page_title: McGill School of Architecture
section_title: Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art
hierarchical_section_title: McGill School of Architecture / Buildings and resources / Libraries and collections / Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Bâtiment du Centre canadien d'architecture
context_page_description: The McGill School of Architecture is one of eight academic units constituting the Faculty of Engineering at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1896 by Sir William Macdonald, it is among the oldest architecture schools in North America, offering accredited professional and post-professional programs ranging from undergraduate to PhD levels. Since its founding, the School has established an international reputation and a record of producing leading professionals and researchers who have helped shape the field of architecture, including Moshe Safdie, Arthur Erickson, Raymond Moriyama and the founders of Arcop.
  Having existed during both World Wars and the development of Modernism, the School experienced many changes in terms of enrollment and architectural ideologies over the course of its history. Beginning with a class of only three students, the School expanded many times and relocated on multiple occasions to different buildings both on and off of McGill's main campus. It was the first architecture school in Canada to offer a graduate planning program and a PhD in Architecture, and the first department within the Faculty of Engineering to graduate women.
context_section_description: The Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art is the University's parent library for the Schools of Architecture and Urban Planning, and is located on the upper floor of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library.
  The library was established through a donation from the family of Gordon H. Blackader, one of the first students to study at the School of Architecture who died during World War I. The library was renamed the Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art during the 1940s after the family of sculptor Dinah Lauterman made a donation to the university in her memory.
  The library contains over 79,000 monographs and journal subscriptions, and has a substantial collection of over 3000 rare books from 1511 to 2009 housed in the Rare Books and Special Collections Library at McGill. This includes a collection of original works by Vitruvius, Palladio, and G. B. Piranesi, among others.
caption: Canadian Centre for Architecture, view of Shaughnessy House.
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