| A 2.6 Deans of the School
of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, 1881-2003 |
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| Name |
Year Began |
Year Left |
Tenure |
Previous Position |
Subsequent Position |
| William Robert Ware |
1881 |
1903 |
22 |
MIT Faculty |
Retirement and Professor Emeritus |
| Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin |
1903 |
1912 |
9 |
Faculty |
Faculty |
| Austin Willard Lord |
1912 |
1915 |
3 |
Practicing architect in New York City |
Practicing architect |
| William Henry Carpenter* |
1915 |
1919 |
4 |
Associate Dean of the Graduate Faculty |
Provost |
| William Alciphron Boring |
1919 |
1933 |
14 |
Professor in Charge of Design |
Retirement |
| Joseph Hudnut** |
1933 |
1935 |
2 |
Director of Fine Arts at UVA |
Dean of Architecture at Harvard |
| Leopold Arnaud |
1937 |
1959 |
22 |
Faculty and Hudnut’s assistant |
Retirement |
| Charles Ralph Colbert |
1960 |
1963 |
3 |
Practicing architect in New Orleans |
Semi-retirement (at LSU in 1975) |
| Kenneth Alexander Smith*** |
1963 |
1972 |
9 |
Associate Dean of the School of Architecture |
Retirement |
| James Stewart Polshek |
1972 |
1987 |
15 |
Practicing architect in New York City |
Practicing architect in New York City |
| Richard Schaffer**** |
1987 |
1988 |
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| Bernard Tschumi |
1988 |
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| *Acting Director of the School of
Architecture |
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| **Acting Dean of the School of Architecture
for 1933-34, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture for 1934-35 |
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| ***Acting Dean from 1963
to July 1, 1965, at which time he was appointed Dean of the School and the
chairmanships of architecture, urban planning, and architectural |
| technology were created. |
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| ****Acting Dean of the School of Architecture |
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