ARCHITECTURE AT BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE

ARCHITECTURE

Black Mountain College Project

Architecture Section

Introduction

Chronology

Black Mountain and Asheville

CAMPUSES
Blue Ridge Campus
Lake Eden Campus

Guide to the Campuses
and Maps

Curriculum

Biographies
of Architects

Architecture related publications

Section Outline

(6) Round House

The Round House, a stone octagon building, was the music classroom.

The college added a heating system and shelves were constructed for music scores.

2007: The building remains much the same except for the central light fixture and the picture window on the lake side.

Round House 2007

Photographs: Party in the Round House, Harry Noland, photographer; Music class in the Round House, Erwin Bodky at piano, Trude Guermonprez Elsesser (photographer), courtesy Lisa Jalowetz Aronson; Round House exterior, Black Mountain College Project.

The Black Mountain College Project gratefully acknowledges a grant from the Graham Foundation
for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts for a study of architecture at Black Mountain College.