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Louis Henri Sullivan
Louis Henri Sullivan Louis Henri Sullivan (1856-1924), American architect, was the link between Henry Hobson Richardson and Frank Lloyd Wright in the development of modern American architecture. Louis Sullivan was born in Boston on Sept. 3, 1856. Always impatient with classroom education, he... Read more |
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Frank Lloyd Wright
WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD 1867-1959 Architect America's Premier Architect One of the world's most famous architects, Frank Lloyd Wright had a profound and enduring effect on Western architecture. His professional career spanned seventy years, starting with a revival of past styles and continuing through... Read more |
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Frank Gehry
Gehry, Frank February 28, 1929 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada Architect Over the years many adjectives have been used to describe Frank Gehry's creations, including edgy, forward-looking, astonishing, and weird. Anything but ordinary, Gehry challenged the mainstream in... Read more |
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Luis Barragan
Luis Barragán A Mexican architect and landscape architect, Luis Barrag Read more |
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Peter Behrens
Peter Behrens , 1868-1940, German architect, influential in Europe in the evolution of the modern architectural style. He established before World War I a predominantly utilitarian type of architecture that at the same time achieved qualities of clarity and impressiveness. His factory buildings were... Read more |
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Industrial design
Industrial Design. As industrialization accelerated and consumer goods proliferated after 1865, competition forced manufacturers to focus on product appearance. Ordinary citizens aspired to comfort, even luxury: patent furniture, lush domestic interiors, eclectic mail‐order goods. New... Read more |
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Cesar Pelli
Cesar Pelli Acclaimed by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1991 as one of the ten most influential living American architects, Cesar Pelli (born 1926) has de signed some of the most remarkable buildings Read more |
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Sir Frank Brangwyn
Brangwyn, Sir Frank (1867–1956). British painter, graphic artist, and designer, born in Bruges, the son of a Welsh architect who specialized in church furnishings. The family returned to Britain in 1875 and from 1882 to 1884 Brangywn was apprenticed to the great designer-craftsman William ... Read more |
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Carlo Fontana
Carlo Fontana , 1634-1714, Italian architect. During his early years he worked for three of the most important architects of the high baroque period—Rainaldi, Cortona, and Bernini. His works include various palaces, fountains, tombs, and the Church of San Marcello al Corso (1682-83) in Rome... Read more |
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Mnesicles
Mnesicles , Greek architect, 5th cent. BC He designed the propylaea , and the Erechtheum is also sometimes ascribed to him. Both are on the acropolis at Athens.... Read more |
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Building blocks: What happens when architects turn their hand to art?
Unlike artists, architects have practical responsibilities...THE AMERICAN ARTIST Frank Stella once called architects "guys in suits who...what happens when architects give up building...After working as an architect for several ... |
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Frank Stella Art Car, a BMW M1 Procar Model, Is Acquired by Collector...
Stella Art Car to Go on Public...has acquired the Frank Stella BMW M1 racing...Siegel & Associates' architect, Joe Ruocco. Explains...Commissioned in 1979, the Frank Stella BMW M1 Procar...and Andy Warhol. The ... |
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BMW of Southampton's Jonathan Sobel Acquires a Frank Stella BMW M1 Racing Car
...said he has acquired the Frank Stella BMW M1 racing car, becoming...Siegel & Associates' architect, Joe Ruocco. Sobel said...Commissioned in 1979, the Frank Stella BMW M1 Procar was...and Andy Warhol. The Frank ... |
 "The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)")
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An Offer We Can't Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America.(Book Review)
...Court justices. One president of Harvard (Neil Rudenstine). One of Yale (A. Bartlett Giamatti). Painter Frank Stella. Architect Robert Venturi. Novelist Don DeLillo. Lots of big-time doctors, lawyers and other professionals. Pretty... |
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Sculpture rooms feted.(LIFE)(PARTY LINES)
...Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV and Sharon Percy Rockefeller, Teresa Heinz and Sen. John F. Kerry, artist Frank Stella, architect I.M. Pei, Calvin and Jane Cafritz, Bill and Buffy Cafritz, Robert and Louisa Duemling, Roger and Vicki... |
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Stella stars again
...New York: at the Givon is Frank Stella and at the Julie M. Gallery...gallery and which represent Stella's recent activities as an architect and would-be designer of...rushing to view this aspect of Stella's exhibition, his paintings... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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Capturing the soul of `Moby-Dick'
...Siah Armajani, Alexander Calder, Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, Richard Serra, Stephen Holl, and Frank Stella. Holl, an innovative architect, designed a Martha's Vineyard house inspired by Melville's description of a whale's skeleton... |
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Habitable sculptures; Kreeger Museum showcases Philip Johnson's last...
...as most of the architect's earlier work...nest. Who says architects have no sense of...halfheartedly connects the architect to the art world...Andy Warhol and Frank Stella among the architectural...between what the architect ... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Win ten pairs of tickets to the Summer Exhibition 2000 at the Royal Academy...
...bringing together paintings, sculptures, drawings and models by Britain's most distinguished artists and architects. Frank Stella's vast canvases occupy the gallery which, last year, housed Hockney's Grand Canyon paintings, while Eduardo... |
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Richard Meier, architect; v.5.(Brief article)(Book review)
...9780847830695 Richard Meier, architect; v.5. Meier, Richard...documents the renowned architect's work since publication...postscript by artist Frank Stella who reminisces about...friendship with the architect. A chronology and selected... |
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