G. Holmes Perkins papers and architectural records, 1897-2002 (bulk 1922-1990).

University of Pennsylvania.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q63gvj (corporateBody)

The Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania was part of the Towne Scientific School until 1920, when a separate School of Fine Arts was established, teaching architecture and other fine arts. Teaching staff and courses of instruction of the Towne Scientific School, Department of Architecture were listed in the Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania. The School of Fine Arts published its teaching staff, regulations, courses of study, competitons and, in some years, curre...

University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kj1f62 (corporateBody)

Loschetter, Leon.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mp5xbv (person)

American Society of Planners and Architects

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68d4rnk (corporateBody)

Qualls, George W. (George Wyckoff), 1923-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g16tpp (person)

Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s18205 (person)

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...

University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j43nm7 (corporateBody)

Perkins, Georgia Hencken, 1909-1994.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h718w7 (person)

Perkins, G. Holmes (George Holmes)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60z7xdp (person)

G. Holmes Perkins was born in 1904 in Cambridge, MA, the son of Philadelphia natives George Howard and Josephine Schock Perkins. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University (A.B. 1926; M. Arch. 1929). After a year as instructor at the University of Michigan, Perkins returned to Harvard to teach. He established his own architectural office, and completed a number of residential projects in the greater Boston area. The direction of Harvard's architect...

Giurgola, Romaldo.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62b9rqt (person)

American Institute of Architects

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p30qxv (corporateBody)

The Western Association of Architects (WAA) was founded in Chicago in 1884 as a rival organization of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Members consisted of architects from the Midwest and the South with chapters forming in many states. The WAA was the first architectural organization to petition for licensure of architects. Many architects were members of both WAA and AIA and a decision was made in 1889 for WAA to merge with AIA. From the guide to the Papers of the Western...

University of Pennsylvania. Graduate School of Fine Arts

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jt3sms (corporateBody)

Bendiner, Alfred.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fn20x8 (person)

Harvard university, Graduate school of design

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63r4kpv (corporateBody)

These models were created for the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition: Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, June 26-September 21, 2008. From the description of Models created after Buckminster Fuller designs by students of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2008. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754865251 Maria Kohlrausch worked in Dept. of Landscape Architecture 1928-1950. She corresponded with Harvard University Graduate School of Design stude...

Engman, Robert, 1927-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64j1056 (person)

Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w616565t (person)

Louis I. Kahn was born in Estonia and raised in Philadelphia. He was trained in architecture in the Beaux-Arts tradition at the University of Pennsylvania under Paul Philippe Cret. As a mature architect, Kahn was distinguished from his contemporaries (in a period dominated by the International Style) by his unique personal philosophy of architecture and a style marked by a profound sense of history and pure geometry in design and the texture of materials in construction. His legacy is as much in...