College of Architecture, Design, and Construction Records
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials transferred from the College of Architecture and Design at Auburn University. There are drawings created as student projects and various newspaper clippings. There are materials associated with Urban Studio, an outreach program. The collection also contains building plans and photographs of the construction of the Yarbrough House in Montrose, Alabama which was designed by E. Fay Jones.
Dates
- 1917 - 2013
Biographical / Historical
The College of Architecture, Design and Construction began in 1907 as a curriculum in architecture in the Civil Engineering Department. The Department of Architecture was established in the School of Engineering in 1912. In 1927, the School of Architecture and Applied Arts was formed. A distinctive achievement of Auburn’s architecture program was the graduation of several women as early as the 1920s.
A program in Industrial Design was established in the Art Department in the 1930s. Landscape Architecture and Interior Design programs created in the 1930s became part of the Architecture Department, as did the new program in Building Construction in 1942. In 1996, the school became the College of Architecture, Design and Construction (CADC). The Graphic Design program joined CADC and the Department of Industrial Design in 2007, and the department became the School of Industrial + Graphic Design in 2013.
In 2018, more than 1,200 students were enrolled in CADC’s graduate and undergraduate programs. (source: cadc.auburn.edu)
Extent
40.75 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Finding aid organization
This finding aid is organized by accessions. Each accession represents an addition to the collection. Each accession also represents a transfer of physical and legal custody of archival materials from the donor(s) to Auburn University Special Collections and Archives.
Processing Information
Accession 18-029 processed by Lisa Glasscock. Accession 23-036 processed by Jacob Kachelhofer
- Title
- Guide to the Auburn University College of Architecture, Design, and Construction Records
- Subtitle
- Record Group 457
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- Lisa Glasscock
- Date
- November 15, 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Auburn University Special Collections and Archives Repository
Auburn University
Ralph Brown Draughon Library
231 Mell Street
Auburn Alabama 36849
334-844-1732
archives@auburn.edu
