Dearstyne, Howard

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1903, Aug. 2 Born, Albany, N.Y. 1925 A.B., Columbia College, New York, N.Y. 1925 1928 Studied at Columbia School of Architecture, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 1928 1932 Studied at Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany 1932 1933 Studied at Bauhaus, Berlin, Germany 1933 1934 Studied privately under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1935 1939 Designer, Wallace K. Harrison and J. A. Fouilhoux, architects, New York, N.Y. 1940 1941 New York, N.Y. New York City Chelsea New York New Hope, Pa. New Hope Designer, Raymond Loewy, New York, N.Y., and Antonin Raymond, New Hope, Pa. 1941 1942 Instructor in architecture and structural design, Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, N.C. 1943 1944 Assistant professor and resident architect, Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis. 1944 Married Barbara Louise Timmons 1944 1946 Head, Department of Design, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. 1946 1956 Assistant architectural records editor, Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Va. 1946 1957 Lecturer in architectural design, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va. 1954 1957 Director, Society of Architectural Historians 1957 1971 School of Architecture and Planning, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Ill. Chicago Associate professor of architecture, School of Architecture and Planning, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill. 1967 1968 Associate editor, Inland Architect 1979, Mar. 7 Died, Alexandria, Va. 1986 Inside the Bauhaus, edited by David Spaeth (New York, N.Y.: Rizzoli, 1986. 288 pp.)

From the guide to the Howard Dearstyne Papers, 1911-1986, (bulk 1953-1971), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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  • Architecture, Colonial

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  • Architect

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  • Virginia (as recorded)

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