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01.

Introduction

SCAD: The Architecture of a University celebrates the rich history and enduring legacy of the world's most comprehensive art and design university, the Savannah College of Art and Design.

This exquisite 360-page volume highlights the university's most inspired and inspiring spaces and illuminates the storied pasts of its architectural treasures in 40 detailed narratives. Each account outlines the meticulous measures enacted to carefully and artfully conserve these unique historic structures. In addition, a complementary retrospective section spans nearly four decades of SCAD history and recounts 40 of the university's most cherished and memorable moments.

Complete with more than 200 beautiful photographs, SCAD: The Architecture of a University reveals the resplendent élan, grandeur, and magic of each featured space and event.

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"SCAD has reinvented and restored an impressive number of buildings around the world. The way they've transformed these buildings for educational use has revolutionized the cities around them."

— Stephanie Meeks, president and chief executive officer, National Trust for Historic Preservation

"The story of how Paula Wallace built SCAD is an amazing success story. Her vision — a university to prepare creative students for career employment — led to the creation of a university with programs, staff and faculty that are among the best in the country."

— M. Art Gensler Jr., FAIA, FIIDA, RIBA, founder of Gensler

"If I had a time machine, I would go back and attend SCAD. Since I don't, I'll content myself with this magnificent tome."

— Jonathan Adler, designer and author

"It's one thing to have an idea and another thing to have the possibilities and the mediums to express that idea. It's very important for students to have the opportunity to work with such amazing equipment and impressive facilities. SCAD's extraordinary resources help facilitate the transmission of ideas from students."

— Carlos Cruz-Diez, artist and color theorist

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About the contributors

The contributing authors of SCAD: The Architecture of a University are authorities and leading voices in the fields of architecture, interior design, historic preservation and education. Through scholarly research, light anecdote and personal insight, Paula Wallace, Margaret Russell and Chuck Chewning reveal the history of the university and its architectural wonders, so intertwined in their genesis and evolution as to be inseparable.

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