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Clemson University TigerPrints Environmental Studies Clemson University Digital Press 2015 100 Years of Clemson Architecture: Southern Roots + Global Reach Proceedings Ufuk Ersoy Dana Anderson Kate Schwennsen Follow this and additional works at: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cudp_environment Recommended Citation Ersoy, Ufuk; Anderson, Dana; and Schwennsen, Kate, "100 Years of Clemson Architecture: Southern Roots + Global Reach Proceedings" (2015). Environmental Studies. 7. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cudp_environment/7 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Clemson University Digital Press at TigerPrints. It has been accepted for inclusion in Environmental Studies by an authorized administrator of TigerPrints. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 100 YEARS OF CLEMSON ARCHITECTURE: SOUTHERN ROOTS + GLOBAL REACH PROCEEDINGS 100 YEARS OF CLEMSON ARCHITECTURE SOUTHERN ROOTS GLOBAL REACH PROCEEDINGS + EDITED BY UFUK ERSOY DANA ANDERSON KATE SCHWENNSEN Copyright 2015 by Clemson University ISBN 978-1-942954-07-1 Published by Clemson University Press for the Clemson University School of Architecture. For more information, contact the School of Architecture at 3-130 Lee Hall, Clemson, South Carolina 29634-0503. School of Architecture: www.clemson.edu/architecture Clemson University Press: www.clemson.edu/cedp/press Produced at Clemson University Press using Adobe Creative Suite. Editorial Assistants: Karen Stewart, Charis Chapman Printed by Ricoh USA. 100 YEARS OF CLEMSON ARCHITECTURE: SOUTHERN ROOTS + GLOBAL REACH PROCEEDINGS Preface ........................................................................................................................................vi From Southern Roots to Distant Horizons, Peter L. Laurence, PhD .............................................1 Trends in Architectural Education at Clemson University, Ufuk Ersoy, PhD ................................. 2 e Villa at 40! ..........................................................................................................................10 Snapshots from a Professor in Residence, Robert Miller, AIA ............................................... 11 e Fluid Campus in the Twenty-First Century, Kate Schwennsen, FAIA .............................23 Charleston at 25! .......................................................................................................................30 Architecture for Health ............................................................................................................. 31 Grassroots Exhibition ................................................................................................................32 Southern Roots + Global Reach: 100 Years of Clemson Architecture Exhibition ....................... 38 Centennial Symposium: e Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization ..............51 Southern Roots + Global Reach: Reections on a eme, Peter L. Laurence, PhD ...............52 Transmutations of Place, Marlon Blackwell, FAIA ............................................................... 54 Work + Work, Merrill Elam ................................................................................................70 Native Places, Frank Harmon, FAIA ....................................................................................74 Peaks and Valleys of the Flat World: Regionalism in the Age of Globalization, Liane Lefaivre, PhD and Alexander Tzonis ..................................................................... 83 Panel Discussion, Liane Lefaivre, PhD (Moderator), Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, Merrill Elam, Frank Harmon, FAIA and Alexander Tzonis (Panelists) ...................................................92 Beaux-Arts Ball ........................................................................................................................100 Centennial Lectures .................................................................................................................101 Notes ...................................................................................................................................... 102 Contributors ........................................................................................................................... 104 Image Credits ..........................................................................................................................106 v PREFACE his book documents most of the events held in 2013 under the title of 100 Years of Clemson Architecture: Southern Roots + Global Reach to celebrate the Clemson University School of Architecture’s Centennial. e celebration events started in March with a four-campus Tmeeting to honor the fortieth anniversary of the Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies in Genoa, Italy, founded in 1973 (e Villa at 40) and the thirteenth anniver- sary of the Barcelona Architecture Center (Barcelona at 13). In May, the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston (CACC) hosted sessions of the South Carolina American Institute of Ar- chitects (SCAIA) Annual Conference in honor of its twenty-fth anniversary (CACC at 25). In August, events continued with the “2013 South Atlantic Region Architecture for Health Annual Conference and School of Architecture Centennial Symposia,” organized to celebrate the forty- fth year of the Architecture and Health Program (A+H at 45). e Centennial Symposium of “e Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization” and Beaux-Arts Ball in October were the nal events concluding the centennial celebrations of “Southern Roots + Global Reach.” roughout the 2013–14 academic year, two exhibitions, “Southern Roots + Global Reach: 100 Years of Clemson Architecture” and “Grassroots,” and a series of lectures given by some accom- plished alumni and former professors of the school accompanied these events. vi FROM SOUTHERN ROOTS TO DISTANT HORIZONS* Peter L. Laurence, PhD ince its rst year of instruction in 1913, architectural education at Clemson has been mind- ful of its geographies—its connections and relationships to both the state of South Carolina and to the wider world. Already looking beyond state borders, Rudolph E. Lee (1874–1959) Sestablished architectural education at Clemson to answer “an increasing demand in the South for men trained in architectural design, building construction and allied subjects.”1 Like this mission, Lee had Southern roots: born in nearby Anderson, South Carolina, he was an engineering graduate of Clemson’s rst class of 1896. However, studies also took him to Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania. e combination of polytechnic and Beaux-Arts training and awareness of national developments in architectural education informed the development of degree programs and fac- ulty 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.” 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.” Riggs would be home for the Department of Architecture 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 E. McClure, who served as director and dean from 1955 to 1984, Lee Hall symbolized the modernization of the school, the college and the state. e move from Beaux-Arts Riggs Hall to modernist Lee Hall—a shift, in ret- rospect, from one international style to another—did not change the school’s geographic networks. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Harlan E. 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 ad- vanced 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 rst satellite of the school’s “Fluid Campus.” e decades following McClure’s direction have seen the continued growth of the school, in Clemson and beyond, under new leadership. e Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston, cel- ebrating its twenty-fth year, was established in 1988 by then-Dean James F. Barker, FAIA (’70). A decade later, Department Chair José R. Cabán (’67) established the school’s third urban center in Barcelona, Spain. Forty years since the rst 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 uidly 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. * An earlier version of this text was published

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