Arcangelo Cascieri

Last updated • 3 min readFrom Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Arcangelo Cascieri
Born(1902-02-22)February 22, 1902
Province of Pescara, Italy
DiedJanuary 14, 1997(1997-01-14) (aged 94)
NationalityAmerican
Education Boston Architectural Center
Boston University
OccupationSculptor
Parent(s)Corrado Cascieri
Maria Cascieri

Arcangelo "Angelo" Cascieri (February 22, 1902 – January 14, 1997) [1] was an influential sculptor and a major figure in the evolution of the Boston Architectural College in Boston, Massachusetts. [2]

Contents

Early life

Cascieri was born in Pescara province, Italy in 1902 to Corrado and Maria Cascieri. Arcangelo's father was a cabinet maker with the ability to send wireless messages for the town. Arcangelo's mother received no formal education, although she excelled in the ways of the home such as cooking and weaving. When Arcangelo was three, his mother gave birth to another son, named Tito. Soon after, Corrado left the family to move to Boston's North End in hopes of finding wealth and prosperity. [2]

In 1907, Maria and her sons joined Corrado in Boston, after a lengthy trip across the Atlantic by boat. The family welcomed another child, Mary Dominica, in 1908. Eventually, the family chose to leave the North End in favor of East Boston, which Corrado felt was more similar to their hometown in Italy. It was at this time that Arcangelo began attending school and learning English, although his family continued to speak Italian at home. [2]

Apprenticeship

In his early teens, Arcangelo was taken out of school and sent to work in the shipping room at a shoe factory in order to help the family financially. [3] During this time, Arcangelo learned woodworking and began to carve. As his ability increased, Arcangelo was approached to be an apprentice to Johannes Kirchmayer, chief sculptor at W.F. Ross Studio in Cambridge. As an apprentice to Kirchmayer, Arcangelo met many sculptors and carvers from all over the world who had settled in the Boston area, including such notables as Joseph Gabler and Natale Giacone. It was also Kirchmayer who told Arcangelo about the Boston Architectural Club, the institution in which he would be involved for the rest of his life. [2]

Formal education and the BAC

In 1922, Arcangelo began studying at the Boston Architectural Center and finished the program in four years, graduating a year early. After graduating, he chose to study at the School of Fine Arts at Boston University until 1936. In 1937, Arcangelo became the head of the Boston Architectural Center. [3] In 1943, Arcangelo was appointed Dean of the Boston Architectural Center [1] and throughout the 1940s, the school continued to grow. Notable architects such as Buckminster Fuller and Frank Lloyd Wright lectured at the Center. [2]

Personal projects

Because all of the faculty lectured on a volunteer basis, Arcangelo supported himself as a sculptor, opening a studio with his brother-in-law, Adio diBiccari, in 1952. Together, they were involved in several large projects throughout the world including the American World War I Memorial at Belleau Wood in France and the World War II Memorial at Margraten in the Netherlands. [1] Many of their works can be seen in Boston, the most famous being the Parkman Plaza fountain in Boston Common.

Later years

In 1976, the school, undergoing a major change, began to grant degrees. At the same time, the formal Work Curriculum Program began, which allowed students to work in architecture firms during the day and attend class at night. [2] This was a very different style of learning from other American architecture programs and it is a feature that continues to make the BAC unique today. Dean Cascieri remained an important figure at the school until shortly before his death in 1997.

Related Research Articles

Autodidacticism or self-education is a education without the guidance of masters or institutions. Generally, autodidacts are individuals who choose the subject they will study, their studying material, and the studying rhythm and time. Autodidacts may or may not have formal education, and their study may be either a complement or an alternative to formal education. Many notable contributions have been made by autodidacts.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Corrado Parducci</span> American sculptor

Corrado Giuseppe Parducci was an Italian-American architectural sculptor who was a celebrated artist for his numerous early-20th century works.

Ulysses Anthony Ricci (1888–1960) was an American sculptor known primarily for his architectural sculpture. Born in New York City, Ricci was an apprentice at the Perth Amboy Terra Cotta Works in New Jersey from 1902 to 1906.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation</span> Architecture school of Columbia University

Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) is the architecture school of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City. It is regarded as an important and prestigious architecture school. It is also home to the Masters of Science program in Advanced Architectural Design, Historic Preservation, Real Estate Development, Urban Design, and Urban Planning.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Guy Lowell</span> American architect and landscape designer

Guy Lowell, was an American architect and landscape architect.

The Tyler School of Art and Architecture is based at Temple University, a large, urban, public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Tyler currently enrolls about 1,350 undergraduate students and about 200 graduate students in a wide variety of academic degree programs, including architecture, art education, art history, art therapy, ceramics, city and regional planning, community arts practices, community development, facilities management, fibers and material studies, glass, graphic and interactive design, historic preservation, horticulture, landscape architecture, metals/jewelry/CAD-CAM, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and visual studies.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Galen Howard</span> American architect

John Galen Howard was an American architect and educator who began his career in New York before moving to California. He was the principal architect at several firms in both states and employed Julia Morgan early in her architectural career.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Beaux-Arts Institute of Design</span> Former art and architectural school in Manhattan, New York

The Beaux-Arts Institute of Design was an art and architectural school at 304 East 44th Street in Turtle Bay, Manhattan, in New York City. It was founded in 1916 by Lloyd Warren for the training of American architects, sculptors and mural painters consistent with the educational agenda of the French École des Beaux-Arts. The building is now home to Egypt's mission to the United Nations.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Boston Architectural College</span> Architectural college in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Boston Architectural College is a private college in Boston. It is New England's largest private college of spatial design. The college's main building is at 320 Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tulane School of Architecture</span> Architecture school of Tulane University

The Tulane School of Architecture is the school of architecture at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. The school has a student body of approximately 442 students.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Notre Dame School of Architecture</span>

The University of Notre Dame School of Architecture was the first Catholic university in America to offer a degree in architecture, beginning in 1898. The School offers undergraduate and post-graduate architecture programs.

David MacGibbon and Thomas Ross were Scottish architects. Their practice, MacGibbon and Ross was established in 1872 and continued until 1914. They are best known today for their comprehensive published surveys of Scotland's architectural heritage.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">MIT School of Architecture and Planning</span> Architecture school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The MIT School of Architecture and Planning is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1865 by William Robert Ware, the school offered the first architecture curriculum in the United States and was the first architecture program established within a university. MIT's Department of Architecture has consistently ranked among the top architecture/built environment schools in the world.

Mónica Ponce de León is a Latina architect, educator, and dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture.

Astra Zarina was an architect and professor in the University of Washington Department of Architecture. She is best known for her creation of the University of Washington Italian Studies programs and her founding of the UW Rome Center.

Adio diBiccari was an American sculptor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David K. Rubins</span> American sculptor

David Kresz Rubins (1902–1985) was an American sculptor and professor. He taught at Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and his various works adorn the Indiana State House, the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and the National Archives building in Washington, D.C.

Arcangelo is a given name and a family name. Notable people with the name include:

Harvey Ferrero is an American architect, an architectural illustration expert, the founder of Ferrero Architects, and a former adjunct professor of Lawrence Technical University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The School of Architecture</span> Private architecture school in Paradise Valley, Arizona, USA

The School of Architecture is a private architecture school in Paradise Valley, Arizona. It was founded in 1986 as an accredited school by surviving members of the Taliesin Fellowship. The school offers a Master of Architecture program that focuses on the organic architecture design philosophy of Frank Lloyd Wright. The school is the smallest accredited graduate architecture program in the United States and emphasizes hands-on learning, architectural immersion, experimentation, and a design-build program that grew out of the Taliesin Fellowships’ tradition of building shelters in the Arizona desert. The school is not ranked by any ranking publications.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Arcangelo Cascieri Obituary". The New York Times . Retrieved April 4, 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Valentine, Eve. Arcangelo Cascieri: Teacher, Sculptor, Architect, Poet, Philosopher. Boston: Boston Architectural Center, 1982.
  3. 1 2 LaGumina, Salvatore John. The Italian American Experience: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Frances, 2000. 101–102.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.