It is very close.

Thank you.

I'm not sure probably done and
I'm very well thank you.

Leslie.

I guess I'm here because I've
been at Georgia Tech for

about one third of the centennial
years themselves so.

About four and
a half years ago I was completing.

My book on Bernard may back at
another college Principia college and

Centennials were very much
on my mind the joke was

that it took almost a centennial
to write that book.

It was almost that bad because it started
as a dissertation in one nine hundred

seventy three at Cornell and took thirty
one years to appear as a as a book

I had missed the centennial at Principia
school which it had been established

initially and eight hundred ninety eight
the college portion of the institution

dating from the one nine hundred twenty S.
It's true that the one nine hundred ninety

eight centennial of Principia prompted me
to take them a back material off the shelf

and dust it off and put it into shape for
publication in book form and

that I found such a sympathetic
publisher is one of the joys of my life.

Several years ago I was also thinking
about other Centennials I was president

of the nineteenth century Studies
Association an interdisciplinary academic

society which interesting we enough
was founded here in Atlanta.

Some twenty five years earlier and
considering a venue for

the twenty fifth Annual Meeting of the
nineteenth century Studies Association.

And I was thinking generally
about anniversaries the year was

two thousand and four I had already
missed the centennial of the death of

William Morris who had died in
eight hundred ninety six or

John Ruskin who had died in one thousand
nine hundred in two thousand and

one and I reminded the society
that both Queen Victoria and

Verity died in two thousand nine
hundred run so for the two thousand and

one centennial of the society
the thematic conference

had a disproportionate number of papers on
opera and on nineteenth century music and

a few studies of the old queen herself but
for two thousand and four it became

my excuse to bring the nineteenth century
group to my hometown of St Louis.

Because as one considers
Centennials two thousand and

four was the centennial
of the night to know for

Olympics held in St Louis and the nineteen
zero four St Louis World's Fair.

The latter indeed of course was
celebrating its own centennial because

the World's Fair was in St Louis in one
thousand four in order to celebrate

the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase
and the Lewis and Clark expedition.

So it seemed to me there was much to learn

when digging around history
at Centennial time.

We had as an example in St Louis
a special session in a St Louis church

the church had dated from one
thousand four and to do the right of

the congregation we helped organize
a centennial concert whose program.

Repeated the musical program which
had been performed one hundred years

earlier when the church organ was first
dedicated in early two thousand nine

hundred five in researching that
dedicates Roy organ concert we discovered

that the organist who performed it in one
thousand zero five was a young protege

who currently had been serving as
the organist in the Music Festival Hall of

the St Louis World's Fair and
for that Derek a totally true.

Concert in one thousand and five they were
going to head selected some music written

by his nineteenth century music
teacher a man who wrote that piece in

order to dedicate another organ his own
organ because he was the organist at

Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and
so the extraordinary

historical trade on ferreted were the
result that our academic society meeting

in St Louis in two thousand and four to
celebrate several anniversaries experience

the memorable evening in a noteworthy
venue of architecture and music.

So Centennials I think
are wonderful events.

It's too bad they only
happen every hundred years.

So back in two thousand and four I started
mentioning to Alan Dunham Jones and

to Tom Galloway that two thousand and

eight was the centennial of
architecture at Georgia Tech.

And I had a number of projects were
underway for which the timing seemed right

to think of them to some
degree as Centennial projects.

The first was a blip then nearing
completion which was already rival in

the middle back study which took thirty
one years to complete this new book was on

Francis Palmer Smith and conversations
about this with Henry Howard Smith Francis

a son I had an issue did way back in
the early one nine hundred ninety S..

That book was finished in two thousand and
seven.

Although various events have conspired
to delay its publication including

the current economic crisis.

Although University of press.

Scuse me University of Georgia personnel
tells me that copy editing in the schedule

in for March so who knows what we're sort
of aiming for two thousand and nine.

Now either status of Georgia Tech campus
architecture the work of sculpture

Julian hope terrorists and
the architectural work of Bush Brown.

Gailey and Heffernan had
produced conference papers and

a few articles but seemed also
to have missed the centennial in

the case of Heffernan there's additional
motivation to finish the study.

Since this year two thousand and nine is
the centennial of Heffernan is birth.

So despite several Centennial
projects nearing completion

my colleagues appear to have done a better
job of producing the centennial projects

on time than I have actually
appearing during the centennial year.

Most notable Elizabeth Dowling who is
here who's excellent exhibit on one

hundred years of the work of the school is
appearing throughout the academic year.

Also remarkable is the centennial rapture
series which Ellen Dunham Jones initiated

and which has brought to our auditorium
some of the most interesting presentations

in recent years by a ray of notable a lot
I presented evidence of a remarkable

architectural leadership and design
work that's emerged from this school.

So what might I add to this in a venue
such as this Thursday lecture series and

particularly during this centennial year.

Well in February.

Betty and George Johnson and alabaster and
I will present some brief summaries of

the changes in the architecture curriculum
in the architectural scene through the one

hundred year period of the centennial
history without one in particular looking

at the future of architecture in
the future of architectural studies here.

As a scholar who had researched aspects
of Francis Smith's work of Pat Heffernan

to work and
Atlanta architecture in general.

I began to focus on the single
question of what Atlanta

was like architecturally in one
thousand zero eight when this began.

Could I paint a picture ever so
briefly of the architectural scene

one hundred years ago when students
first introduced the idea of

a stablish in architectural studies
here and began in one thousand No wait

the architectural program whose
Centennial we now celebrate and

I must thank Brian Barron for initiating
this specific question which was a.

Rest in the inaugural meeting
of the southeast chapter

of the construction history society
which convened here last fall.

And I wondered if you rise how many
academic societies with scholarly interest

in the arts and humanities have
been founded here at Georgia Tech.

In addition to Brian's group the
nineteenth century Studies Association was

founded here almost thirty years ago.

Similarly the southeast
American Society for

eighteenth century studies both emerging
from the English department but

with participation over the years
of architecture faculty.

I am founded in this very briefly in
room two fifty eight some twenty seven

years ago the southeast chapter of the
society of architecture the story ends.

This latter scholarly organization
is among the notable accomplishments

of the past one hundred years
of our program as well.

Well how did it begin.

And we transport ourselves back tonight
to No eight and envision the world one

hundred years ago when architectural
study first began on this campus.

Now given my former life as in a story and
not an architectural historian I'm

compelled to set aside for the moment the
architectural history of these years and

first ask about the broader cultural and
historical climate of nineteen wait.

And one thousand nine a few events of
those years might help define the era.

It was an era called progressive in part
marking the end of the Edwardian age

La Belle a paddock signalled by the death
in one thousand ten of Edward the Seventh.

It was an age of so-called
muckrakers Upton Sinclair's

not of the jungle appeared
in one thousand No six and

is said to have influenced
the passing of the Pure Food and

Drug Act about which we may all be
grateful if you recall those passages in

the jungle describing the meat packing
plant and the making of lard and sausages.

Where you Howard Taft was elected the
twenty seventh president of the United.

States in one thousand zero eight and
James Chandler Harris died the same year.

Harris is Uncle Remus stories
are renowned in his queen and

style house in west then called Rand's
nest still survives here in Atlanta.

Several historical first occurred during
this period and to keep this from

sounding like David Letterman's top
ten a list I'll just mention eight.

January first one thousand KNOW RIGHT.

Was the first time a bad dropped on
Time Square to welcome the new year.

Secondly the first Model T.
rattled off the assembly line

in one thousand await and sold for
eight hundred fifty dollars.

It was available in any color you
want as long as it's blocked.

Throughly the first Mother's Day
was established in Philadelphia May

tenth one thousand no wait.

For the Christian Science Monitor
an international daily newspaper that

story published today
printed its first issue in

Bastien in November of ninety
No eight just two months

ago it celebrated its centennial body
clearing it wouldn't print anymore.

Like most newspapers
it's going on the web.

Five The N.W. C.P.E.

was founded in one thousand eight
by W.E.B. Dubois six should go.

The Chicago Cubs won the World Series for
the first time and the last time.

Seven About this time the first
scouts were founded by

Baden-Powell in one thousand or seven and
three years later the Boy Scouts of

America a stablished by William D.
Boyce in one nine hundred ten.

And eight.

If one can be slightly political The first
man from Texas became president and

he was born in one thousand nine
hundred eight Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Well what about Atlanta
in one thousand no wait.

The city that year was only
seventy one years old.

It was founded in eight hundred
thirty seven with a name terminus and

even that fact about the short
life should be temp.

By reminding ourselves that when
the city was twenty seven years old.

It was burned to the ground
by General Sherman.

I've mentioned before when presenting this
to the construction history society that

it's incumbent on anybody
who gives a lecture on.

Land A to mention Sherman.

Here is view of that firing up
of the railroad station and

a view of Alabama street
down there underground and

eight hundred sixty four with
federal troops in the streets.

And this burn out if you have a section of
Peachtree Street in eight hundred sixty

five looking north from
the railroad tracks by the way out.

You know some people have
asked why I'm from St Louis.

But you know does that make me
a Southerner since you know

Missouri sort of a border state.

You know nobody who's
actually born not born and

raised in Atlanta can be
considered a native born Atlanta.

But I'll let you guess whether
I'm a Southerner not my mother's

name was Virginia her middle name
was Lee and she named me Robert.

So well right after I was found in
an eight hundred thirty seven as

a railroad town called Terminus makes it
nowhere near as old as Bastien but about

the same age as Chicago and I suspect in
one thousand a week the southern city

had a little routes to compare with
either one of those other cities

on the other hand to my mind Atlanta
significant contributions to the built

environment during this period is what
makes it almost certainly worthwhile.

Putting up with city government in Atlanta
and that is this extraordinary handling

of landscape inner city neighborhoods and
the like the early suburbs.

This is the kind of thing that
Doug Allen knows so much about here.

Georgia Tech.

But in the spirit of the centennial theme.

I would remind you that
in one thousand and

nine she cargo was preparing to
publish its famous Brown and

plan of Chicago a monumental but
it was out scheme and

a Burnham Centennial is being celebrated
in two thousand and nine in Chicago.

Go Make no little plans but I'm sad and
sorry for the smack town of Atlanta.

There was a kind of Plaza planned by

Harrelson Beckley proposed in one thousand
nine a scheme never brought except for

the Via docks over the railroad
Gulch which was erected.

But however young Atlanta might be
the Atlanta was trying to make its place

in the world and so

before we look at architecture we might
consider other aspects of art and culture.

During this time.

Nineteen zero five
the Atlanta Association was for

armed later to become
behind Museum of rot.

But the city had to wait until one
thousand nine hundred thirty five for

the establishment of
the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

Asked for opera.

And as was the case with architectural
see Atlanta initially imported

its culture in that way during the period
there were sponsored opera performances.

During this time that he gave opera house
dates from eight hundred ninety three.

And when the city's huge civic auditorium
an armory opened in one thousand and

nine about the time our program started.

If only it it brought to the city
President Taft to dedicate a billion or so

set up to performances by on RICO Caruso
sponsored by the Atlanta Music Festival

and that began nowhere the tradition
imploded after in Atlanta.

In one thousand and when the Metropolitan
Opera Company of New York began

a seventy five year history of annual
spring performances in Atlanta

known as opera week which was still taking
place in May of every year when I came

to Georgia Tech in one
nine hundred seventy S..

The annual hosting of the Mets ceased in
one thousand nine hundred eighty six.

But by then the Atlanta
application he was performing has

its own season of opera in
a new venue now in Cobb center.

Well brought my perspective on
one thousand eight even one.

Writer and look at new
developments in art and science.

Let me skip over that I we can sense.

I will very much in change.

We should note that on the spine Special
Theory of Relativity was articulated in

one thousand zero five and in one thousand
eight hundred quantum theory of light

that Pablo Picasso's work of cubism Les
De Mars are driving your dates from this

very moment one thousand No seven
is no accidental coincidence.

And as much as issues of simultaneity and
relativity and form both science and

cubism in music.

One could first hear my other
symphony of a thousand which

emerged in one thousand await Stravinsky's
Firebird written in one thousand ten.

Frank Lloyd Wright's masterful write about
how states from this period in Chicago.

I was a task students it would take
until the one nine hundred sixty S.

and John Perkins development
of the atrium hotel for

Atlanta to gain a national reputation for
an architectural development

that has given birth here in NY to know
really Americans were starting to go to

the movies the Great Train Robbery is
being shown in five cent cinemas and

there were thirteen new movie
theaters in the city and

if it ran I can't claim to
be Hollywood we can at least

bring the archive here which is what
Ted Turner did when he brought M.G.M.

and various other things and
started Turner Classic Movies on cable.

We're up background for

night you know a snippets of
history from one hundred years ago.

It helps to put I think the Georgia Tech
centennial in something of a context.

If we turn to the city in one
thousand await architecturally and

look at the number of architects there
were about a dozen men two women who were

lists themselves in the city directory
as architects in one thousand await

one thousand and nine there were of
course no schools of architecture.

There were a few around the.

Contrie not very many but
not much going on in that

formal way some of the architectural
work such as the work of.

The Downing building
Friday of building types.

He had developed a reputation by
the end of the nineteenth century for

designing finer homes in a number of his
examples still surviving in midtown.

Run thing one can observe about this first
group of architects in the town is this

they're not home grown on the heart of
the southeast imploded it's architects

in eight hundred eighty for instance
Atlanta tracked it got fried Norman

a native of Sweden who was the architect
of the Edward Peters house in midtown

recently restored by scale ad and
he was asked to design or

such landmark buildings as the Hebrew
orphanage of eight hundred eighty eight

which was torn down to right about
the time I came to Atlanta in the early

one nine hundred seventy S. but survived
by Norman is the Inman Park School.

And the Paramount House Apartments.

Pamela House is able to represent
the architecture in the city at the very

moment that the program
here starts it's a work of

Jacobean Revival style on Peachtree
just off Peachtree near tenth Street.

Another friend Brown
architect who works for

time in Atlanta was Edmund Lon Lind
who Central Presbyterian

church downtown still stands right
across the street from the Capitol.

Linda had practiced in bad company for
twenty five years before building this

Presbyterian Church in this new up and
coming city of the new south but

neither rich nor Norman seemed to like
the place when returned a bad man after

about ten years and Norman raft
Atlanta more dramatically when he

departed this earth entirely committing
suicide in one thousand nine.

Near route had just joined Norman's from.

Very briefly affirm known as
Norman Faulkner and read and so

it should be noted as well.

And as a consequence that the famous
from of Hanson Rood dates from one

thousand nine the training ground for
fill up shop C.

and even C. was a student in
Georgia Tech's first architectural

program he was doing work
on the side with Neil Reed.

New Yorkers also came to Atlanta to
build particularly major buildings

of greater architectural sophistication
such as hotels or skyscrapers

in one thousand nine hundred for Lorenzo
Weaver arrived to build a larger and

improved Kimber house hotel after the
first Kimball house was destroyed by fire.

And bred for good but was perhaps from
New York to build the English America

building known as the flat on build
in one thousand nine hundred seven.

The only stick stamp skyscraper downtown.

So Mary Brown and Root of Chicago

record nine hundred ninety one to two
the equitable building in Atlanta.

This was raised in one thousand
nine hundred seventy one.

These recent girliness constituted what
was considered modern architecture for

the young architectural
students in Barking

on studies in the New School
in one thousand zero eight.

But their teachers and
exemplars of architecture were not

native Atlantans indeed for
the first seventy five years of the city's

history architects were transplanted
to Atlanta from just in cities and

states from the northeast the mid
Atlantic or Tennessee in particular and

it was a close knit but
not professional circle right century and

turn of the century Atlanta architects
included New Yorker William Parkins

the first city the city's first
architect New Yorker Lorenzo Weaver

who we mentioned before who
helped train Boston born W.T.

down and down and
was the man for whom France.

Smith would work when he first
came here to head up the program

a Virginian Alexander see
Bruce who became partners with

Parkin's New York born Thomas.

Henry Miller again who became partner
of Bruce and Knoxville worked.

Later in St Louis and New York and

came to Atlanta nine hundred seventy
nine as a draftsman for Parkins and

Bruce pay thought Maruja who
like Bruce was from Virginia.

I don't really need to read was born and
raised in the New South he was born in

eighteen eighty five in Jacksonville
Alabama moved to Macon Georgia in one

thousand zero three came to
Atlanta in one thousand zero for

where he apprenticed with Willis Danny and
as noted briefly for this very.

One short year partner of Godfrey Norman.

Bruce and Morgan was the dominant farm
in the years prior to the establishment

of architectural education at
Georgia Tech and as we'll see.

Thomas Morgan was especially linked to
that foundation the firm served as well as

the architect of prominent late Victorian
tower structures of those first campus

buildings in the region tech tower at
Georgia Tech Sanford High up on founders

had like clams on the administration
building at Agnes Scott all of them by

Bruce and Morgan and all these architects
active in one thousand zero zero eight.

William T. down to Deputy Downing
at least grew up in Atlanta but

was apprenticed for a short time
partner with the New Yorker we were.

And since we were speak briefly of Francis
Palmer Smith and the firm of Pringle and

Smith I should mention that
both Robert Pringle and

Francis Smith served this draftsman for
downing again neither was native to

the city Pringle was from South Carolina
and Smith from Cincinnati.

Run.
Additional observation about.

So you know I want that you know I don't.

Sorry.
One additional.

Servatius about Atlanta
in one thousand eight

cities in the early twentieth century is
that Atlanta was very much a small town

when this architectural program started
quoting to the one nine hundred ten census

there were merely one hundred fifty four
thousand eight hundred thirty nine people.

That's about the size of
Athens GA metro area today.

So we were very small town
a small college town.

It would become alternately and
much more but perhaps more telling is that

the census report was Chicago at that
point having more than two million people

and I somehow wonder if these numbers
a little wacky from different sources but

in any case when students began studying
architecture here one hundred years ago.

Lana really was a very small town but

growing rapidly at
the turn of the century.

So as suggested by the references to
architects who were active in one thousand

await and who had been building
the structures of the previous few years.

That land was also a Victorian
town certainly not the and

I bet I'm gonna win town of myth its
downtown was concentrated at five points.

The historic intersection of Peachtree and
Marietta and much of what we today think

of as part of the down sound commercial
coral peach tree center midtown etc When I

was in NY to no way entirely residential
and back had it was a mere crossroads.

Now let me illustrate that significant
point about Peachtree center at least

the land which would later become John
Portman's Peachtree center and ask you

to envision this as a residential district
in Atlanta in one thousand no wait.

The so-called house of a thousand
candles sat on the crown of peach tree

Baker Street a few yards from the future
Regency Hyatt House and the capital city

club was still in the section of Peachtree
Street in the heart of Peachtree center.

It was originally in this high
Victorian gothic residence

that we see a whole lineup of similar.

Victorian buildings here is the capital
city club without its cap on it and

indeed the first governor's mansion
with its man saw Arctic roof and

high Victorian character sat on
this section of Peachtree Street on

the corner of Canyon which is now
Andrew Young International Boulevard.

That is right on the edge
of Peachtree center.

These were the great houses of
Atlanta at the time architectural

study began at Georgia Tech
the governor's mansion was

not demolished until
nine hundred twenty five.

Next door to it was the eight hundred
fifty eight lead in the house.

You know we got a little bit off on this.

There's the governor's mansion or the more
the steeple there we go there we go.

It's going backwards.

Yes it is sorry I'm having this
wrong let's try this again.

There we go.

The lead house whose car it was
may appear to present an image

that we would expect for old Atlanta.

There stood until.

You stood in one thousand away
when the school started here but

was torn down just five years
later if you move further north.

Peachtree Street.

You have to find more
country a variance on.

Victorian houses this was at
seven A one peach tree but

man displaced by midtown development and
still further north stood.

Margaret Mitchell's girlhood home a long
peach tree this rather image tells us more

about the author of gone of the wind than
does the so-called Margaret Mitchell house

which is still surviving at Peachtree in
tenth where she actually wrote the book

and nicknamed this old house which was
in apartments at the time of the dump.

Wrap all of this suggests a character to

the whole stretch from Peachtree center
all the way up to Rhodes mansion

which was highly residential and created
a Victorian character for this fine.

Residences that focused
on our primary streets

Georgia Tech architecturally was
the same a late Victorian and

Edwardian campus whatever
those terms might mean.

But by nineteen a right for a campus that
was only begun twenty years earlier there

was very little here we have to envision
just a tiny little clear up by tech

Tower or the administration tower eight
hundred eighty seven was by Bruce and

Meghan there were other buildings included
in those drama toys from the eighteen

ninety's which Georgia Tech saw fit to
demolish despite the fact that that's

where Jimmy Carter stayed in the dorm
when he was a student here text

the French textile barely nine hundred
ninety nine by green Lockwood green and

company surround drama Tory.

And the electrical engineering
building saw about building a boat

from one thousand no water by W.T.
Downing.

The lime and
hot chemistry billion from one

thousand six just two years
before our program started and

brand new the year we began architectural
study here was Carnegie Library later to

become the Carnegie bill in one thousand
zero six to seven by Morgan and Dylan.

These were functional brick buildings
with a late Victorian industrial statics

appropriate for

a Georgia school of technology designed
by mostly Atlanta architects and bets.

Be for the establishment of
the architecture program at the school.

Now since I focus is on
one thousand no wait.

It's generally generated by the founding
of the architecture program here.

Let me summarize that event.

Architecture was one of the original
eight chairs authorized for

Georgia Tech degrees and eight hundred
eighty seven when the technical school was

founded twenty one years later
there was no architecture program.

Yet established at the institute
a Georgia Tech student name at Ivy

had started his college studies
in September of one thousand and

five in what I ve called The Apprentice
class and he later wrote We made

contact almost immediately with several
fellow students who agreed with him that

they would like to study architecture and
building construction from time to time.

Ivy has documented several of the group
contacted the factory members and

requested a prepare a Tory course that
could lead to a degree in architecture.

The students were told the demand for

architectural services was inadequate in
the areas to warrant such a program which

Georgia Tech could not afford to establish
so they should study civil engineering.

Well these would be
architecture students therefore

began to look out swear to
other architecture schools and

I really and two other students requested
their Georgia Tech transcripts.

So that they could use them to enter
the school had some access to training at

the Art Institute of Chicago in the fair
the dean called a special frankly meeting

where it was a group of Georgia Tech
would indeed establish an architecture

department and hire a head of architecture
in the fall of one thousand eight.

That would be on the condition that
fifteen students would sign up for

studying architecture and

a total of some twenty decided
they wanted to do so and then.

So Georgia Tech one hundred years ago in
one thousand await agreed to establish

a program an architecture.

Competent instructors were secured
the trustees announced and

the department would be
conducted along the most modern

progressive lines according to
announcements every effort will be exist.

To make the Course as complete and
practical as possible.

A man named Prescott Hopkins
a Bastin man of ride experience and

practical architecture as he was described
in the Atlanta Constitution was named in

one thousand eight the first head
of the architecture program.

He directed two small classes freshman and

sophomore following a course of
instruction intended to give students

the necessary training in design and
construction and their branches.

So that upon graduation the students
would be immediately employable.

And quite prepared to meet it.

Romps the conditions which will confront
him unquote as I described the first year.

Most of the time was consumed in changing
studies and starting new types of drawings

etc In addition the architecture
students formed an architecture society.

Where in this way
professional training and

architecture got a slow start in Georgia
Tech Hopkins emphasized the learning

of office methods in architectural
practice practical construction

in various phases including visits to
brick yards and Crowleys and mills and

access to plant as architectural offices
local architects stood ready to lecture

on their work at the school and among
the local IT LAN architects to assist

in judging design problems at the school
the first year were Edward Dowdy who five

years later would build one of the best
surviving Bose art buildings in Atlanta.

The First Church of Christ sinus the
colony square and how handsome they were

rude who as I mentioned would form their
own partnership in one thousand nine and

provide employment for

early tech architecture students
including Philip sharp see.

The architectural community was generally
supportive of the new program and

the Department of Architecture immediately
established itself in the shop culture of

a school of technology then after
one year Prescott Hopkins quit.

He resigned and decided he wanted
to open a practice in Florida.

So the new program was a.

Travel Georgia Tech turned immediately

to the leading architectural
educator of the day.

Warren P. Laird of the University
of Pennsylvania and asked for

a recommendation to replace Hopkins.

Recommended his former student
Francis Palmer Smith who

was at the time in the summer of one
thousand and nine on something of a grand

tour in Europe visiting and sketching in
prominent historic architectural sites.

We have in fact his diary from that
trip in one thousand nine the in

that he went to almost exclusively
medieval sites Smith had declined lives

earlier offer to come teach at Pan in
the program of our social engineering

there but he understood perhaps that as
director of the architecture program at

Georgia Tech he could shape the program's
character it was a new program and

for me in charge he would be empowered to
balance the necessary practicalities of

BERLIJN which he earlier described
to Larry as what he focused on which

was his own direction toward design Smith
was a designer he wanted to emphasize

design the job at Penn was going to
be oriented in a different way but

he thought he could shape Georgia Tech
as a primarily design school so

he accepted Georgia Tech's offer and he
came to Atlanta to serve as professor and

head of architecture.

While this full professor and
head of architecture.

He was twenty three years old.

He immediately turned to establishing
the architecture school is a better start

program battle though Smith admitted on
the course of study of his on the matter.

One of the best Beau's art programs among
architecture schools in this country

the University of Pennsylvania.

The entire architecture department
faculty during the years of Smith

tenure consisted of Smith as
Professor of Architecture and

a drawing instructor later a few students
assistants helped with instruction but

the sale of the program was cool.

To sensually Francis Smith's would be no
exaggeration during the opening years but

a curriculum family established the bet
was our character of Georgia Tech

that would remain relatively little
after it for over thirty years.

Smith's graduating class in one
thousand ravin awarded seven B.S.

degrees in architecture to
a talented group of young men

who were it was already known beyond
the campus primarily by its display on

in the first annual exhibit of
the architectural absolute in Atlanta.

That was held in May of one nine hundred
ten the exhibit catalog featured drawings

from Smith students at Georgia Tech.

This is not the catalog this is a review
of the architecture program work from

the freshman class six from the sophomore
class four of those six were by shot C.

and twenty round from the junior
class including six drawings by Ed

all of the who had helped
found the architecture school.

There were no drawings from the senior
class because there was no senior

class yet

the program was just that young Francis
Smith who had arrived in Atlanta less

than a year earlier was like Raj becoming
a stablished in the arts community.

He provided five drawings
himself to the exhibition

including two sketches from
his grand tour in Europe.

One of noted all of Paris
another one of more Sammy show.

He was also had a wonderful bet was our
problem design for a maritime museum for

which he want to first mention of
the University of Pennsylvania and

A front of ation drawing of his
recently designed hospital for

Georgia Tech that is his first building
on campus which is in from rebuilding

up on the Hill and
also drawing from using a part for

a large city the architectural absolute
Atlanta became an immediate means

by which the new head of architecture
gained professional exposure and

public visibility both for himself and
for the new architectures.

Rule by exhibiting the Paris prize drawing
is judged to be the best in the nation and

a series of other competition drawings
sponsored by the society of Bose

architects in New York the architectural
arts league of Atlanta offered

models of excellence to students at
the recently established design school and

stimulated a higher degree
of quality in their own.

Own work.

During the first few of
Smith's directorship and

recognition credits the competition is one
of the most effective means of stimulating

the students to attain good results an
association of the schools of architecture

in the South was founded with the purpose
of extending the scope of the competitions

beyond the grass of the respective schools
studio classrooms and local exhibits

during the fat one thousand nine hundred
thirteen the first competition attracted

seventeen design entries which were
submitted to the architectural faculty of

the University of Pennsylvania for
judging five were from Georgia Tech

with three of these five
receiving equal first place.

And the first project receiving a mansion.

First words and mansions conform to
the best art competition practices and

the success of Smith's students judged

by the faculty of his alma mater as he
put it was most gratifying in every way.

Their success in the one nine hundred
thirteen to fourteen Southern

intercollegiate architectural competition
Sept The standard which Smith

continued throughout his association
with Georgia Tech after receiving one

mention again in one nine hundred
fourteen to fifteen Smith's students.

Run first and were second prizes
almost every academic year

of Smith's tenure as head of the
department indeed Smith students received

first prizes seven of the ten
years of his directorship.

France or Smith trains some of
Atlanta's most prominent names.

Classical and traditional
architects including Ed I agree and

Lewis critic of the firm of crook
who built the second phase of Amery.

And Preston Stevens of Stevens
which became Stevens and

worked and one of the longest running
farms in the city's history threw up shop

see who excelled under Smith graduated in
one nine hundred twelve practiced law most

entirely in Atlanta and as late as one
thousand nine hundred seventy seven Henry

hope Reed would cost shop see America's
greatest living classical architect.

But the education of such a leading
classicist should begin at a school

of technology in the American South
during the first few years

of an architecture program's existence
headed by a man in his mid twenty's

is a remarkable study and a story of
a pioneering and successful experiment.

You know architectural education
on the remarkable leadership

Francis Smith which spent thirteen
years of his early career

as head of the new architecture program
at Georgia Tech he was younger than our

typical graduate students today when he
took charge as Professor in one thousand

nine in this newly formed design school
he was merely thirty six when he

retired as an educator I we continue
to advise the school in return often to

serve as a critic on design juries where
for competitions evaluating student work.

Beyond his reach as a teacher of
some of the region's most talented

designers and
future leaders of architecture Smith

was establishing the architecture school
as a premier design school in the south.

Within two years of Smith's departure the
barriers out society rated Georgia Tech's

architecture program as number around in
the South and about fifth in the nation.

But never in one thousand nine hundred
six the architecture department was

admitted into the Association
of Collegiate schools.

Rocka texture to become the only school
in the south in the a C.S.A. and

just as Smith was grounded in
architectural education in Georgia.

He was also a stablish in himself
as a practicing architect.

And for information about his career
as an architect you have to wait for

the forthcoming book from
the University of Georgia Prescott or

architect the architecture
of Francis Palmer Smith.

But before closing there's
one final point and

it should also be noted that during
Smith's tenure at Georgia Tech progress

was also being made in the professional
development of architecture in Atlanta

with Smith playing a significant and
sometimes leading role the Atlanta

chapter of the American Institute of
Architects had been founded in one

thousand nine hundred six three years
before Smith's November one thousand and

nine arrival in the city and
Smith was a reacted to Chapter membership

in one thousand nine hundred twelve
the same year by the way as Maruti.

Architect of Atlanta's famed
terminal station and principal in

the firm he was not the project architect
but the film who built the Fox Theater.

It was clear from the first six
years of the local chapters history

that the scope of the chapter
was really state rod and

in one nine hundred thirteen with
Francis Smith among the Incorporated.

The latter chapter was incorporated
as the Georgia chapter of the.

There were several related reasons for
the change in as much as the territory

assigned to the chapter embrace the entire
state of Georgia and since applicants for

membership in the chapter were
received from time to time from

architects residing in cities in
the state other than in Atlanta.

The new title recognize
the state wide interest.

Most significant was the feature in the
balance of the National a revised amended

which required that no person shall be
eligible to membership in the institute

in Russia who is a member of a local
chapter provided that a chapter exist.

In the territory in which he resides.

So the incorporation of the Georgia
chapter of the American Institute of

Architects in September of one
nine hundred thirteen included

virtually a who's who of Atlanta
architects of the period as Incorporated.

Helston Brackley of the black
replies a plan for you.

Ten Eyck Brown the architect of
the county courthouse downtown and

supervising architect in the one nine
hundred twenty S. of the Atlanta schools.

Alexander see Bruce and Thomas Bergen and
John Robert Dylan who would eventually

be in partnership the first two when Bruce
and we're going we're partners built tech

tower the successor from became Morgan and
Dylan Edward

droughty who I mentioned was the from
who built the Christian Science church.

And also home park school
just north of campus and

the list goes on the grass roots he down
in Henrietta Dozier William Edwards Howard

hence Frederick Loper P.
thought memory new read.

Eugene rock and Dr Who But
Crawford Long Henry Van Eyck Wendell and

Francis Palmer Smith.

With a new a new architecture school and

an increasing number of trained architects
in Atlanta after one thousand alright.

It is clear that the architectural
scene was changing.

Students of Francis Palmer Smith
the sensually built the Atlanta

of the one nine hundred twenty S.
Smith himself built.

Hiram's houses institutions churches
skyscrapers from Miami to Chattanooga and

from North Carolina to Alabama his
masterpiece culminated in his career

was the Cathedral of St Philip
in Atlanta which he built.

He designed it over twenty year period but

it finally got built when
Francis Smith was seventy five.

A man his students none surpassed
perhaps the consistent designer.

It sounds to Philip shops and although
Pope Bonnie outside of Atlanta and

I think croaker burgeon Stevens inside
the city enjoyed notable careers but

rather from of course of Stevens and
Wilkinson still survives.

What we remember in two thousand and
eight is that it all began here

in nineteen zero eight and so the title is
explained because in this case the scholar

architect is the scholar looking back at
the Centennial from the other and and

we can be proud of what
Francis Smith began here.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.

Well enjoy the exhibit out there too.

It's great.

Yeah yeah

it's sort of hard to get access to some of
this correspondence as well but the sense.

My sense is that.

Matheson was the president throughout
the time that he was here and

they actually both resigned.

Within a couple of months of each other.

Smith left I think because Matheson
left and Matheson left because

the state legislature continued to refuse
funding of the of the whole institute let

alone the new school almost throughout
the entire period that Smith was here

running the school there were two
faculty I mean he was there and

the other major factor member.

He hired somebody else the second year and
then that person died before the year was

finished and then he hired another person
Doc Gailey who was here forever and

had a long continuity from Smith's tenure
all the way through bush BROWN But

the sense is that it was done
a lot on the shoestring in that

there were just very few participants
relatively small group of students and

initially that would grow and
it would it just was a frustration and

I suspect that his departure was that
he's the only president of Georgia Tech

that he knew the whole time he was head
of architecture was about to resign and

he resigned as well.

Nineteen twenty two was a remarkable time
to start a practice anyway I mean he had

been doing a few buildings while
he was head of architecture.

His buildings on campus
including the infirmary build

in which I guess is what shape and
building now is what they call it and

next to the old physics building and also
the coon mechanical engineering building.

Name for John Curran and

that you know this is prominent early
work in the history of the campus but

his his career just absolutely
took off in twenty two.

Once he joined with Robert Pringle he
met Pringle because Pringle it headed

the Chattanooga office down in at

the time that Downing was building
these huge Coca-Cola mansions for

the Coca-Cola bottle in Chattanooga
a particular house called.

Lyndhurst which was doesn't survive
it was one of the locked in houses.

And but he Pringle was doing
a lot of work in Rome and

they alternately then came down to
Atlanta and so on the side Smith

was doing drafting work for Downey and so
they met the two Pringle and Smith met and

they formed this practice after he stepped
down from Georgia Tech in twenty two.

Yeah.

Well they typically were all over
the you know sort of in odd places

in the campus you know that.

I'm guessing that they were
in part in part of that

mechanical engineer an early building or
an initially on but the physical location.

I hadn't really looked at
I'm just assuming that

once he built that I mean that.

There's a phase of that that was extended
in the one nine hundred twenty S.

but there was a first phase
it was much earlier and

I suspect that maybe were there some
of the second the top floor of it.

I think is where they were yeah.

Yeah you've covered just about every

building somewhere I think yeah at some
point they spent an awful lot of time.

Once the physics building was built.

They spent a lot of time utilizing
the physics building which

Francis Smith did not design
it's a Robert company building.

But it was right after his leaving
Georgia Tech as head of architecture so

it had some strong sort
of influence of Smith and

the physics building kind of started that
more collegiate Gothika Jacobean quality

that took off from that structure
on in a lot of the dormitories.

Yes OK.

Yes OK.

The old physics right.

You know which is D.M. Smith.

You know is that where you
know you're not there.

Have you moved over to for a.

Yeah yeah.
So you're back in the building now.

All these nomadic departments that
are chasing each other all over campus.

Well thank you all for coming.