SIX LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE. The Scammon Lectures for 1915 Published for the Art Institute of Chicago

by Ralph Adams Cram

Six Lectures On The Scammon Lectures At The Art Institute Of Chicago 1917 Hardcover Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas Hastings, and Claude Bragdon Used, Acceptable University Press of Chicago Date of 1917 Hard Cover Fair The beginnings of Gothic art and The culmination of Gothic architecture, by Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942) Principles of architectural composition and Modern architecture, by Thomas Hastings (1860-1929) Organic architecture and The language of form, by Claude Fayette Bragdon (1866-1946) The lectures presented in this volume comprise the eleventh series delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago on the Scammon foundation. The Scammon Lectureship is established on an ample basis by the bequest of Mrs. Maria Sheldon Scammon, who died in 1901. The will prescribes that these lectures shall be upon the history, theory, and practice of the fine arts (meaning thereby the graphic and plastic arts), by persons of distinction or authority on the subject on which they lecture, such lectures to be primarily for the benefit of the students of the Art Institute, and secondarily for members and other persons. The lectures are known as "The Scammon Lectures."

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Published January 1, 1917

About the author

Ralph Adams Cram (December 16, 1863 – September 22, 1942) was a prolific and influential American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings, often in the Gothic Revival style. Cram & Ferguson and Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson are partnerships in which he worked.