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Journal of Design History 1997 10(3):269-292; doi:10.1093/jdh/10.3.269
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Industrial Design at Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1934–1967

JIM LESKO

University of Bridgeport, Connecticut


  Abstract

This article seeks to reconstruct the history of the Industrial Design (ID) programme at Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT). Established in 1934, CIT's programme was the first of its kind in the United States. Eye witnesses such as the first ever graduate in ID, Maud Bowers, and Professor Robert bepper, on the faculty from 1930 to 1975, shared their memories with the author in order to establish a more reliable account of the initial stages of the programme. Donald Dohner, who taught at CIT until 1935, emerges as mainly responsible for the curriculum which for the most part is still being used by most ID programmes in the United States. He therefore rightly deserves the title ‘Father of Industrial Design Education in America’. Finally, this study will explore how the programme eventually developed and in which way it changed its direction relative to its original philosophy.


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