Peter Blake architectural records and papers, 1910-2006 (bulk 1980-2002)

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)...

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

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Architect, designer; Illinois, Wisconsin and Arizona. From the description of Frank Lloyd Wright textile design studies, [ca. 1955]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122971 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an American Architect internationally recognized for his distinctive Prairie Style houses, innovative building design, Taliesin school and fellowships, and philosophy of "organic architecture." From the guide to the Frank Lloyd Wright Miscel...

Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961

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Eero Saarinen was born in Kirkkonummi, Finland, on August 20, 1910. His father, the architect Eliel Saarinen, and his family moved to Michigan in 1921. After receiving a B.F.A. in Architecture from Yale University in 1934, Saarinen joined his father's firm (Saarinen, Saarinen and Swanson) and began work as an architect. After his father's death in 1950, Saarinen began to make a name for himself as an architect, started his own firm (Eero Saarinen and Associates), and established a reputation as ...

Blechman, R.O. (Robert O.), 1930-

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Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956

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Jackson Pollock was born in 1912, in Cody, Wyoming, the youngest of five sons. His family moved several times during his childhood, finally settling in Los Angeles. In 1930 he joined his older brother, Charles, in New York City, and studied with Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League of New York. Pollock worked during the 1930s for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. During 1936 he worked in artist David Alfaro Siqueiros's Experimental Workshop. In...

Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005

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Prominent New York architect. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and designed the State Theater at Lincoln Center in N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1927-1944. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 18376257 Architect, author, critic. Affiliated with the Museum of Modern Art, New York as the founder and director of the Dept. of Architecture (1932-34, 1952-1954), Trustee (1957- ), and donor. From the description of Philip Johnson pape...

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...

Stubbins, Hugh, 1912-2006

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Hugh Stubbins graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technolgy in 1931 and was awarded the MArch by the Harvard Graduart School of Design in 1935. At the invitation of Walter Gropius, Stubbins taught for more than a decade during the 1940's and 1950's at the GSD; in 1954 he left teaching to devote himself to his architectural firm, which was to become a highly successful international practice. Stubbins is perhaps best-known as the architect of large-scale urban structures which have become rec...

Kleihues, Josef Paul

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Brodovitch, Alexey, 1898-1971

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De Carlo, Giancarlo, 1919-2005

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Tafel, Edgar

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Architect, New York, N.Y. From the description of Edgar Tafel interview, 1990 May 16 - July 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220202566 Tafel, Edgar, Architect of New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Edgar Tafel 1990 May 16-July 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646399542 ...

Ellwood, Craig

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Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969

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German born architect. From the description of Manuscript fragment (n.d.) and letter, 1962 Nov.30. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 82217577 Architect. From the description of Reminiscences of Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122631918 Architect. Born in Aachen, Germany (1886). From the description of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe collection, 1929-1969....

Neski, Julian.

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Nervi, Pier Luigi

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Muschamp, Herbert

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Chermayeff, Ivan.

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Masey, Jack

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Saarinen, Aline B. (Aline Bernstein), 1914-1972

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Aline Saarinen (1914-1972) was an art and architectural critic in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.; She worked for the New York Times as an art and architectural critic. She married architect Eero Saarinen, the architect, after the dissolution of her first marriage to Joseph Louchheim. Aline Saarinen was the sister of art dealer Charles Alan. Eero was born in Helinski, Finland, son of architect Eliel Saarinen. From the description of Aline and Eero Saarinen papers, 19...

Moltke, Willo von

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Snibbe, Richard W.

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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...

Singh, Patwant, 1925-2009

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Seidler, Harry, 1923-2006

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Left his home city of Vienna in 1938 and lived in England until he was interned as an enemy alien. Established an architectural practice in Sydney in 1948. From the description of Personal and family papers [manuscript]. 1939-1979. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225851571 ...

Zevi, Bruno, 1918-2000

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D. January 9, 2000. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78575045 ...

Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl, 1903-1971

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Sibyl: architectural historian, critic, educator. Birthdate also cited as 1903. Died 1971. Laszlo: sculptor, designer, painter & photographer; Chicago, Illinois. Sibyl was born Dorothea Maria Pauline Alice Sybille Pietzsche in Dresden, Germany. An actress in Berlin during her twenties, she used the stage name Sibyl Peech. Eventually she shifted to a career in the scenario office of the Tobis [Moving] Picture Syndicate where she met Moholy-Nagy in 1929. They married i...

Wright, Lloyd, 1890-1978

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Lloyd Wright: b. 1890, Oak Park. Ill.; d. Santa Monica, Calif. 1978; architect and landscape architect. Son of Frank Lloyd Wright. From the description of Wayfarers' Chapel Fonds, 1937-1979. (Centre canadien d'architecture). WorldCat record id: 486957935 Lloyd Wright, eldest son of Frank Lloyd Wright, was born in 1890; trained as a draftsman/delineator in his father's Oak Park Studio; studied engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1908-9; joined Olmsted and Olmsted in Boston, MA; ...

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 ...

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. ...

Soriano, Rafael, 1920-

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Raefel Soriano (1920- ) is an artist in Miami, Fla. From the description of Oral history interview with Raefel Soriano, 1997 Dec. 6 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82463414 ...

Holzbauer, Wilhelm

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Venturi, Robert

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Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984

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Painter; Easthampton, N.Y. From the description of Lee Krasner interview, 1966 July 31 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82561305 Painter; Easthampton, N.Y.; b. 1908. From the description of Lee Krasner interview, 1972 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77755808 Painter; interviewee married Jackson Pollock, d.1984. From the description of Reminiscences of Lee Krasner : oral history, 1978. (Columbia University In...

Rogers, Ernesto N.

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Franzen, Ulrich, 1921-2012

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A graduate of Williams College and the GSD (MArch'48), Ulrich Franzen was among the most creative American architects in the second half of the twentieth century. After working for I.M. Pei after graduation, Franzen established his own practice in 1955 and has since made distinguished contributions to architecture, urban design and the theoretical and critical literature of design. Among numerous honors, Ulrich Franzen has received the Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture awarded by the Nation...

Soleri, Paolo, 1919-2013

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Tange, Kenzō, 1913-2005

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Kenzō Tange (b. 4 September 1913, Osaka, Japan–d. 22 March 2005, Tokyo, Japan) wan an architect and winner of 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture. He attended Nihon University and University of Tokyo and became an assistant professor at University of Tokyo. He developed an interest in urban studies, which was one of the reason he helped design new plans for Japanese cities destroyed in WWII. He designed many well known monuments and buildings including Peace Center in Hiroshima, Ise Shrine; Tok...

Masey, Mary Lou

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Kaufmann, Edgar, 1910-1989

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d. 1989. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 81396145 Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. (1910-1989) was an American industrial designer, architect and artist. He apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright (1933-1934) and his father, Edgar Kaufmann, Sr., commissioned Fallingwater from noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1936. Among his other accomplishments, he was director of the industrial de...

Rudolph, Paul, 1918-1997

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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. From the description of Paul Marvin Rudolph papers, 1947-1974 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702169784 d. 1997. From the description of Artist file ...

Oud, J.J.P. (Jacobus Johannes Pieter), 1890-1963

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Architect. From the description of The Influence of Frank Lloyd Wright on the Architecture of Europe, ca. 1922. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82839605 Dutch architect. From the description of J.J.P. Oud papers, 1907-1963, n.d. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78114358 From the description of Weissenhofsiedlung, 1927. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84394366 From the description of Maquette de maison de campagne [U...

Seldes, Timothy.

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Ungers, O. M. (Oswald Mathias)

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Oswald Mathias Ungers, born 1926; professor of architecture, Cornell University. From the description of Oswald Mathias Ungers papers, [ca.1970-1974]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64073781 ...

Neutra, Dion

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Richard Neutra was born in Vienna, Austria in1892 and moved to the U.S. with his bride in 1923. He eventually joined his college friend, noted architect Rudolf Schindler, in Southern California. Neutra's work through the 1930s and 1940s advanced the International style, leading to the creation of his masterwork, the Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, in 1946-47. He died on April 16, 1970. Dion Neutra was born in California in 1926. He graduated cum laude from the University...

Roche, Kevin, 1922-....

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Rich Hanley is Associate Professor of Journalism at Quinnipiac University. He is the director of the documentary Last Days of the Coliseum . From the guide to the Rich Hanley interview with Kevin Roche, 2009, (Manuscripts and Archives) ...

University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center

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