Moshe Safdie interviews

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

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Architect, designer; Illinois, Wisconsin and Arizona. From the description of Frank Lloyd Wright textile design studies, [ca. 1955]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122971 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an American Architect internationally recognized for his distinctive Prairie Style houses, innovative building design, Taliesin school and fellowships, and philosophy of "organic architecture." From the guide to the Frank Lloyd Wright Miscel...

Gehry, Frank O., 1929-

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Frank O. Gehry (1929-) was born in Toronto, Ont. B. Arch., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1954; Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1956-1957. Principal, Frank O. Gehry and Associates, Los Angeles, since 1962. Major works include Gehry House, Santa Monica, 1978-1979; Mid-Atlantic Toyota Distributorship Offices, Glen Burnie, Maryland, 1978; Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, 1981-1984; California Aerospace Museum, Los Angeles, 1982-1984; Vitra Design Mus...

Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970

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Richard Josef Neutra was born in 1892 in Vienna; immigrated to US, 1923; Frank Lloyd Wright invited him to Taliesin during the fall of 1924; Neutra moved to Los Angeles, CA, 1925; most productive years were during 1930s and 1940s; spent most of his last decade in partnership with his son, Dion; published several books, including Wie baut Amerika? (1927) and Survival through design (1954); died in 1970. From the description of Papers, 1925-1970. (University of California, Los Angeles)...

Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974

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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...

Safdie, Moshe, 1938-....

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Schindler, R. M. (Rudolph M.), 1887-1953

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Austrian architect who moved to the United States to work with F.L. Wright, settling finally in Los Angeles. From the description of R. M. Schindler, Architect, 1948. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84387916 American architect, whose work attracted young European architects, such as the Austrian-born R.M. Schindler, to the United States. From the description of Frank Lloyd Wright correspondence with R.M. Schindler, 1914-1929 (bulk 1918-1922). (Get...

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...

Mendelsohn, Erich, 1887-1953

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German architect. From the description of Design, ca. 1924. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81952229 Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from architect Eric Mendelsohn and his wife, Louise Mendelsohn. All letterheads and signatures by Mendelsohn in this file spell his first name as "Eric," not "Erich." From the description of Letters to Lewis Mumford, 1941-1975, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122526818 German a...

Meier, Richard, 1934-....

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American architect and artist. From the description of Postcard collection, 1970-1976. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 83286995 ...

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...