Question

Until 1868, when MIT opened the first school of architecture in the U.S., architects trained as apprentices or pursued studies abroad at either the Ecole des Beaux Arts or at German polytechnic academies.

Answer 1

True

Step-by-step explanation:

Before the realization of the needs of the architecture profession by the likes of Thomas Jefferson in the 19th century as a result of the growing and expansion needs of the United States. It was recorded by various historians that the method for training architects was through apprenticeship to the artisan.

This was described as a fifty-fifty chance of the apprentice learning the job very well.

Also, it was on record that many "architects" at this point in US history were men of the upper class, and get the knowledge from the French Ecole des Beaux-Arts in what was known as the "School of Fine Arts" education philosophy

Hence, the statement above is TRUE