Since the beginnings of professionalization in the nineteenth century, architects have struggled to find ways to reach a broad public. Leopold Eidlitz, one of the founding members of the American Institute of Architects, published a series of essays in The Crayon in 1858 that attempted, through the use of popular literary forms, to do just that.…[Read more]

This article provides new perspective on architectural training and practice in nineteenth-century America by focusing on the little known efforts by the Prague-born architect Leopold Eidlitz to create a new school of architecture in New York in the 1860s. Eidlitz proposed to establish a polytechnic institute based on the schools of central Europe…[Read more]