Architects’ interviews collection 1992-1993

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Architects’ interviews collection 1992-1993

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Collection includes interviews by George M. Goodwin of four architects: Gunnar Birkerts, Helmut Jahn, Philip Johnson, and Cesar Pelli, who express their opinions on significant examples and influences on 20th century architecture.

4 audio cassettes; ( linear feet)

eng,

University of Minnesota Libraries. Northwest Architectural Archives, Manuscripts Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6618175

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Goodwin, George M.

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Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) was an influential modernist architect and furniture designer. Born in Hungary of Jewish descent, he worked with Gropius and studied and taught at the Bauhaus. Among his notable buildings are the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, and St. John's Abbey and other buildings on the St. John's University campus in Collegeville, Minnesota. Achievements of Max Abramovitz's firm, Harrison, Abramovitz, &amp...

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...

Pelli, Cesar

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Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects was founded in 1977 by Cesar Pelli, a former associate of Eero Saarinen and Victor Gruen. The firm has received a number of awards and accolades, including the American Institute of Architects' Firm Award and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Cesar Pelli was awarded the AIA Gold Medal in 1995. Pelli also served as Dean of the Yale School of Architecture from 1977 to 1984, and was made an honorary Doctor of Arts by Yale University in 2008. From the gui...

Jahn, Helmut, 1940-....

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Birkerts, Gunnar

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Gunnar Birkerts is an internationally acclaimed architect of the last half of the twentieth century who has been recognized for his expressive forms, his simplification of detail, his innovative work with surface materials and his effective use of indirect daylight. With his design flexibility and commitment to "finding poetry in building technology," he has pushed beyond the boundaries of the Modern Movement. [1] Born on January 17, 1925, in Riga, Latvia, Gunnar Birkert...