Oral history interview with Lawrence Anderson
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 9 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 17 digital wav files. Duration is 12 hrs., 43 minutes.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Anderson, Lawrence B. (Lawrence Bernhart)
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)
label: Names
content: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture
label: Names
content: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Architecture and Planning
label: Names
content: Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976
label: Names
content: Beckwith, Herbert
label: Names
content: Belluschi, Pietro, 1899-1994
label: Names
content: Emerson, William Ralph, 1833-1917
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content: Wurster, William Wilson
topic: label: Topic
content: Architecture, American
label: Topic
content: Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- United States
label: Topic
content: Architects -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Educators -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, and critics.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Anderson, Lawrence B. (Lawrence Bernhart)
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lawrence B. Anderson (1906-1994) was an architect and educator from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 187 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1992 January 30-March 30
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.anders92
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Lawrence Anderson conducted 1992 January 30-March 30, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Anderson speaks about: his childhood in rural Minnesota, youth in Minneapolis, education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's School of Architecture and Planning, and at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris; his studies, teachers and fellow students; teaching at the University of Virginia and MIT; colleagues and students at MIT; partnership with Herbert Beckwith and buildings by their firm; Alvar Aalto, Deans William Emerson, William Wurster and Pietro Belluschi; projects on which he has served as an architectural advisor; and competitions he has juried.