University of Washington. (1970)
1972
Student Thom Penney presents
Beaufort Town Center.
Peter Lee with student Cynthia Davis
1967
Geddes and Spring write
A Study of Education for
Environmental Design.
1971
World Trade Center
is built.
Louis Kahn and Gayland B.
Witherspoon
1972
Demolition of Pruitt-Igoe
is later described by
Charles Jencks as “death
of modern architecture”
and beginning of
postmodernism.
1973
Venturi, Scott
Brown and Izenour’s
Learning from Las
Vegas is published.
1975
The architecture of the
Ecole des Beaux-Arts
exhibition opens at
MOMA.
The Sears Tower
is completed in
Chicago.
Yearbook photo of architecture students
1937
Sirrine Hall construction
1928
Riggs Hall
Rudolph Lee
1971
Architecture at Clemson
College of Architecture is
established with McClure
as dean.
McClure becomes
secretary of NAAB.
1957 Clemson
circa 1962
Architecture faculty group
portrait
1962-64
Joe Young lectures in Lee Hall studio.
Professors Gunnin, Ellner & Speer
during Lee Hall construction.
The M.Arch is
introduced as “the
first professional
degree.”
1967
“4 + 2” program is
established.
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring,
inaugurates environmental
movement.
Riggs Hall studio
1931
Shreve, Lamb and
Harmon design
Empire State
Building.
The B.A.
(preprofessional) is
inaugurated.
1965
Students, including
Harvey Gantt, work on a
small house project.
1962
Allison Smithson, Team X Primer
Vernon Hodges talks with students.
Cadets study in the library in Sikes Hall.
circa 1917
Cadets taking a break in Holtzendorff Hall
1956
Clemson Architectural
Foundation is
launched.
“Visual Arts Lab” is
added to the course
list.
Engineering Building
1916
YMCA/Holtzendorff Hall
Rudolph Lee
1943
Enrollment begins to plunge
as students and faculty join
the war effort.
1930
Architecture woodshop
1913
Otto Wagner publishes
Modern Architecture.
1917
Convenient and Attractive School
Buildings
Rudolph Lee
(from Special Collections)
1935
Five-year Bachelor of Architecture is
offered in addition to four-year B.S.
1926
Mechanical Hall is destroyed by fire.
1910
F.L. Wright creates Robie
House.
1914
Rural School Buildings
Rudolph Lee
1933
Department of Architecture
is created with
Rudolph Lee as
department head.
1928
New engineering building
(Riggs Hall) is completed
1918
Architecture studio in Mechanical Hall
1889
Eiffel Tower rises 1,063 feet over Paris.
1932
Architecture Division
(Dept. of Engineering) is
established.
“Classical Elements of
Architecture” course and
French are dropped.
1921
Engineering drafting room
1846
American architect Richard Morris Hunt, founder of AIA, is trained
at École des Beaux Arts.
Genoa
1975-95
Guiseppe Gerster; annual visiting critic/Switzerland
GENOA 1972
The Villa
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Department of
Engineering’s Drawing
and Design Division is
established.
ARCHITECTURAL TRENDS 1865
First American school of architecture
1940
Acting Head
Emery Aaron Gunnin
1954-1955
New Faculty
Tupper, James | Fernow, Bernice | Petroff, Gilmer | Haigler, Jess | St. Hubert, Robert | McCulloch,
John | Gates, John | Dillon, Robert | Longstreet, Robert | McMillin, Harry | Putnam, Samuel |
Shepard, Wayne | Wilkins, Richard | Booker, Melzar
New Faculty
Fitz Patrick, Thomas | Hoffman, Gilbert | McCulloch, John | Parrot
| Wiss, Henry
1933
Department
Clemson Department
of Architecture
of Architecture
Program Established
Established
Genoa
1973
Harlan McClure, the CAF and key donors create
Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and
Urban Studies, Genoa, Italy.
Prof. Cesare Fera, director, 1973-95
President
Robert Cook Edwards
1958-1979
Head
John Hobart Gates
1948-1954
Head
Rudolph E. Lee
1933-1948
1976
Convention Facility for Hilton Head, S.C.
Ashby Gressette
Architecture + Health
1970
Program has first official graduates.
Architecture + Health
1968-1980
The HFP&DS works with the S.C. Department
of Mental Health to plan, design and implement
the S.C. Community Mental Health System. It
became know as the “Village System” for its innovative concept. It included the design of the
Alcohol and Drug Addiction Center, Village A in
Columbia and Village B in Anderson.
CLEMSON 1957
Riggs Hall
1912
Already looking beyond state borders, Rudolph Lee (1874-1959) established architectural education
at Clemson to answer “an increasing demand in the South for men trained in architectural design,
building construction and allied subjects.” Like this mission, Lee had Southern roots: Born in nearby
Anderson, S.C., he was an engineering graduate of Clemson’s first class of 1896. However, studies
also took him to Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania. The combination of polytechnic and
Beaux-Arts training and awareness of national developments in architectural education informed the
development of degree programs and faculty hires during Lee’s tenure, which spanned from 1896
to 1948. During these years, faculty were trained at Clemson and Northeast schools, like Lee, and
also in Europe. Similar to Lee’s description of his new engineering building (now Riggs Hall) in 1927,
architecture at Clemson was primarily a “Southern product, largely of our own state materials.”
1970
Dormitory Design
John T. Jeffers
1968
YMCA, Charleston, S.C.
Robert C. London
1963
Town Plan, Beaufort, S.C.
1962
Catholic Church Complex, Easley, S.C.
Jackie H. Lee
Lee Hall soon after completion
1941
Outdoor Theater
Leon LeGrand ’15/WPA
1958
Lee Hall courtyard
Harlan E. McClure
1961
Architects’ Office
Tarleton & Tankersley, Architects
1965
Terminal at Columbia Metropolitan
Airport
Phelps Bultman, AIA
1966
Plantation Club-Carkern
Wiggins and Associates
1969
Duke Visitors’ Center
Freeman, Wells and Major Architects
1970
News-Piedmont Offices
and Plant
J.E. Sirrine Company
1970
Miller F. Whittaker Library
Lyles, Bissett, Carlisle & Wolff
GENOA CENTER
ESTABLISHED
1975
First Federal Savings & Loan
Freeman, Wells and Major Architects
STUDENT WORK
Dedicated to the Students and Faculty of Clemson Architecture,
Past, Present and Future
1976
Convention Facility for Hilton Head, S.C.
Ashby Gressette
1976
Convention Facility for Hilton Head, S.C.
Ashby Gressette
1980
Charleston County Courthouse
Michael O’Brien
FLUID CAMPUS
1982
Life Enhancement Center, Charleston, S.C.
M Manoucherr Zakariai
1986
Space Coast Science Center
D. Wayne Rogers
1987
Jacksonville Fla. Maritime Museum
Gregory C. Sullivan
1990
A Political Center for Future China
Qian Xuelei
Genoa
1982 Mark Carroll (CU ’78, ’80) joins
Renzo Piano Building Workshop.
Clemson
A 1970s addition is made to accommodate the expansion of academic
programs.
Architecture + Health
1988
George Means retires, and Ken Russo takes over as
an interim director of the program.
Charleston
1988
First class at the Clemson University Architecture
Center at the College of Charleston.
Bill Pelham and Eric Holmberg read
in the Villa.
Antoine Predock and Jim Barker
PRESIDENTS
DEANS
CHAIRMEN
FACULTY
President
Bill Lee Atchley
1979-1985
President
Walter Thompson Cox
1985-1986
CLEMSON 1975
Lee II
1980
Left to right: Francis Chamberlain, David
Allison, Bill Taberson and Thom Mayne
1988
John Jacques becomes director of
architecture program.
CLEMSON, 1991
Grad Tower
John Jacques
Charleston
1995
The Clemson Architecture Center
begins sharing the facility at 12
Bull Street with the College of
Charleston’s new Center for Historic
Preservation.
Fluid Campus
1998-2000
College of Architecture Center at the
College of Charleston
Ray Huff, director
CHARLESTON, 1988
12 Bull Street
New Faculty
Bainbridge, Robert | Eubanks, Francis | Hungerford, Phillip | Hurt, Jane | Lane, Virginia | Lindsay, Alfred | London, James | Moffa, Rudee
| Moncure, Jo Ann | Pearson, David | Schuette, Stephen | Wall, John | Barker, James | Faoro, Daniel | Foster, Margaret | Hogan, Robert |
LeBlanc, Louis | Rice, Matthew | Taylor, James | Corley, Greg | Crout, Roy Jr | LeBlanc, Janet | Mumford, John | Norman, Herbert | Powers,
Whitney | Silance, Robert | Tai, Lolly | Varkonda, Linda | Brooks, Kerry | Chamberlain, Frances | Ellis, Marsh
New Faculty
Cabán, José | Dimond, Thomas | Nocks, Barry | Killingsworth, Edgar | Kishimoto, Yuji | Craig, Lynn | Cross, Sydney | Walker,
Gerald | Hutton, Dale | Miller, Robert | Pflieger, Kenneth |
Humphries, Ann | Liska, Roger | Willoughby, Alan
New Faculty
Ersenkal, Olgun | Morales, Jorge | Finch, Michael | Stockham, James | Hudson, Mark | Mulholland, Janet | Rook, Benjamin
| Vollendorf, Dean | Jacques, John | Holschneider, Johannes | Norman, Richard | Davis, Martin | Harritos, Harry | Vatalaro,
Michael | Drummond, Robert | Huff, Raymond | Roth, Frederick | Polk, George Jr. | Book, Norman | Webb, Hugh | Addison,
Clarence | Mitchell, Charlie | Matthew, Robert Jr. | Voelker, Evelyn | Ottolenghi, Marinella
Dean
James Barker
1986
Dean
Lamar H. Brown, acting dean (1984)
Paul D. Pearson, dean
(1984-1986)
Ken Russo becomes director of
architecture program.
President
Max Lennon
1986-1994
Genoa
1993
Aldo Rossi Symposium and Carlo
Felice Theater are completed.
Architecture + Health
1990
David Allison is hired as director,
redesigns the curriculum and changes
the program name to the graduate
program.
Genoa
1988-94
Distinguished Visiting Critics Program is established
at all campus locations. Antoine Predock, Thom
Mayne, Sambo Mockbee, Charlie Menefee (Clark +
Menefee), Merrill Elam (Scoggin/Elam/Bray).
1998
An Architecture for the Small Community Hospital
Re-Inventing an Institution
Paul Doyle
1991
Thermae, A Purifier of Water and Urban Society
Qian Xuelei
2010
Chapel, First Place, Air Force Village Chapel Design Competition
Kyle Keaffaber and Jonathan Edens
Genoa
1995
James G. Thomas becomes first
architect-in-residence. Silvia Carroll is
elevated to administrative director.
Genoa
1998
Pat Conroy is first writer-in-residence.
Center incorporates B.A. and B.S.
students. Event for 25th anniversary is
integral to all programs.
Fluid Campus
Silvia Carroll is named director of
Charles E. Daniel Center, Genoa.
Charleston
1999
Graduate students are permitted
to study at the Clemson
Architecture Center for the first
time.
Architecture + Health
2000
Dina Battisto, Ph.D., is hired by the
SoA as its first research-focused faculty member to help build a research
base for the Architecture + Health
program.
BARCELONA, 1999
Charleston
2000-10
Rob Miller is named director of CAC
in Charleston.
Charleston
2003
National Council of Architectural Registration Board awards the NCARB
Jury Prize to the CAC.C for the “Upper Concord Street Neighborhood.”
CHARLESTON, 2000
20 Franklin Street
Charleston
2004
National Council of
Architectural Registration Board awards the
NCARB Jury Prize to the
CAC.C for the “Borough
Project.”
Architecture + Health
2006
Stephen Verderber, D.Arch./RA, is hired as the
third faculty member in the Architecture + Health
program.
President
Constantine William Curris
1995-1999
Interim head
Don Collins
1994-1995
Chair
José Cabán
1995-2005
José Cabán
New Faculty
Maher, Michael | Laurence, Peter | Green, Keith | Andrews, Brian | Pastre, David | Jacques, Annemarie H.
1989 The Berlin Wall falls.
1988
Clemson Architecture Center in
Charleston is founded.
Dean
Janice Schach
2000-2007
Interim Chair
Robert Hogan
2005-2006
New Faculty
Erdman, Jori | Brown, Lori | Zell, Mo | Jones, Victor | del Real, Patricio | Rael, Ron | San Fratello, Virginia | Verderber, Stephen | Skinner, Martha | Hecker,
Doug | Bruhns, Robert | Mills, Cris | Lettow, Ash | Chen, Chong-Zi | Nadenicek, Dan | Costa, Xavier | Bray, Lloyd | Mooney, Kemp | Battisto, Dina | Thomas,
James | Garland, James B.| Jennings, Ashley | Ferrick, Justin | Roldan, Miguel
New Faculty
Hyslop, Kevin | Lee, David | Blouin, Vincent | Verderber, Stephen | Heine, Ulrike | Savory, Thomas | Sill, Bernhard | Harding, Daniel | Montilla, Armando |
Hambright-Belue, Sallie | Gibson, Reginald | Cavanagh, Edward | Mitchell, Lauren | Nocella, David
2000
Chair
Edward “Ted” Cavanagh
2006-2008
2012
2012
Bark Park Design Build, McClure
Sustainable Lab, Winning Project, ACSA 2011-2012 I
Award Winner
nternational Sustainable Laboratories Design Competition
Elissa Bostain, Megan Craig, Jason
Caitlin Ranson and Dianah Katzenberger
Drews, James Graham and Adrian
Mora
Charleston
2010
Ray Huff is named interim director
of CAC in Charleston, and made
permanent director in 2011.
Charleston
2008
CAC.C wins NCARB Jury Prize for
Creative Integration of Practice +
Education for the project “Localizing
Global Climate Change.”
Charleston
2006
CAC.C is awarded National American Institute of
Architects Award for 2006 Best Mentoring Practices, one of only four such awards in the country.
2000-12
Fluid Campus idea emerges.
Lee Hall, CAC.G, CAC.C, CAC.B are
seamlessly connected.
President
James Frazier Barker
1999 to present
Architecture + Health
2008
The Architecture + Health program
receives an NCARB Award for the Integration of Practice and Academia.
2006-2012
The Architecture + Health program engages in a
series of sponsored projects through NXT for the
Dept of Defense totaling over $2.5 million.
Genoa
2000
President
Phillip Hunter Prince
1994-1995
New Faculty
Buonaccorsi, J.G. | Burton, Joseph | Gooden, Mario | Harwood, Pamela | Lowrey, Robert | Meyer, Jonathan | Williams, James | Alexander, Marvolyn |
Allison, David | Bingenheimer, Kirt | Brown, Danita | Collins, Bradford | Cowan-Ricks, Carrel | Houston, David | Sammons, Thomas | Sullivan, N.A. |
Tabberson, William | Baldwin, Aaron | Leebreck, Gilbert | McGill, Raymond | Murff, Warren | Piper, Christine | Wilkerson, Julie | Woodward, Denise |
Cunningham, Miller | Yilmaz, Umit
1990
1998
Thesis
Amy Tucker
Dean
Clifton “Chip” Egan
2007-2010
2012
Mediascape Pendleton Library, First Place,
AIAS/Kawneer Design Competition
Laura Boykin
CLEMSON 2012
Lee III
Publication Committee
Nick Barrett, Illustration
Nick Collins, Research
Jeannie Davis, Editorial
Cheryl DeSellier, Graphic Design
Kathy Edwards, Research
Genoa
2013
40th Anniversary Event
Villa at 40!
Interim Dean
Richard “Rick” Goodstein
2010-2011
Chair
Kate Schwennsen
2010-present
Dean
Richard “Rick” Goodstein
2011-present
Kate Schwennsen
New Faculty
Schwennsen, Katherine | Ault, Nicholas | Golda-Pongratz, Kathrin | Albright, Dustin | Ersoy, Ufuk | Barrios, Carlos | Satoh, Junichi | Mendez, Clarissa
2010
9/11/2001 Terrorist attacks are launched on the U.S.
1999
1995
2001 Operation Enduring Freedom begins in Afghanistan.
Barcelona
Architecture
Center is established.
College
of
Architecture,
Arts
and
Humanities
is
formed.
1979 The Sony Walkman is introduced.
1981 The IBM PC is developed.
1990-1991 Persian Gulf War
1992 The Cold War ends.
2003 U.S./Iraq war begins.
2005 Hurricane Katrina hits the U.S.
2008 Barack Obama is elected president.
1985 Hole in the Ozone layer is discovered.
College
of
Architecture
is
renamed
School
of
Architecture.
2003 Facebook is created.
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ARCHITECTURE AT CLEMSON
1976
“Basic Design” is replaced by
“Architectural Analysis” course.
1981
Additional language course,
“Global View,” is added.
1984
Paul David Pearson becomes dean
of College of Architecture.
“Architectural Analysis” is
replaced by “Design Studies.”
1988
“Design Theory” course is added
to curriculum, and social science
course becomes requirement.
1985
1+3 curriculum
replaces 2+2+2
system.
Landscape architecture program is
founded.
“Architectural Applications of
Computer Science” is added to
curriculum.
“Principles of Environmental Design”
and interdisciplinary interaction
B.S. in pre-architecture are offered in
addition to B.A., B.Arch. and M.Arch.
1980
Peter Lee and Fred Moore
1977
Leon Krier and Students
1989
Writing in the AIA journal Architecture,
Robert Ivy describes Clemson as “an
architectural Eden.”
1990
Studio + Theory +
Technology + Practice
model and interdisciplinary
thesis required for M.Arch.
degree.
1991
“Environmental Systems” becomes a
required course.
1992
Renewed emphasis is placed on
liberal arts course work.
Master of Science in architecture
degree is launched.
Bachelor’s and master’s programs
adopt collaborative associations
with the humanities and the arts.
1995
College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities
is formed with James Barker as dean.
1993
M.Arch. becomes required
professional degree in South Carolina.
1998
College of Architecture Center at the
College of Charleston moves from
Bull Street to Franklin Street.
1995
College of Architecture is renamed School of
Architecture with José Cabán as chair.
2007
“Introduction to Architecture” is added
to first year.
2002
M.Arch. thesis is replaced by “Research
Studio.”
“Collaborative Studio” at second year is
called “Architectural Foundations.”
Off-campus studies become a
requirement.
1989
Charleston program is founded with
Ray Huff as director.
1984
Kirk Craig and students
1987
Hal Cooledge and Teoman Doruk (extreme left)
1988
Dale Hutton, Dean Barker, Don Collins,
George Means and Peter Lee at a
graduate student review
1982
Grad students in Lee I
ARCHITECTURAL TRENDS
1979
Aga Kahn Program for Islamic
Architecture is founded at MIT.
1977
Blanche Lemco van Ginkel becomes first
female dean, University of Toronto.
1980
Kenneth Frampton
publishes Modern
Architecture: A Critical
History.
1981
“Critical Regionalism” coined
by Alexander Tzonis and Liane
Lefaivre.
E. Boyer and A. Levine publish A Quest for Common
Learning.
Energy studies in Building Laboratory,
University of Oregon
1988
Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition, MOMA
1985
Student in Genoa.
1984
Harley Badders and Lynn Craig
1983
Donald Schoen publishes The Reflective
Practitioner.
1975
1985
Christian Norberg-Schulz
publishes The Concept of
Dwelling.
First class of Barcelona program celebrates at Barcelona Pavilion.
1990
E. Boyer publishes Scholarship
Reconsidered.
Left to right: Dean Barker, Harvey Gantt, Ted
Papas and Clemson President Max Lennon
Christian Norborg-Schultz, author of
“Concept of Dwelling,” visits Lee Hall for a
symposium.
1993
Congress for New Urbanism is founded.
1995
Form Z Software is released.
Rural Studio is founded.
Rem Koolhaas publishes SMLXL.
1996
E. Boyer and L.D. Mitgang publish
Building Community: A New Future for
Architecture Education and Practice.
1997
The Petronas Twin Towers are
completed in Kuala Lumpur.
Landscape Urbanism approach based on
collaborative work and practice-oriented research
grows.
1982
Autocad released.
ALUMNI WORK
Clemson
1978
Penney House
Thom Penney/LS3P
1984
Sibley Center
Craig Gaulden Davis
1972
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Stubbs Muldrow Herin
1987
The Menil Collection
Piano
1987
Office
Craig Gaulden Davis
“If architects want to be influential, we need to get out of our
ateliers and connect with the curriculum, engage the culture and
serve our larger communities.”
— James F. Barker, FAIA
2008, Chronicle of Higher Education
2000
“Architecture and Pragmatism” conference at MOMA.
1991 Clemson
2010
Global Outlook.
Published by the Clemson University School of Architecture and the Clemson University Digital Press. For more
information, contact the School of Architecture at 3-130 Lee Hall.
Clemson, South Carolina 29634-0503.
Lee Hall III, designed by Thomas Phifer (’75, M ’77) in collaboration with McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture receives a
national honor award for design achievement from the American Institute of Architects.
clemson.edu/architecture
Copyright 2013 by Clemson University
ISBN 978-0-9890826-4-8
90s Tower
Lee 2_
1989
Charleston Cottages
Chris Rose
1993
Richland County Public Library
Ashby Gressette/Stevens & Wilkinson
1992
Genoa Harbor Renovation
Piano
1992
Beach house
Ray Huff/Huff-Gooden
1996
Aurora Place
Mark Carroll/Renzo Piano Building Workshop
1993
Richland County Public Library
Ashby Gressette/Stevens & Wilkinson
2000
South Carolina Governor’s School for Arts and
Humanities
Freeman & Major Architects
1999
Kent Court
Lisa Lanni/McMillan Pazdan Smith
Tim Keesee (’15)
Peter Laurence
Michelle McLane
Armando Montilla
Joy Newberry (’14)
Valerie Or (’14)
Sandra Parker
David Pastre
Jerry Reel
Kate Schwennsen
Rob Silance (’73, M ’81)
Nick Tafel (‘14)
Ellis Taylor (’14)
Julie Wilkerson (‘90)
Acknowledgments
All images copyright of Clemson University, Clemson University School of Architecture or their
respective creators. The editors gratefully acknowledge and thank Clemson University Libraries Special
Collections and the students, faculty and alumni who contributed images to this publication. Every
effort has been made to trace all copyright-holders, but if any have been inadvertently overlooked, the
publisher will be pleased to make arrangements at the first opportunity.
Students at Middleton Inn, S.C.
1979
Students in Lee Hall studio
2+2+2 Curriculum
1972
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Stubbs Muldrow Herin
2000
Undergraduate program responds to
general education requirements.
1999
Barcelona program is founded
by José Cabán, Xavier Costa
and Miguel Roldan.
Centennial Planning Committee
David Allison (’78, M ’82)
Nick Ault
Nick Barrett (’13)
José Cabán (’67)
Lynn Craig (’67)
Jeannie Davis
Cheryl DeSellier
Kathy Edwards
Ufuk Ersoy
Rick Goodstein
Daniel Harding (’94)
Ulrike Heine
Bob Hogan
Ray Huff (’71)
John Jacques (’70)
Ulrike Heine, Editorial
Peter Laurence, Research and Editorial
Sandra Parker, Editorial
Kate Schwennsen, Editorial
Ellis Taylor, Research
2004
Eliot Noyes’ Brown Residence Transformation
Joeb Moore + Partners, Architects
2001
Blackbaud Corporate Headquarters
Stubbs Muldrow Herin
1999
2005
High Museum Expansion
Piano
?
Barcelona
2010
Exterior meadow view of Bridge House
Joeb Moore + Partners, Architects
2007
Chicago State University Convocation Center
Schlossman Loebel Hackl
2008
Exterior approach to Spiral House
Joeb Moore + Partners, Architects
2012
Clemson
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
2011
College of DuPage Culinary Arts and Hospitality Center
Schlossman Loebel Hackl
2012
Charleston ENT West Ashley
Stubbs Muldrow Herin
DIGITAL PRESS
Lee III_Thomas Phifer and Partners