OSBORNE, Milton Smith (1897-1972) is best known for this contribution to architectural education in Manitoba. Although trained as an architect at Ohio State University and at Columbia University in New York City, there are few, if any, architectural works which can be attributed to him. He was brought to Winnipeg, Man. in 1929 to take the position of Director of the School of Architecture and Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba, a post vacated by his predecessor Arthur A. Stoughton. He served as Director at the School until 1946 and like his counterpart Eric Arthur in Toronto, maintained a high standard of instruction and training by introducing a new generation of students to the International Style which was emerging in Europe at that time. He was also a noted artist who made a vivid record of his summer travels to Europe and Central America; a collection to nearly two hundred of his sketches documenting the development of colonial architecture in America is now held by the Library of Congress in Washington. He was elected President of the Manitoba Association of Architects in 1936 and contributed dozens of articles to architectural journals. He left Manitoba in 1946 to take up duties as head of the Department of Architecture at Pennsylvania State College and remained there until 1957. In June of that year he returned to Canada where he was appointed Acting Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Toronto for one year. He died on 6 November 1972 (obit. Centre Daily Times [State College & Bellefonte, Penn], 6 Nov. 1972, 32; biography and port. in Pencil Points (New York), viii, Oct. 1927, 633; R.A.I.C. Journal, xxiii, Aug. 1946, 193; obituary in the A.I.A. Journal, lix, Jan. 1973, 52)
SELECTED ARTICLES
'Architecture and the Student', in R.A.I.C. Journal, ix, Dec. 1932, 259-60
'The Modern and Traditional Interpretation of Architecture', in R.A.I.C. Journal, xiii, April 1936, 62-70, illus.
''The Architect in the Community', a radio broadcast, with transcript in the R.A.I.C. Journal, xiii, Dec. 1936, 232
'Mexico: A Re-Discovered Land of Adventure', in R.A.I.C. Journal, xiv, Jan. 1937, 5-11, illus.
'The Mechanical Equipment of the Modern House', in R.A.I.C. Journal, xiv, May 1937, 84-6
Editorial, with an appreciation of architecture in eastern Canada and the northeast United States, in R.A.I.C. Journal, xiv, Oct. 1937, 220
'Modern Architecture', a talk given to the Manitoba Association of Architects, in R.A.I.C. Journal, xv, Feb. 1938, 46
'The Architectural Heritage of Manitoba', in Manitoba Essays, 1937, 53-88
'Fort Prince of Wales, Churchill, Manitoba', in R.A.I.C. Journal, xvi, June 1939, 144-6, illus.
Editorial, with a review of the impact of the New York World's Fair, in R.A.I.C. Journal, xvi, Dec. 1939, 262
'School of Architecture, University of Manitoba', in R.A.I.C. Journal, xviii, Feb. 1941, 20-22, illus.
Editorial, on the architecture of Western Canada, in R.A.I.C. Journal, xviii, Aug. 1941, 130
Editorial, on the status and development of architectural schools in the United States, in R.A.I.C. Journal, xx, Nov. 1943, 203
'The Course in Architecture at the University of Manitoba', in R.A.I.C. Journal, xxii, April 1945, 78
'Milton S. Osborne: An Appreciation' by John A. Russell, in R.A.I.C. Journal, xxiii, Aug. 1946, 193