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Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius , 1883-1969, German-American architect, one of the leaders of modern functional architecture. In Germany his Fagus factory buildings (1910-11) at Alfeld, with their glass walls, metal spandrels, and discerning use of purely industrial features, were among the most advanced works in Eu... Read more
Jacobean style
Jacobean style , an early phase of English Renaissance architecture and decoration. It formed a transition between the Elizabethan and the pure Renaissance style later introduced by Inigo Jones . The reign of James I (1603-25), a disciple of the new scholarship, saw the first decisive adoption of R... Read more
Rudolf Wittkower
Rudolf Wittkower , 1901-71, German-American art historian. After gaining his doctorate in Berlin, Wittkower became a research assistant and later research fellow at the Biblioteca Hertiziana, Rome (1923-33). He was (1934-56) on the staff of the Warburg Institute, London, and became professor at the ... Read more
Palenque
Palenque , ancient city of the Maya in Chiapas, S Mexico, in the Usumacinta Valley. Its architectural elegance, adapted to tropical and topographical conditions, was a high point in the art of the Classic period. Stucco sculpturing and low-relief paneling reached their highest expression at Palenq... Read more
Owings and Merrill Skidmore
Owings and Merrill Skidmore American architectural firm founded in 1936 in New York City by Louis Skidmore (1897-1962), Nathaniel A. Owings (1903-84), and John O. Merrill (1896-1975). The firm helped to popularize the International style during the postwar period. Their best-known early work is L... Read more
Chinese architecture
Chinese architecture the buildings and other structures created in China from prehistoric times to the present day. Early Architecture As a result of wars and invasions, there are few existing buildings in China predating the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Insubstantial construction, largely o... Read more
Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Henry-Russell Hitchcock 1903-87, American architectural historian, b. Boston. Educated at Harvard, Hitchcock taught at Smith College and New York Univ. His writings, which helped to define modern architecture stylistically during the course of its development, are among the foremost in the field. H... Read more
Gordon Bunshaft
Gordon Bunshaft 1909-90, American architect, b. Buffalo, N.Y. As chief designer for the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill , Bunshaft was responsible for Lever House, New York City's first glass curtain-wall skyscraper (1952), which has been widely imitated. Among his other works a... Read more
Anthony Frederick Blunt
Anthony Frederick Blunt 1907-83, English art historian and Soviet spy, grad. Cambridge. Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art after 1947 and professor of the history of art at the Univ. of London, Blunt also served from 1952 as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures and was one of the most powerful ... Read more
Russell Sturgis
Russell Sturgis stûr´jĬs , 1836-1909, American architect and writer, b. Baltimore co., Md., grad. College of the City of New York, 1856. He practiced architecture until 1880; the buildings he designed include the Flower Hospital in New York City and a chapel and several dormitories... Read more

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Jacobean style
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...an early phase of English Renaissance architecture and decoration. It formed a transition...Introduction to Elizabethan and Jacobean Architecture (1952) and J. Summerson, Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830 (rev. ed. 1963...
Talbot Faulkner Hamlin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...American historian of architecture, b. New York City. He...45), and professor of architecture there. Hamlin wrote Some...Architectural Libraries (1939), Architecture through the Ages (1940...Century Architecture (1952).
roof
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...was particularly elaborate in early Asian and Gothic architecture. In contemporary architecture, roofs can span great distances with little material...Hamlin, Forms and Functions of Twentieth-Century Architecture (1952).
Peter Harrison
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Harrison (1949). Hugh S. Morrison, Early American Architecture (1952), gives a short summary of Harrison's sources...analysis of Harrison's style and place in American architecture see Alan Gowans, Images of American Living (1964...
Fumihiko Maki
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...growth and vibrancy in Japanese architecture. Although still identified...including the 1993 Pritzker Architecture Prize and the Union Internationale...the University of Tokyo in 1952 with a degree in architecture, Maki pursued graduate work...
Chinese architecture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Chinese architecture the buildings and other...the present day. Early Architecture As a result of wars and...background of Chinese architecture has been somewhat clarified...1949. Discoveries in 1952 near Xi'an brought to...
Walter Gropius
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...leaders of modern functional architecture. In Germany his Fagus factory...where he headed the school of architecture at Harvard until 1952. His influence on the dissemination...His writings include The New Architecture and the Bauhaus (tr. 1935...
Jacobs, Jane
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Robert Hyde Jacobs Jr. She married him a month later, and the pair raised two sons and one daughter. Worked as Architecture Editor In 1952 Jacobs took a job as an editor at the magazine Architectural Forum. "I went to Architectural Forum, and they...
Joseph Black
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...works which discuss Black include Thomas W. Chalmers, Historic Researches: Chapters on the History of Physical and Chemical Discovery (1952), and Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield, The Architecture of Matter (1962). □
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...man shows at the Art Club, Vienna (1952); Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris (1954...Bluff of our Civilization" (Vienna, 1952); "Mouldiness Manifesto: Against Rationalism in Architecture" (Austria and Germany, 1958); "Les...

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Perret, Auguste
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...brothers Gustave (1876–1952) and Claude (1880–...a truly monumental work of architecture was created, with all the concrete...planned Church of St Joseph (1952). In all his works the discipline...of Architecture—1952). Bibliography Abram et al...
Villanueva, Carlos Raúl
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Auditorium (Aula Magna—1952), and the Covered Square (Plaza Cubierta—also 1952). He founded the School of Architecture in the University of Venezuela...arguably not produced great architecture. Bibliography Bullrich (1969...
community architecture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture community architecture. English housing movement...coined by Charles Knevitt (1952– ...associated with community architecture, as have concepts of...residents. Community architecture was endorsed by the Prince...
Visionary architecture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Visionary architecture. 1. The work of certain Neo-Classical...that were expressive of their purpose ( architecture parlante ). 2. Any imaginary scheme...Feuerstein (1988); E. Kaufmann (1952); Lampugnani (ed.) (1982); Rosenau...
Mumford, Lewis
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...a perceptive regular column on architecture and the environment for The New...urban densities. He insisted that architecture and planning had to be socially...1934, 1938, 1944, 1946, 1952, 1952 a , 1961, 1963, 1967, 1970...
Gibberd, Sir Frederick Ernest
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...London (1968–75), like much of his work, would be difficult to regard as great architecture. Bibliography Kalman (1994); Gibberd (1952, 1968, 1970, 1980); Gibberd & and Yorke (1978) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
Stilling, Harald Conrad
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Winter Tivoli’. Stilling's Boutique Schwartz, 3 Svaertegade, Copenhagen, was strongly influenced by Schinkel 's work. Stilling wrote a history of Church Architecture (1870). Bibliography Millech (1951); Weilbach (1952)
Dickerson, Ernest
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Cinematographer and Director. Nationality: American. Born: Newark, New Jersey, 1952. Education: Degrees from Howard University School of Architecture and New York University Graduate School of Film. Family: Married twice; second wife...
Fathy, Hassan
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...search for an inexpensive architecture for the poor. At New...His writings include Architecture for the Poor (1973...Energy and Vernacular Architecture (1986), and his individual...1945), Stopplaere (1952), Riad (1967...
Figini, Luigi
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Movement principles were applied. Their Church of the Madonna dei Poveri (1952–4), Milan, in which themes drawn from industrial and administrative architecture were adapted to a basilican arrangement, was influential. Bibliography...

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Theme: Centenary, 1952-1973. (architecture)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 5/1/1996; 700+ words ; ...did his PhD under Pevsner) joined in 1952. He made an almost immediate impact...Le Corbusier's apophthegm that 'L'Architecture, c'est avec des matieres bruts, etablir...p82) as a clarion call for making architecture the centre of architects' consideration...
Architecture: The city that Oscar built In 1952 the Brazilian government decided to create a futuristic capital on the remote savannah. The man who made Brasilia was Oscar Niemeyer. Now aged 90, he is still working, and his vision is inspiring a new generation of architects. Interview by Nonie Niesewand. Photographs by Chris Chapman
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/3/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...that have won him the Oscar of architecture, the Royal Gold Medal from...when my work began I saw that architecture did not express itself well...city, Brasilia. It came in 1952 at a time when there was a...things. When we got there in 1952 it was a desert land, hostile...
SERVICE SET FOR FOWLER, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ARCHITECTURE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 5/29/2008; 700+ words ; ...Fowler, a professor emeritus of architecture, will take place at 3 p...Shannon, dean of the School of Architecture. "He will be greatly missed...the University of Arkansas in 1952 to design the Animal Sciences...Marie Ellen "Judy" Booth in 1952, shortly before joining the...
Centennial events feature lectures by international architect Hiroshi Hara and K-State architecture professor Mick Charney.
M2 Presswire; 9/1/2004; 700+ words ; ...Hiroshi Hara and K-State architecture professor Mick Charney(C...MANHATTAN -- The centennial of architecture education at Kansas State...Victor L. Regnier Chair in Architecture at K-State, and Wayne Michael...State, who will discuss the 1952 visit to K-State by Frank...
Holocaust Museum Director Arthur Rosenblatt, 73
Newspaper article from: Forward; 1/14/2005; 556 words ; ...leading authorities on museum architecture and the founding director of...president and vice-director for architecture, eventually overseeing the...s degree at Cooper Union in 1952 and his architecture degree in 1956 from Carnegie...
James Martinelli Dies at 69; Ex-Vienna Mayor, Architect
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Falls Church in 1936. He was a 1946 graduate of St. John's College High School and a 1952 cum laude architecture graduate of Catholic University. From 1952 to the mid-1960s, he worked in the family architectural firm, Frank Martinelli & Son...
The complete guide to travels with Hitchcock From the cornfields of Bakersfield in `North By Northwest' to the stylish French Riviera in `To Catch A Thief', location was crucial to cinema's master of suspense. MARK CAMPBELL reports
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/7/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...to the European- influenced city of Quebec (0906 871 5000, www.quebecregion.com) for I Confess (1952). The medieval architecture of this historic French-speaking city added gravitas to its story of a Catholic priest (Montgomery Clift...
Sustainability, University Patronage Among Topics to be Explored atYale School of Architecture Events This Spring.
M2 Presswire; 1/10/2008; 700+ words ; ...Explored atYale School of Architecture Events This Spring(C)1994...Van Lengen "The Future of Architecture in Education" Participants...and Illiberal Thoughts on Architecture and Modernity: A Conversation...2005 (Yale B.F.A. 1952, M.F.A. 1954), is...
Former landscaper still loves the outside
Newspaper article from: Palatine Countryside (IL); 5/13/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...thought 'someday I'd like to design yards like this.' " He enrolled at Michigan State University in 1952, studying landscape architecture. When he graduated four years later at age 37, he learned his new career was more than planting pretty...
On his 80th birthday, landscape architect reflects on career
Newspaper article from: Barrington Courier-Review (IL); 5/20/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...thought 'someday I'd like to design yards like this.' " He enrolled at Michigan State University in 1952, studying landscape architecture. When he graduated four years later at age 37, he learned his new career was more than planting pretty...