Oral history interview with Pietro Belluschi

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The Department of General Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) did not officially exist until 1882. Courses in general studies were offered as early as 1865, when the MIT Catalog offered a curriculum option called the Course in Science and Literature. At that time, all regular MIT students were required to take “general studies” classes from the Course in Science and Literature, in addition to English, history, and modern languages. In 1882 the Course in Scienc...

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...

Belluschi, Pietro, 1899-1994

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Architect; Portland, Or. Died Feb. 1994. From the description of Pietro Belluschi interviews, 1983 Aug. 22 - Sept. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220184885 From the description of Pietro Belluschi interviews, 1983 Aug. 22 - Sept. 4 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007028 Pietro Belluschi (1899-1994) was an architect from Portland, Or. From the description of Oral history interview with Pietro Belluschi, 1983 Aug. 22-Sept. 4. (Unkno...

Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976

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Finnish architect. From the description of Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material]. (Metropolitan Museum of Art). WorldCat record id: 193697446 In 1961, noted American architectural patron, curator and critic Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr. commissioned noted Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and his wife, architect Elissa Aalto, to design a suite of meeting areas on the 12th floor of the Institute of International Education's headquarters in New York City. Construct...

Clausen, Meredith L.

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