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American architect Cass Gilbert A major exhibit and a fascinating new book celebrate the work of forgotten master, Cass Gilbert.
American Colonial Architecture Your starting place for exploring architecture in the American colonies, with facts, photos and resources.
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Architecture in the The United States Use this directory to find facts and photos for historic or important architecture in the USA
Happy Birthday, Alvar Aalto Finnish architect Alvar Aalto was born on born February 3, 1898. Often called the "Father of Modern Scandinavian Architecture," Aalto was celebrated for both his buildings and his furniture designs. Learn more about Alvar Aalto......
The Jewish contribution to modern architecture, 1830-1930
THE JEWISH CONTRIBUTION TO MODERN ARCHITECTURE, 1830-1930 By Fredric Bedoire. Jersey City: KTAV Publishing House, in collaboration with Paideia--the ......(Continue Reading) Becoming Corbusier: a recent exhibition traced the development of this seminal 20th-century figure from provincial designer to modern architectural master
"He lives in the extraordinary world of the acrobat" was how Le Corbusier referred to himself, describing his profession of architecture in My Work (published in 1960, five years before his death)....(Continue Reading)Marble Palaces, Temples of Art: Art Museums, Architecture, and American Culture, 1890-1930. - Brief Article - Review - book reviews
Marble Palaces, Temples of Art: Art Museums, Architecture, and American Culture, 1890-1930, by Ingrid A. Steffensen-Bruce, Lewisburg, Pa., Bucknell University Press, 1998; 265 pages, $60. Dubin a...(Continue Reading)Modern classics: Peter York on how postwar buildings went from the height of fashion to yesterday's news - Architecture 2
We fashionable people began to see them differently in, oh, the early 1990s: those postwar, pre-1980s buildings, mostly mid-century modernism-curtain ......(Continue Reading)The American century: photography battles with its limitations. Political engagement turns viewers into aesthetes, while impassive images ultimately provoke
A photograph is neither cruel nor tender, it is totally impassive, and photographers expend much energy coping with this fact. Photography could be seen, throughout its history, as attempting to ov...(Continue Reading)
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