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	RECORDS OF THE CIAM BELGIAN SECTION, 1928-1958 (bulk 1934-1958) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Founded in 1928 at the Château de La Sarraz, Switzerland by Le Corbusier, Sigfried Giedion and architectural patroness Hélène de Mandrot, CIAM served for several decades as the organizational center of the modern movement in architecture.
		Between 1928 and 1957, CIAM organized a series of ten formal congresses and additional CIAM council or CIRPAC meetings under the directorship of its CIRPAC committee (Comité international pour la réalisation des problèmes d'architecture contemporaine), together with an eleventh congress in 1959 under reformulated directorship.
		1928 during their architectural studies at the Académie de Liège (presumably the Académie royale des beaux-arts de Liège), and who at the time of their joining CIAM were editing a journal, called L’Equerre, which championed the cause of modern architecture and city planning (see related collection: L'Equerre; Records, 1928-1960; accn.
	www.getty.edu /research/tools/special_collections/ciam_m4.html (887 words)

	CIAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The destiny of architecture is to express the orientation of the age.
		Thus architecture must be set free from the sterilizing grip of the academies that are concerned with preserving the formulas of the past.
		Crow) were advocating an architecture for the new demands of the age utilizing the new materials and the new construction techniques in an attempt to design for the future, yet neglected that little known fact that creations bring about their own pathetic and oh-so-anticipated destruction.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~arendt/topic_7.html (1130 words)

	AllRefer.com - Fiske Kimball (Architecture, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He was professor of architecture and fine arts at the Univ. of Michigan (1912–19) and of art and architecture at the Univ. of Virginia (1919–23) and was in charge of the fine arts department, New York Univ. (1923–25).
		Much of his architectural work consisted of the restoration of old houses, e.g., of Monticello, the Jefferson home, near Charlottesville, and Stratford, the seat of the Lees, both in Virginia.
		He was also the author of Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies (1922), American Architecture (1928), and The Creation of the Rococo (1943).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/KimballF.html (249 words)

	Materials & Construction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For all of architecture's apparent grandness of scale, it is in the details that the architectural idea is rendered.
		The Facades Handbook is a textbook for practitioners of architecture, as well as structural and environmental engineers who wish to broaden their study beyond the information provided in the «Walls» chapter of the Modern Construction Handbook.
		This second volume of The Details of Modern Architecture continues the study of the relationships of the ideals of design and the realities of construction in modern architecture, beginning in the late 1920s and extending to the present day.
	booklounge.com /index.php/books/architecture/materials-construction?... (1015 words)

	IAWA Guide to the Collections at Virginia Tech's Digital Library and Archives, Special Collections, University Libraries
		Facility architect at the Faculty of Architecture of the University in Zagreb, Croatia (formerly Yugoslavia).
		Papers consist of architectural drawings, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and files that detail the many facets of her career as educator, architect, and advocate of women in architecture; audio tape.
		Most of the materials focus on her architectural projects when she worked at other architects' offices, and as an independent architect, where most of her projects were focused in the New York area.
	spec.lib.vt.edu /iawa/guide.html (10396 words)

	ArchitectureWeek New Books Listing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Reflections on architecture and the exchange of information in the spaces and places of the city, from the necessity of skyscrapers in an age of Web sites to cities as talent magnets, from architectural bling to the neo-minimalism of the new MoMA.
		Winfried Nerdinger is director of the museum of architecture of the Technical University of Munich and heads the architecture department at the Gallery of Modern Art.
		Architectural modernism was revolutionary when it first appeared in the 1920s, and its innovation showed the world just what twentieth-century design could bring.
	www.architectureweek.com /new_books.html (11557 words)

	Phillip Jacobson, FAIA, biographical collection, 1958-1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Phil Jacobson exhibit material, oral history, and related documents were donated to the Washington State University Libraries by the university Department of Architecture in 2000 (UA2000-34).
		1928, studied architecture at Washington State University, graduating in 1952.
		He worked with architectural firms in the Seattle area in the following years, chiefly with TRA, a firm in which he was a principal partner.
	www.wsulibs.wsu.edu /holland/masc/finders/cg687.htm (169 words)

	IAWA Association for Women in Architecture Records
		The Association for Women in Architecture (AWA) was originally founded in 1922 as Alpha Alpha Gamma, a national sorority for women architecture students.
		In 1934 the alumnae of the sorority formed the Association of Women in Architecture (AWA) as an organization for professional women architects.
		The records were deposited in June 1988 by the Association for Women in Architecture and August 1989 by Lorraine Rudoff, AWA historian.
	spec.lib.vt.edu /IAWA/inventories/AWA.html (278 words)

	Lawrence B. Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"The change from the architecture of the previous periods to the modern movement was a very fundamental change and Andy was the inspiration in Boston for that change," said William E. Hartmann '38, a retired partner of the architecture firm of Skidmore, Ownings, & Merrill who studied under Anderson at MIT.
		Anderson was born in Geneva, Minn. in 1906.
		He earned a bachelor's degree in liberal arts in 1927 and a bachelor's degree in architecture in 1928, both from the University of Minnesota.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V114/N20/anderson.20n.html (634 words)

	1928 article - 1928 1925 1926 1927 1929 1930 1931 Decades 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		January 17 - OGPU arrests Lev Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled to Turkestan
		November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.
		1928 article - 1928 definition - what means 1928
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/1928 (1229 words)

	:..::. Museum Of Architecture ..:::.:: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He became interested in Seljuk and Islamic architecture, and in 1909 took up a post at the Academy of Fine Arts (Sanayi-i Nefise Mekteb-i Âlisi) in Istanbul, under the directorship of Osman Hamdi Bey, (1883-1910).
		In Ankara his buildings include the Ulus branch of the Ottoman Bank (1926), the Inhisarlar (Monopolies) Headquarters (1928), Ziraat Bank General Headquarters Building (1926-29), and the Turkish Is Bank Headquarters (1929); as well as the Çelik Palas Hotel, Bursa (1930-32)
		Giulio Mongeri was invited to Architecture Department of [ Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi (School of Fine A...
	www.archmuseum.org /biyografi.asp?id=27 (374 words)

	Artfacts.Net: Sert, half a century of architecture 1928 — 1979
		It opens with a biographical section, showing the multiple facets of this man who was architect, town planner and university professor and who had close links with the visual arts.
		After this come drawings, photographs and other visual stimuli that help visitors to understand the projects grouped by themes according to their public and social uses: from university buildings to individual houses, from public amenities to residential blocks, and finally spaces used for art, such as Miró’s own studio and the Joan Miró Foundation building.
		The statement is always the same as the one applied to the Holyoke Center: architecture (understood as construction) is possible provided there is an idea (planning) of city.
	www.artfacts.net /index.php/pageType/exhibitionInfo/exhibition/18593 (334 words)

	Working Dogs Book Store - Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century ...
		It might be arguable whether Kenneth Frampton is an excellent architectural theorist, but he is definitely one of the most critical analysists and knowlegeable historians.
		People might argue that studies architecture only by their tectonic quality reveals only partially of the architect's intent and this is why I think Frampton misunderstood Mies' intent.
		One of the biggest problems of contemporary architecture theorists is lacking of professional knowledges and architectural analytical skills.
	www.workingdogs.com /bookstore/us/product/0262561492.htm (405 words)

	Art of Architecture: Modernism in Memphis
		The early propagandist of modern architecture were convinced that a century-old problem had been solved in their own times, that a genuine modern style rather than a revival of past forms had at last been achieved.
		By the mid-1960s, the issues facing architecture and architects emerged as minimal and unimaginative replicas of modern architecture’s seminal works; city planning by planning bureaucracies rather than thoughtful architects; and functional discipline of Modernism was co-opted by profit-driven real estate developers.
		A new, austere architecture with no apparent reference to historic styles and forms but one that was accompanied by prophetic statements about the changing nature of industrial production and the new order of society.
	www.memphisheritage.org /MHIHost/Read-ModernismInMemphis.html (10427 words)

	ArchitectureWeek Books Recommended
		An accessible, inspiring and informative overview of world architecture, with lots of full-color cutaway drawings, and clear explanations.
		Corbu's own historic architectural manifesto from the very beginning of the Modern era in architecture, reprinted by Dover.
		Architecture book publishers are invited to provide review copies for possible book review coverage and listing in the collection:
	www.architectureweek.com /books.html (1134 words)

	Amazon.com: Light Revealing Architecture (Architecture): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Light Revealing Architecture Marietta S. Millet The emotional and physiological impact of lighting has become one of the leading issues in today’s design professions.
		In Light Revealing Architecture, nationally recognized authority Marietta Millet goes beyond fixtures and hardware, lumens and light bulbs to explore the timeless principles of lighting, as evidenced in architecture, by using examples ranging from ancient to contemporary buildings.
		In this groundbreaking book, Millet bridges gaps that currently exist between how architecture is taught in schools and what methods are practiced in the profession.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471286443?v=glance (1100 words)

	1928 in architecture -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		(additional info and facts about architecture timeline) architecture timeline.
		First (additional info and facts about Dymaxion House) Dymaxion House is designed by (United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983)) Richard Buckminster Fuller.
		Hannes Meyer succeeds (United States architect (born in Germany) and founder of the Bauhaus school (1883-1969)) Walter Gropius as head of the (A German style of architecture begun by Walter Gropius in 1918) Bauhaus school.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1928_in_architecture.htm (323 words)

	Monumental Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Finished in the autumn of 1916, the Temple of the Scottish Rite would be the subject of constant praise for the next twenty years.
		French Architect Jacques Greber in his L'Architecture aux Etatis-Unis of 1920 described it as "a monument of remarkable sumptuousness …the ensemble is an admirable study of antique architecture stamped with a powerful dignity" (Vol.
		In his first major public commission, Pope had crated a landmark in American Architecture.
	www.srmason-sj.org /web/development/j-r-pope2.htm (125 words)

	Pierre Francois Henri Labrouste Biography / Biography of Pierre Francois Henri Labrouste Main Biography
		The French architect-engineer Pierre François Henri Labrouste (1801-1875), a major innovator in the field of cast-iron construction, was a leader of the romantic-classicist school of architecture.
		This long, oblong masonry structure in the romantic-classicist tradition of early-19th-century French, English, and German architecture was innovative in itself.
		A comprehensive discussion of Labrouste's contribution to architecture is in Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1958; 2d ed.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-pierre-francois-henri-labrouste (512 words)

	Architecture in National technical museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Archive of Architecture and Civil Engineering has been flooded in 2002 and it still remains closed for public.
		The files of predominantly two-dimensional documentation contain also models of buildings and their parts that represent a basis of the collection of construction models (contemporary models of particular buildings) and plaster castings of parts of historical buildings (from Classic Times, via Gothic and Renaissance to Art Nouveau).
		The collection of negatives has been created during last thirty years mainly by photographic documentation of architecture of individual exhibits and by systematic classification of professional literature.
	www.ntm.cz /asb_architektura.htm (405 words)

	Statistics and Lists
		M.A. 1930) as a memorial to the donor's aunt and uncle for an endowment of a professorship in Architecture.
		Established by the Yale Architectural Alumni Association to honor Janet Sielaff, who, from 1976 until her death in 1983, served as the dean's assistant for alumni affairs.
		Awarded each year to the graduating student in architecture whose academic performance has been consistently at the highest level, who has displayed the most promise and potential for a future professional role, and who has completed a piece of distinguished independent work.
	www.yale.edu /bulletin/html2003/arch/statistics.html (4494 words)

	Fiske Kimball: Legacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Completed in late 1969 and ready for occupancy in January 1970, the new School of Architecture building was named Campbell Hall to honor the life and career of Edmund Campbell.
		The University's Committee on Names decided that the library contiguous to the Architecture School would be suitably named in honor of Fiske Kimball.
		On a rainy weekend in late January 1970 architecture students and faculty organized themselves into teams to transport the 12,000 volumes from Fayerweather Hall to the new Library.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /clemons/RMC/exhib/fiske/legacy/library.html (356 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Libera, Adalberto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As early as 1926 he was active in the GRUPPO 7, and he is said to have been influential in that group’s early writings.
		In 1928 he began to practise in Rome.
		In 1928 (with Gaetano Minnucci) he organized the first Esposizione dell’ Architettura Razionale in Rome and helped organize the second, held in Pier Maria Bardi’s gallery in Via Veneto in Rome (1931), which contained Bardi’s famous ‘Table of Horrors’ (la tavola degli orrori, caricatures of the Academic architecture of the period) shown to Mussolini.
	www.artnet.com /library/05/0508/T050849.asp (312 words)

	Deco Dog's Ephemera - Architecture 6
		1928 architectural prints of the HOUSE OF M. (OR), Herman Brookman - architect, 6 pages on 3 sheets; includes photo of main entrance gable, first floor plan, small photos of the entrance front, Mrs.
		1928 architectural prints of the HOUSE OF MRS.
		in a 1928 METROPOLITAN PAVING AND BRICK CO.
	www.decodog.com /inven/arch6.html (3686 words)

	Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Just would like to share an architecture preservat...
		Architecture Shown to the Children vintage 1920s F...
		Finally, now I know why I went into Architecture.
	www.talkaboutprofessions.com /group/alt.architecture (95 words)

	Powell's Books - Details of Modern Architecture #02: The Details of Modern Architecture: 1928 to 1988 by Edward Ford
		Details of Modern Architecture #02: The Details of Modern Architecture: 1928 to 1988
		Among the individual buildings documented are Eliel Saarinen's Cranbrook School, Asplund's Woodland Cemetery, Fuller's Dymaxion house, the Venturi house, the Eames and other Case Study houses, the concrete buildings of Le Corbusier, Aalto'sSaynatsalo Town Hall, and Kahn's Exeter Library and Salk Institute — with many details published for the first time.
		This second volume continues the study of the relationships of the ideals of design and the realities of construction in modern architecture, beginning in the late 1920s and extending to the present day.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0262562022-0 (205 words)

	Guide to the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning Records, 1905-1997
		Contains administrative and historical records of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.
		Andrew D. White, Goodhue Associates (New York City architects), F.H. Bosworth (Dean of C.U. College of Architecture), and Lee Lawrie (the sculptor) concerning the memorial to President White in Sage Chapel.
		Correspondence mainly between Midjo and George Young, Dean of the College of Architecture, while the former was studying and traveling in Europe.
	rmc.library.cornell.edu /EAD/htmldocs/RMA00512.html (496 words)

	Archinect : Books : The Details of Modern Architecture : Vol. 2: 1928 to 1988
		Most of the modern movements in architecture have identified some paradigm of good construction, arguing that buildings should be built like Gothic cathedrals, like airplanes, like automobiles, like ships, or like primitive dwellings.
		Individual chapters treat the work of Eliel and Eero Saarinen, Eric Gunnar Asplund, Richard Neutra, Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, and Louis Kahn, as well as the Case Study, High Tech, Postmodern, and Deconstructivist architects.
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	www.archinect.com /books/detail.php?id=8095_0_25_0_M41 (245 words)

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		Edward R. Ford continues the study of the relation of design ideals to construction realities in modern architecture, beginning in the 1920s and extending to the present day.
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