Architecture

Lake Eden

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On June 14, 1937, as insurance against a sudden ouster from the Blue Ridge property, Black Mountain College purchased the Lake Eden property from the trustees of the E.W. Grove estate. The property was located two miles northwest of the …

Biographies

Buckminster Fuller

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When Chicago architect Bertrand Goldberg, who had agreed to teach at the 1948 summer session at Black Mountain, had to cancel at the last minute, he recommended Buckminster Fuller as a replacement. Despite Albers’s reservations about inviting an unknown person …

History

1950s

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Those who inherited Black Mountain College in the fall of 1949 were faced with the formidable task of healing the badly fractured community, of raising funds, and of reexamining the college’s goals. An administrator was hired to reorganize the college …

History

1940s

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In 1941, Black Mountain College moved across the valley to its own campus at Lake Eden where it remained until its closing. The Lake Eden property had been developed as a summer resort and camp with a lakeside dining hall, …

History

1930s

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Black Mountain College was an experimental college located near Asheville, North Carolina. Founded in the fall of 1933 by John Andrew Rice, Theodore Dreier and other faculty who had been fired or resigned from Rollins College the previous spring, the …

Biographies

Alfred Lawrence Kocher

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Lawrence Kocher’s contribution to architecture in the United States was both as a pioneering advocate for modern architecture and as an advocate for the preservation of architectural landmarks.

Kocher studied history at Stanford University (B.A., 1909). He also studied at …

Architecture

Blue Ridge Campus 1933-41

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If Black Mountain College was to open in September 1933, a ready-made campus had to be located over the summer months. Robert Wunsch, a former member of the Rollins faculty who had taught in Asheville, recommended the YMCA Blue Ridge …