Serge Chermayeff architectural records and papers, 1909-1980 1930s-1970s

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983

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Architect, inventor, scientist, teacher, philosopher, creator of the geodesic dome and the Dymaxion car. From the description of Letter, 1958 Feb. 10, Clemson, S.C. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 33018576 Mark Burginer is a California-based architect, whose interest in Buckminster Fuller's synergetic geometry led to some correspondence between them during the early 1980s. From the description of Letters to Mark Burginger, 1980-1981. (Unknown)...

Chermayeff, Ivan.

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Institute of Design Chicago, Ill

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Mendelsohn, Erich, 1887-1953

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German architect. From the description of Design, ca. 1924. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81952229 Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from architect Eric Mendelsohn and his wife, Louise Mendelsohn. All letterheads and signatures by Mendelsohn in this file spell his first name as "Eric," not "Erich." From the description of Letters to Lewis Mumford, 1941-1975, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122526818 German a...

Sekler, Eduard F. (Eduard Franz)

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Bentley Wood (Sussex, England)

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Blake, Peter, 1920-2006

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Peter Blake was a noted architect and author of architectural publications. He was associated with "Architectural Forum," a leading and influential journal, from 1942 to 1972, as a contributing author and editor. From 1955 to 1957 he was the architecture editor of "House and Home." He also was chief publisher of "Architecture Plus" from 1972-1975. He was the author of more than 15 books on architecture and architects. Blake was a critic of modern architecture and wrote extensively on the topic. ...

Sert, José Luis (1902-1983).

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Josep Lluis Sert received a degree in architecture in 1929 from Barcelona's ESA in the 1930s. Among the leading young Spanish architects in the 1930s, he gained an international reputation with his design for the Spanish Pavilion built for the 1937 Paris Exposition. Emigrating to the United states in 1941, he was from 1941-1958 a founding partner in Town Planning Associates and in 1955, he opened his own firm, Sert Jackson, & Associates, in Cambridge, MA. SJA's work included residences, muse...

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965

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Architect. Le Corbusier, born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, adopted pseudonym Le Corbusier, 1920. Studied engraving at School of Applied Arts, La Chaux de Fonds, 1900-1905. Employed in office of architect Josef Hoffmann, Vienna, in 1907; August Perret, Paris, and with Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, Berlin, in 1910. Founder-Director, L'Atelier d'Art Réunis, La Chaux de Fonds, 1909-1914, and Instructor, l'Eplattenier's Nouvelle Section de l'Ecole d'Art, La Chaux de Fonds, 1911-1914; also work...

Giedion, S. (Sigfried), 1888-1968

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Swiss historian of art and architecture. From the description of Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1964. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63585402 ...

Brooklyn College. Theatre Research Data Center

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Curator's Office was renamed Bursar's Office. From the description of Curator's reports, 1934-1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155451274 The Ditmas House was a Dutch style wooden frame house built in 1827 and occupied by the Ditmas family. A century later, Charles Ditmas, the founder of Kings County Historical Society, helped to make way for Brooklyn's Ditmas farmhouse to become the site for part of the Brooklyn College campus. In 1935, the Ditmas House passed into the c...

Gropius, Ise

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Ise or Ilse Gropius (born Ilse Frank) was married to Walter Gropius, the German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School in Dessau, from 1923 until his death in 1969. The couple moved from Britian to Lincoln, Massachusetts in the spring 1937. They had one daughter, Ati Gropius. From the description of Ilse Gropius Correspondence, 1940-1974. 1940-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 752388772 Ise Gropius was the widow of Walter Gropius; Müller was an archivist at the Bauh...

Coates, Wells, 1895-1958

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Wells Wintemute Coates (1895-1958) was born in Tokyo, Japan. B.S., Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1921; Ph.D., Engineering, University of London, 1924. In the office of Adams and Thompson, London, 1924. Founder, with Maxwell Fry, of the English Modern Architecture Research Group, 1933. In private practice, London, 1929-1939, 1945-1952, 1956-1958. In partnership with Patrick Gwynne; with Jacqueline Tyrwhitt; and with Michael Lyell. Major works include Lawn Road Flats, Ham...

Gropius Walter 1883 1969

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Chermayeff, Serge, 1900-1996

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Chermayeff taught architecture at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Serge Ivan Chermayeff, 1945-1947 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973005 Architect, educator. From the description of Oral history interview with Serge Chermayeff, 1985 May 23-24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77808794 Sergei Ivanovitch Issakovitch was born on October 8, 1900, in Grozny, then in Caucasia. He was educated in England, where he took the nam...

De La Warr Pavilion.

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Breuer, Marcel, 1902-

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Kepes, György (1906-2001).

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Gyorgy Kepes (1906-2001) was a painter and educator from Cambridge, Mass. From the description of Oral history interview with Gyorgy Kepes, 1972 Mar. 7-1973 Jan. 11 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495596647 From the description of Oral history interview with Gyorgy Kepes, 1968 Aug. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477499 Gyorgy Kepes; artist and aesthetic theorist; born 1906 in Selyp, Hungary; taught at New Bauhaus in Chicago and at Massachuse...

Ketchum, Gina and Sharp.

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Taylor, Charles H

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Tyrwhitt, Jaqueline

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Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (1905-1983) was a pioneer in the field of town planning. In an international career spanning sixty years, she practised as a landscape architect and town planner in addition to teaching and research, and contributed greatly to the professional associations in her field, particularly to the Congres Internationeaux d'Architecture Moderne. In later years she edited the international journal, 'Ekistics'. Tyrwhitt was born in South Africa but moved to London at an early age. Initia...

Rudolph, Paul 1918-

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Paul Marvin Rudolph was born in Elton, Kentucky, on October 23, 1918. He designed several major architectural works, including the Art and Architecture Library at Yale University. Rudolph served as chairman of the Yale University Department of Architecture and as James M. Hoppin Professor from 1958-1965. Paul Marvin Rudolph, architect and educator, was born October 23, 1918, in Elton, Kentucky. He graduated from Alabama Polytechnic Institute (B.A., 1940) and Harvard Univ...

International Congress for Modern Architecture

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The foundation of CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne) in 1928 has been called the beginning of the "academic" phase of modern architecture. In two periods, 1930-1934 and 1950-1956, CIAM was the major instrument through which the ideas of modern architecture and town planning were made known to the world; during the war years it maintained the nucleus of an international network of communications among progressive-minded architects. From the description of Papers of ...

Wurster, William Wilson

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Biographical Note William W. Wurster/Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons William Wilson Wurster, born in California in 1895, earned his degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1919. After obtaining his license in 1922, he worked briefly in firms in Sacramento and New York, then opened the firm William W. Wurster in 1924. He gained national recognition early in his career with an award-winning design for t...

Cutting, Hayward

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Royal institute of British architects

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The Royal Institute of British Architects is the UK body for architecture and the architectural profession. From the guide to the Oxfordshire Society of Architects collection, 17th century-20th century, (Special Collections and Archives, Headington Library, Oxford Brookes University) ...

Gideonse, Harry David, 1901-1985

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Educator, author, President of Brooklyn College, 1939-1966. From the description of Papers, 1925-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155453746 Educator, College president. From the description of Reminiscences of Harry David Gideonse : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734431 ...

Alexander, Christopher, 1936-....

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Eckbo, Garrett

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Garrett Eckbo studied landscape architecture at UC Berkeley graduating in 1935. He then attended Harvard University's Graduate School of Design where with classmates Dan Kiley and James Rose led the "Harvard Revolution," ushering in the modern period in landscape design. Following graduation in 1938, Eckbo worked as a landscape architect for Norman Bel Geddes on the General Motors Pavilion for the 1939 World's Fair in New York and for the Farm Security Administration. Eckbo taught at the Univers...

Church, Thomas Dolliver 1902-1978

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Biography Thomas "Tommy" Dolliver Church was born in Boston but grew up in San Francisco, where he worked as a landscape architect for more than fifty years. He is credited with being the creator of the "modern garden." He was educated at the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard. Following graduation in 1922, he traveled extensively in Europe on a Sheldon Travelling Fellowship. Upon his return to the United States, he began teaching...

Baldwin Kingrey (Firm)

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Practical Equipment Ltd.

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Gilbey House (London, England)

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Hamyln House (London, England)

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Wachsmann, Konrad, 1901-1980

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German-American architect. From the description of Konrad Wachsmann autobiography and inventory of drawings, 1981. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80460942 ...

Cutting, Heyward

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Plunz, Richard.

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Richard Plunz is a professor of architecture and a leader of the Urban Design Research Group in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. His research covers issues of urban design, housing, community, and social policy. From the description of Richard Plunz papers, 1935-1999 (bulk 1980-1999). (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 276487177 ...

Sert, Jose Luis

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Weingarten Brothers Showrooms (London, England)

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Yale University.

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Born, Ernest, 1898-1992

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Ernst Born was an architect, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a frequent collaborator with Walter Horn. From the description of Ernest Born architectural drawings of medieval aisled timber halls. ca. 1944-ca. 1981. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 419226654 Ernest Born was born in 1898. He studied architecture under John Galen Howard at UC Berkeley and then went to work in Europe. On his return he worked in New York for almost ten years...

Tzonis, Alexander

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