Content Description
Manuscripts of speeches by Carl M. Sapers delivered at professional organizations between 1960-2001, related to architecture and construction law. Some additional materials from 2006-2007 related to Sapers' Spring 2007 course Issues in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Dates
- Creation: 1960-2007
Creator
- Sapers, Carl M., 1932-2018 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
Extent
.5 linear feet (1 box)Biographical / Historical
Carl M. Sapers, lawyer and educator, was born in 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard College (AB 1953) and Harvard Law School (JD 1958). During his career as a lawyer, he represented multiple architects and architectural firms, and was counsel for the Boston Society of Architects, the Massachusetts State Association of Architects, the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB). He was partner and then managing partner at the Boston-based law firm, Hill and Barlow, where he worked for 45 years until his retirement in 2002.
Sapers taught courses at MIT and at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). At Harvard, he served as Adjunct Professor of Legal Practice (1984-1993) and then as Adjunct Professor of Studies in Professional Practice in Architecture (1993-2009). He retired from the GSD in 2010.
Sapers died July 18, 2018.
Arrangement
Material is arranged in chronological order.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Carl M. Sapers, 2018
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Sara Rogers in July 2023. With the exception of folder 7, all titles come directly from the creator.
Creator
- Sapers, Carl M., 1932-2018 (Person)
- Title
- Carl M. Sapers speeches
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Sara Rogers
- Date
- July 2023
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- des00061
Repository Details
Part of the Frances Loeb Library Repository
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