This is the first in-depth study of how the architectural Profession emerged in early American history.
While struggling to survive as designers and supervisors of construction.
Instead, she cites several instances in the early 1800s of craftsmen-builders who shifted their identity to that of professional architects.
Mary Woods dispels the prevailing notion that the Profession developed under the leadership of men formally schooled in architecture as an art during the late nineteenth century.
This is the first in-depth study of how the architectural Profession emerged in early American history