Walter Sanders papers 1929-1971 1937-1970

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)...

University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990

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American writer. From the description of Correspondence with Alfred S. Dashiell, 1931-1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51846130 Carl Zigrosser and Lewis Mumford were life-long friends with shared interests in the arts, society and politics. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1925-1971, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155902319 Sir Patrick Geddes was a Scottish biologist, sociologi...

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 ...

Unistrut Corporation, Wayne, Mich.

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Company established by Charles Attwood who was inventor and developer of a system of precast metal frame construction that came to be known as the Unistrut system. The company was originally known as Deceleco. From the description of Unistrut Corporation photographs. 1930s-1960s (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 44460326 Deceleco, Inc., the predecessor company to the Unistrut Corporation, was established in 1924 by Charles At...

University of Michigan. College of Architecture and Design

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Sanders, Walter, 1906-1972.

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Architect, professor of architecture at the University of Michigan. From the description of Walter Sanders papers, 1929-1971 (bulk 1937-1970). (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 81408943 Walter Sanders was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on July 30, 1906. He graduated from the University of Illinois (B.S. in architecture, 1929) and the University of Pennsylvania (Master of Architecture, 1930). A practicing architect throughout his career, Sanders was also...

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969

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Architect, educator. Studied architecture at the Universities of Charlottenburg-Berlin and Munich, Germany from 1903 to 1907. Founded and directed the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar in 1919, which Gropius moved to Dessau in 1925 and renamed "Bauhaus Dessau". Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1937 and Chairman of the Department of Architecture from 1938 to 1952. Formed the Architects' Collaborative in Cambridge in 1946. For further information see James ...