A 2.6 Deans of the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, 1881-2003
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      
Bernard Tschumi 1988        
*Acting Director of the School of Architecture
**Acting Dean of the School of Architecture for 1933-34, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture for 1934-35
***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.
****Acting Dean of the School of Architecture