John Ely Burchard

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John Ely Burchard (December 8, 1898 Marshall, Minnesota - December 25, 1975 Boston) was an American professor and dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a historian and architectural critic. He was President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1954 to 1957.

He attended the University of Minnesota for two and a half years, served in World War I, and returned to study at MIT, obtaining a bachelor's degree in 1923 and a master's in 1925.

Burchard started his career at

National Research Council and the National Defense Research Committee. For his war work, he received a Medal for Merit
in 1948.

Burchard was the first dean of MIT's School of Humanities and Social Science, serving from 1950 to 1969.[1]

The John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities is an

endowed chair named in his honor.[2]
MIT holds his papers.[3]

Works

  • Bernini is dead? Architecture and the Social Purpose, 1976,
    ISBN 0070089221
  • with Albert Bush-Brown, The architecture of America; a social and cultural history, 3rd ed., 1967
  • The voice of the phoenix; postwar architecture in Germany, 1966
  • with Oscar Handlin, The Historian and the City, 1963
  • Burchard, John Ely (1957). "The Urban Aesthetic". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 314 (1). SAGE Publications: 112–122.
    S2CID 145659362
    .

References

  1. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2021-10-02.
  2. ^ "Edward Schiappa receives the Charles H. Woolbert Research Award", MIT News, December 19, 2016
  3. ^ "Collection: John E. Burchard papers | MIT ArchivesSpace". archivesspace.mit.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-02.


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