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Book Review| March 01 2020 Review: Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory, by Carla Yanni Carla YanniLiving on Campus: An Architectural History of the American DormitoryMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019, 304 pp., 14 color and 132 b/w illus. $140 (cloth), ISBN 9781517904555; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 9781517904562 Jayne Merkel Jayne Merkel New York City Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2020) 79 (1): 114–116. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2020.79.1.114 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jayne Merkel; Review: Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory, by Carla Yanni. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2020; 79 (1): 114–116. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2020.79.1.114 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Living on Campus is a lively, intriguing history of dormitories that combines social and architectural history to provide a glimpse of something most readers know about but may not have realized they did. Anyone who has gone away to college—or taught at one that has residence halls—is probably aware of many of the things Carla Yanni describes without being fully conscious of where this knowledge came from. Unsurprisingly, the inspiration for the American system of housing students came from England, from Oxford and Cambridge in particular. As Yanni notes, most European universities do not provide on-campus housing (although a few do), but both men's and women's dormitories were often arranged in quadrangles with semiprivate green space. In American higher education, there has been, almost from the beginning, a desire not only to teach but also to shape the character of students. When the first dormitories for women were built, female... You do not currently have access to this content.
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