Natalie de Blois working drawings and students' studio work, 1965, 1979-1990.

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Natalie de Blois working drawings and students' studio work, 1965, 1979-1990.

Natalie de Blois (1921- ) was active in the field of architecture from the 1950s through the 1990s. Her professorship at the University of Texas at Austin spanned from 1980-1990. This collection includes working drawings of projects for which de Blois was the designer; and the work of students who participated in her studios at the University of Texas School of Architecture (1985-1987, 1989-1990).

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De Blois, Natalie, 1921-2013

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Natalie de Blois was born in Paterson, New Jersey on April 2, 1921, the daughter of a civil engineer who encouraged her to study architecture. As a child, her father demanded that she be allowed to take mechanical drawing at her junior high school. When the Depression derailed her plans to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she instead enrolled as one of five female students at the Columbia School of Architecture, where she graduated in 1944. When she graduated in Jan...

University of Texas at Austin. School of Architecture

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The School of Architecture was established within The University of Texas Engineering Department in 1910, when Dean T. U. Taylor of the Department of Engineering appointed Hugo F. Kuehne as the first faculty member of the School of Architecture. In 1920, the Department of Engineering became the College of Engineering, and the School of Architecture became the Department of Architecture within the College of Engineering. Architecture functioned as a "semiautonomous school" until it was granted fu...