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Article: Learning from Lakamaga: why an architectural historian cares about summer camps.
- Article from:
- Camping Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Whenever I tell people that my research deals with the history of summer camps, they smile. Undoubtedly some of the smiles are triggered by fond camp memories: the smell of pine, perhaps, or the taste of s'mores. But sometimes (I suspect) the smiles serve to hide a certain amount of confusion about what summer camps have to do with architectural history. If we are thinking of the most conventional definition of the field--a history of innovative works designed by architects of genius--then that confusion is warranted. This is not to say that architects have never designed summer camps. They have--they do--often producing buildings of some quality. But if we are primarily ...
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