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  1947 in architecture - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
See also: 1946 in architecture, other events of 1947, 1948 in architecture and the architecture timeline.
The "Old" John Hancock Tower in Boston, Massachusetts, United States is completed.
1947 in architecture, Buildings, Births, Deaths, 1947 and Years in architecture.
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 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Henrietta Dozier (1872-1947)
After graduating from Girls High School in 1891, she studied Beaux-Arts classicism at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and in 1899 she earned a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was one of three women in her class.
She was involved in the decision to require architects practicing in Georgia to be licensed, a rule which went into effect in 1920.
She criticized the Modernist style of architecture as a mere fad, believing instead in the classic traditions of good style and high-quality materials.
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 N 10, MARS 1947, une oeuvre de L'ARCHITECTURE D'AUJOURD'UI, proposée par Chapitre
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 The Hill School - Student life / Chapel architecture and gifts
On Easter Sunday 1939, the brilliant stained glass windows located in the apse of the chapel were presented by Frank DuPont ’13 in memory of his brother, Eleuthere ’20, and his parents, General and Mrs.
In 1947, the south window of the chapel was dedicated as a memorial to a former headmaster, Alfred G. Rolfe.
Also in 1947, the beautiful Lectern Bible was donated by Philip H. Glatfelter ’10 in memory of his son, William ’36.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1947   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television
1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar).
June 23 - The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
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 1947 in architecture - Definition, explanation
Design and architecture firm founded in 1947, specializing in historic retorations.
Design and architecture firm founded in 1947, specializing in historic...
History of the lighthouse which was discontinued in 1947.
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 N 16, DECEMBRE 1947, une oeuvre de L'ARCHITECTURE D'AUJOURD'UI, proposée par Chapitre
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 Modern Calgary: Architecture from 1947-67   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Constructed in 1947, it is considered by Forseth to be the best remaining example of Early Modernism.
Despite the Calgarian tradition of tearing down anything with more than 50 years history, these monuments have survived and speak to the ideas that were at the centre of the city’s early years.
The architectural history of this young city is an interesting point of reflection because it is still so recent.
www.ucalgary.ca /~gauntlet/eg/buzz/stories/20000323/buzz4.html   (492 words)

  
 Dissertations, Essays on "Symbolic Space: French Enlightenment Architecture and Its Legacy" by Richard A. Etlin.
Dissertations, Essays on "Symbolic Space: French Enlightenment Architecture and Its Legacy" by Richard A. Etlin.
        Richard Etlin, in his study, Symbolic Space: French Enlightenment Architecture and Its Legacy, offers his insight into the integral relationship architecture has within the activities of man. Politics, science, social organization, and religion, all have spaces unique to their own functional character.
After reading this book, it will be impossible to judge modern architecture without these considerations their relationship to the past.
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 Architectural Competitions: International Competitions in Architecture and Town Planning: Volume 1: 1792-1947 / Volume ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Architectural Competitions: International Competitions in Architecture and Town Planning: Volume 1: 1792-1947 / Volume 2: 1947-1993 (Taschen Jumbo Series)
Looking at Architectural competitions over a long period of time, you see the winning entry, several runners up, and an essay about the process in each competition (and they are some very individual processes).
Really interesting for those focused on Architecture and a good read for anyone of omnivorous tastes.
www.freeglossary.com /p:3822889296   (109 words)

  
 Arts Online Center - Architecture - History - Architects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Brief biographies of architects who died between 1897 and 1947, from the American Art Annual and Who's Who in American Art, hosted by the (US) Society of Architectural Historians.
Between 1897 and 1947 the American Art Annual and its successor volume Who's Who in American Art included brief obituaries of prominent American artists, sculptors, and architects.
While the Art Annual and Who's Who contain few photographs of the architects, the Commission has gathered these from many sources and is pleased to make them available to researchers.
www.arts-online-center.com /architecture/history/architects   (267 words)

  
 History of Von Neumann Architecture of Computers Search Found at FreeResumeExamples.net
John von Neumann and von Neumann Architecture for Computers (1945) Barney J. Cabrera Table of Contents: John von Neumann (1903-1957) John von Neumann (born Johann von Neumann) was a child prodigy,...
Von Neumann Architecture as a Kuhnian Paradigm -- Zaft
Von Neumann Architecture as a Kuhnian Paradigm In this paper I examine the history of computer architecture in the 1930s and 1940s.
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 Bates College | 01-27-99 ISAACSON TO DISCUSS "WRITING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE"
He has also written on the aesthetics of art, including "A Short Walk Around the Pyramids and Through the World of Art." Isaacson is a frequent lecturer, contributor of essays, and a book reviewer on a variety of art-related subjects.
His legal career has included roles as president of the Androscoggin County Bar Association, corporation counsel for the City of Lewiston and assistant county attorney for Androscoggin County.
Isaacson earned his bachelor's degree from Bates College in 1947 and his law degree from Harvard.
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 Adam - Movement in Architecture - footnotes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The edition published in 1975 by Academy Editions, entitled The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam contains the complete text of the introductions, as well as the plates, with an introductory essay by Robert Oresko.
The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam, pp.45 and 46.
This division is followed, for example, by James Lees-Milne in The Age of Adam, (Batsford, 1947).
www.scran.ac.uk /dl/ada/documents/general/movement/movement_foot.htm   (110 words)

  
 UMCG
Homepage > Het UMCG > Architectuur in het UMCG > Conference 'Architecture of hospitals' > Day 2 > Hospitals and Institutional Architecture
In 1947, the famous American art historian and architectural critic Henry-Russell Hitchcock, oined the phrase ‘architecture of bureaucracy’ that has haunted architectural practices in the USA and Europe ever since.
Nothing seems to be farther away from the ‘architecture of genius’ than the ‘architecture of bureaucracy’, and no building seems to fit the last category better than the hospital.
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 LEE BURNS PAPERS, 1915-1954   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Included are correspondence, reports, and related materials regarding his involvement with the Indiana Historical Society (1915-1954), the Harrison Mansion Restoration Committee (the restoring of William Henry Harrison's home in Vincennes, 1940-1947), and The Last Man's Club (a Spanish-American War veterans group in Indianapolis, 1947-1954).
Among the subjects of his essays and addresses were smoking and the problems of use of tobacco, architecture and its role in Indiana History, including South Hall at Wabash College.
There are two photographs, 1) a group photograph of the 1947 annual meeting of the Last Man's Club and 2) a photograph ca.
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 Category "1947" - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Category "1947" - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Category:1947 contains research on
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia – Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
He was librarian of the Avery Library, Columbia Univ. (1934-45), and professor of architecture there.
Hamlin wrote Some European Architectural Libraries (1939), Architecture through the Ages (1940), Greek Revival Architecture in America (1944), Architecture: An Art for all Men (1947), and Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1955).
He also edited and wrote part of the basic reference text Forms and Functions of Twentieth Century Architecture (1952).
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 Alternative Architecture:New Generation Architecture,education and books on architecture by Joseph Henry Wythe
Alternative Architecture:New Generation Architecture,education and books on architecture by Joseph Henry Wythe
Studied architecture under Bruce Goff, close friend of Frank Lloyd Wright
Taught architecture at Oklahoma University and Monterey Peninsula College
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 GSAPP Topics in Architecture Culture from World War II Through the 1960s   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Henry-Russell Hitchcock, "The Architecture of Bureaucracy and the Architecture of Genius" (1947) [HO]
Ernesto Rogers, "The Evolution of Architecture: Reply to the Custodian of Frigidaires" (1959)
Social protest and the rise of a counterculture.
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 Images of Baker House, MIT campus, Boston, Massachusetts, 1947-48, by Alvar Aalto. Digital Imaging Project: Art ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Digital Imaging Project: Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from classical Greek to Post-modern.
The Charles River side of this undulating dormitory--a wide "W" on the river side with one extended leg
In contrast to the minimalist architecture of many college dormitories, the campus side of Baker House is filled with expressionistic surprises.
www.bluffton.edu /homepages/facstaff/sullivanm/aalto/aalto.html   (148 words)

  
 Charles W Moore [1925] - Featured Artist on Artfact.com
He studied architecture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, from 1942 to 1947 (BArch, 1947).
He then practised architecture in California (1947–9 and 1954–5), travelled in Europe and the Near East (1949–50), taught at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City (1950–52), and served in the US Army in Japan and Korea (1952–4).
After teaching for one year at Princeton (1958–9), he became an Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley (1959–62) and then chairman of its Department of Architecture (1962–5).
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 Wikidpedia - The free online encyclopedia - 1947 in architecture
Splendours of the Raj: British Architecture in India, 1660-1947
The Architecture of Bart Prince: The Pragmatics of Place (Norton Books for Architects and Designers)
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 Amsterdam Houses and Public Housing Architecture - 92nd Street Y - New York, NY
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Built in 1947, the Amsterdam Houses on Amsterdam Avenue between 61st and 64th Streets is an example of the artistry and design that characterized New York City public housing projects constructed after World War II.
Critic, author and art historian Francis Morrone examines the Amsterdam Houses and the surrounding Lincoln Square neighborhood.
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 New York Architecture Images- Wallace Kirkman Harrison
tom fletcher's new york architecture images and notes
Harrison designed the Trylon and Perisphere, the symbolizing structures for the New York World's Fair, 1939.
He was probably the most effective large-scale coordinator in American architecture.
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 1947 in architecture - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
1947 in architecture - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
''See also:'' 1946_in_architecture, other events of 1947, 1948_in_architecture and the architecture_timeline.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
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 Art Gallery : Artist
Born on July 9, 1947 in Malinovka village, Mozharsky District, Ryazan region.
1967-1973 - studied at the Institute of Graphic Art, Sculpture and architecture named after Repin.
His works are in State Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum in St.Peterburg, State Reserve Museum of Sergei Esenin, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Ryazan Histoty and Architecture Reserve Museum, Ryazan Art Museum, Tula Art Museum, Aristic Fund of the Russian Federation.
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 Electa - I libri
Conservatore delle collezioni reali inglesi dal 1947, fu direttore del Courtauld Institute di Londra dal 1947 al 1974.
Nel 1957 gli fu conferito il Cavalierato, ma nel 1964 confessò di avere operato come agente sovietico e la sua onorificenza decadde.
Torino 1966); François Mansart and the Origins of French Classical Architecture, London 1941; The Paintings of Nicolas Poussin: a Critical Catalogue, London 1966; Barocco siciliano, Milano 1968; Baroque and Rococo: Architecture and Decoration, New York 1978; Art and Architecture in France 1500 to 1700, London 1980; Borromini, Cambridge 1979 (trad.
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 Architecture at Loggia | Architect Richard Neutra at a Glance
Known primarily for a pure and rational architectural style as is evident in residences such as the 1929 Lovell House and the 1947 Kaufmann House, architect Richard Neutra was a master of modern design.
Wonderfully presented, this book provides an engaging chronology of the 20th Century's most important architectural works.
No part of this website, including text and images, may be reproduced or copied in any form
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 Web Directory » Web Directory » Arts » Architecture » History » Architects
Biographies of American Architects, 1897-1947 - Brief biographies of architects who died between 1897 and 1947, from the American Art Annual and Who's Who in American Art, hosted by the (US) Society of Architectural Historians.
Chicago Landmarks - Architects - Select group of architects who played a significant role in the development of Chicago, along with personalized tours of the Chicago landmarks they designed.
The content on this page is based on the Open Directory Project and has been modified by this website.
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