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  Booknotes
JOSEPH ELLIS: Because he was a very wise man and also a very fiery, emotional, vituperative, sometimes angry, sometimes obscene fellow, and it's the title because I thought it captured in a way that might be memorable the kind of paradoxical character of this otherwise thought of as icon, very human but also extraordinarily wise.
ELLIS: The specific answer is that I had been given a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation to do a book on late 18th-century America, which was going to be a study of a prominent person, an ordinary person in a community, that was going to study the changes sweeping through late 18th-century America.
ELLIS: That's a story that on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration, or the supposed anniversary, July 4, 1826, both Jefferson and Adams were nearing death, and they were two of the last three of the original signers of the Declaration to still be alive and certainly the most prominent.
www.booknotes.org /Transcript/?ProgramID=1165   (6752 words)

  
 Peter Ellis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Ellis (CHP politician), a candidate of the Christian Heritage Party of Canada
Peter Hugh McGregor Ellis, a New Zealander who was convicted of child molestation in 1993 and served seven years in jail.
Peter Ellis (architect), an architect who designed the revolutionary Oriel Chambers in Liverpool in 1864.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Ellis   (165 words)

  
 The Belly of an Architect (1987)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Peter Greenaway's "Belly of an Architect" is pretentious, painful, beautifully filmed, and contains a fascinating performance by an under-utilized actor.
In "Belly of an Architect", the sets are provided by the location: a beautifully shot Rome, from its museums to its ruins to its restaurants.
Our architect starts to think he's exhibiting the same symptoms as his obsession, and begins to suspect his own wife is poisoning him as well.
www.imdb.com /Details?0092637   (533 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Ellis
Ellis, Havelock ELLIS, HAVELOCK [Ellis, Havelock] (Henry Havelock Ellis), 1859-1939, English psychologist and author.
Ellis Island ELLIS ISLAND [Ellis Island] island, c.27 acres (10.9 hectares), in Upper New York Bay, SW of Manhattan island.
Ellis, William ELLIS, WILLIAM [Ellis, William] 1794-1872, English missionary, pioneer of printing in the Pacific.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Ellis&StartAt=21   (669 words)

  
 Peter Ellis (architect) - Medbib.com, the modern encyclopedia
Peter Ellis is a virtually unknown 19th century Liverpool architect.
Ellis' buildings influenced the later work of the US architect John Wellborn Root, who lived in Liverpool for a period.
This article about an architect is a stub.
www.medbib.com /Peter_Ellis_(architect)   (198 words)

  
 University Club Tower
Peter Ellis is a Design Partner of SOM Chicago.
Ellis leads a substantial Residential practice which has gained international recognition for projects that are sensitive to the cultural environment and context of each locale.
Ellis is best known for capturing the relationship between contemporary architecture and the distinct urban fabric of great historic cities.
www.universityclubtower.com /design/architect.cfm   (481 words)

  
 Features | Saving Ellis Island
In its peak year, 1907, Ellis Island processed one million immigrants--all with a numbered tag pinned to their clothes to indicate where their names could be found and their identities verified on the ship's manifest.
The completion of phase one enables visitors to see the Beaux-Arts style Main Building (also known as the Ellis Island Immigration Museum) looking pretty much as it did when their ancestors stood in line waiting to be processed, 230 of them at a time.
Peter Frey's Ellis Island photos--including some of those that appear in this story--will be on exhibit at the SED Gallery in Caldwell Hall just west of the law auditorium from January 7 to February 12.
www.uga.edu /gm/1298/FeatEll.html   (2158 words)

  
 What others have said about Peter Peets
"Peter is a leader with strengths in communication, interpersonal and analytical skills.
It was refreshing to deal with a product manager that was both knowledgeable in his product line and with the ability to effectively communicate the features and specs of the product.
Peter never dealt in 'vapor ware' promising features or support that was not available, an important fact when trying to put together a project that is 'on time and within budget'.
ellistalks.com /about_us/said_about_peter_peets.html   (414 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Schinkel was the architect responsible for many of the public buildings commissioned as Berlin became not only Prussia's, but Germany's state capital.
F/F. The dreams and designs that over forty architects and their clients have put into reality, ranging from three-story brownstones to thirty-story apartment blocks, copiously illustrated with photos, floor plans and sketches.
Detailed and scholarly study of the Methuens' patronage of architects of the calibre of Brown, Repton and Nash and Corsham's example of the complexity and eclecticism of English architectural styles of this period.
www.inprint.co.uk /cgi-bin/stock-cat-search.pl?findstring=ArchitectureA   (13370 words)

  
 AIA Chicago - Search for the Right Architect
Free to the public, these "Working With an Architect" seminars are designed to help families in the Chicago area better understand the roles and responsibilities of owner, architect, and contractor.
Residential architects will share tips for making the process run smoothly from budget planning to finished construction.
Architects from AIA Chicago, one of the nation’s largest and most prestigious architecture organizations, host the seminars and address key questions, including:
www.aiachicago.org /resources_for_clients/search_for_architect.asp   (350 words)

  
 Architectural Record | House of the Month
Architect Andrew Berman creates a wood house with both form and function.
A New York City architect designed herself an "intervention in the landscape," a country house in southeast New York State.
A narrow lot forces the architect of this house to be creative in capturing light and breezes in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
www.architecturalrecord.com /projects/residential/HotM-2.asp   (327 words)

  
 The Folkus Project - Folk Music in Central New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ellis Paul is already one of the most significant stars in the modern history of folk music.
He was a chief architect of what has become known as the Boston school of songwriting, an urbane, literate folk-pop style that helped ignite the folk revival of the 1990s.
Between 1993 and 2003, he won an unprecedented 12 Boston Music Awards, and his songs were heard on hit TV shows Ed and MTV's Real World; and in the soundtracks of several Farrelly Brothers films, including "Me, Myself, and Irene," starring Jim Carrey, and "Shallow Hal," with Jack Black and Gwyneth Paltrow.
www.folkus.org /ellispaul.html   (792 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Education of an Architect: Books: Bill N. Lacy,Alan C. Green,John Jay Iselin,John Hejduk,Elizabeth ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A repository of ideas for architects and designers, this handsome tome includes manifesto-like statements, sketches for houses, markets, bridges and a motel and visual doodles on elements of urban landscape.
Profiling twelve years of architectural education from 1972-1985, Education of an Architect celebrates the work of the talented students and the spirited faculty of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union.
It is divided into two parts covering chronologically the first four years of the design studio, and the thesis year which is organized by topic: Instruments, Orders and Projections, the City, the Institution, Outskirts, the House, Bridges, Topographies and Texts.
www.amazon.com /Education-Architect-John-Hejduk/dp/0847809706   (1075 words)

  
 Commerce
Particularly worth looking at is the glass-facaded Oriel Chambers, a building so far ahead of its time that its architect, Peter Ellis, was ridiculed to the extent that he designed no further buildings.
The same architect, Herbert J Rowse, was responsible for the magnificent Martin's Bank Building (now Barclays Bank) across the road.
Completed in 1932, it is his finest work with a superb interior which can be viewed during the bank's opening times.
www.angelfire.com /mi/CityofLiverpool/commercenf.html   (211 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: Land costs keep downstate skyscrapers closer to ground   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mir Ali, a University of Illinois architecture professor, says mega-story skyscrapers also provide more space than downstate cities need, at costs that are significantly higher to fortify the towering buildings against high winds and earth tremors.
Downtown living could ultimately bring taller buildings to more smaller towns, says Peter Ellis, an architect with Chicago-based Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, which designed the Sears Tower, Hancock Center and the Trump International Hotel and Towers now under construction along the Chicago River.
Ellis cited Milwaukee and Raleigh-Durham, N.C., as cities that recently added residential high-rises downtown, breaking away from low-rise norms he says could be as rooted in local building traditions as economics.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/jun/24/062410551.html   (816 words)

  
 JS Online:
Gottfried suggested that I call his friend Peter Ellis, an architect and green-building champion with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in Chicago.
Ellis, who is designing the University Club Tower at the corner of Kilbourn and Prospect avenues, was eloquent about the failure of many in his profession to engage the issue more deeply.
Ellis joked that architects in the conservative Milwaukee area might have to "go mad," the way Richard Foster and other British modernists did some years back in throwing off the deadening shackles of post-modern historicism.
www.jsonline.com /news/metro/apr04/219890.asp   (1064 words)

  
 ArchitectureWeek - Building - Sacramental Restoration - 2006.0405
The cathedral was designed by architect Bryan Clinch in a Renaissance style recalling "The Duomo" in Florence and St.
The French cathedral L'Eglise de la Trinité in Paris, however, more tangibly inspired its crucifix-shaped form, as requested by Patrick Monague, who was Bishop of Sacramento in 1886 and who had studied in Paris.
Rescuing the Sacramento cathedral was Beyer Blinder Belle, the New York and Washington, DC-based firm whose restoration portfolio includes Grand Central Terminal, the U.S. Capitol, and Ellis Island's main building.
www.architectureweek.com /2006/0405/building_1-1.html   (214 words)

  
 Landscape architect's community focus honored at U of Oregon Daily Journal of Commerce (Portland, OR) - Find Articles
New York landscape architect Peter Rothschild accepted the school's highest alumni honor, the 2004 Ellis F. Lawrence Medal, at its Saturday commencement.
Places mean a great deal to people, and Peter's work across the country has really been geared toward that goal of joining people and place.
Along with his work's focus on community, Melnick said Rothschild is a credit to UO for hiring its graduates - Quennell Rothschild partners Andrew Moore and Mark Bunnell studied at the university - and for doing pro bono work that really speaks to what landscape architecture is about and what we teach in our school.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4184/is_20040615/ai_n10046874   (753 words)

  
 Ellis County Kansas Queries and Surnames
A Charles Ensley is on the 1870 census of Ellis County.
Peter may have had a daughter who lived in Ellis Co. First name was Paulowna.
The certificat states that she was born in a sod house in Ellis County, Fort Hays, Kansas.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/ellis/queries.html   (11182 words)

  
 City of Vancouver, Urban Design Panel Minutes
The Panel unanimously supported this application and the architect was commended very highly, both for the strength of the design and for the exceptional quality of the presentation.
There needs to be greater collaboration between the building architects and the landscape architects on the details so that it all fits together as a whole.
Applicant's Opening Comments: Peter Webb briefly explained the project rationale and Peter Busby, Architect, reviewed the design changes, noting it may be the first commercial rental covenanted tower in the West End.
www.city.vancouver.bc.ca /commsvcs/planning/udp/1997/udpmnv19.htm   (2038 words)

  
 Victorian Architecture - Glasgow Guide to Commercial Buildings
The Hatrack's integral framework allowed the architect to create large areas of glass surrounded by a minimal amount of decorative stone, giving the façade a lightness and modernity for which Salmon and some of the more adventurous Glasgow architects were gaining a worldwide reputation at the time.
It's innovative architect, Peter Ellis, was thought to be extremely daring in a city which took great pride in it's conventional English Victorian architecture.
Local architects were finding the confidence to imitate the monumental structures of North American cities which the general public were now able to see in the movies.
www.scotcities.com /warehouses.htm   (2946 words)

  
 Liverpool Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
One of only two buildings by the Liverpool architect, Peter Ellis, 16 Cook Street.
It has been speculated that the influence of this can be seen in the early skyscrapers in Chicago where the American architect John Root who, having been sent to abroad to avoid the Civil War, was in Liverpool at the time that Cook Street was being built.
Some of his work shows close influences of Peter Ellis.
www.liverpoolarchitecture.com /tours/buildings/building.php?id=30   (213 words)

  
 Liverpool World Heritage Bid - Castle Street   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The architect James Picton's replacement was originally the Mercantile and Exchange Bank and is a typically robust Victorian design with deeply set round arched openings.
The building is clad in white Doulton terracotta in an attempt to cope with the polluted atmosphere of the city, and its facades, being largely undecorated, appear strikingly modern for its date.
The architect was Aubrey Thomas who used the Gothic language in a free flowing manner to produce a composition that is almost Art Nouveau.
www.liverpoolworldheritage.com /castlestreet.asp   (4820 words)

  
 Significant Buildings - John Wellborn Root
Root was born in Lumpkin, Georgia, and raised in Atlanta.
When Atlanta fell during the American Civil War, he fled to the Liverpool in the United Kingdom, it said his later work was influenced by the work of Liverpool Architect Peter Ellis-(architect).
In 1887, he was elected a director of the national American Institute of Architects.
mywebpage.netscape.com /Aberdonia4407/john-wellborn-root-significant-buildings.html   (313 words)

  
 Architects and groups
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Edward J Cuhaci and Associates Architects - offering specialized expertise in institutional, commercial, residential and industrial facilities.
Exley, Peter J. architecture and design of projects include children's museums, residences, restaurants, furniture and decorative arts.
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 JS Online:
Moreover, the message it conveys is that Johnson Controls is stodgy and averse to change - precisely the opposite of what this innovator in automotive and building systems is all about.
"Part of the problem," he said, "is that a lot of architects don't realize they have to fundamentally change the way they think about designing a building.
In fact, Ellis said, green building gives architects "a wonderful platform to create new forms with a beautiful aesthetic logic of their own" - for example, siting projects to take better advantage of sun and shadow, and developing a "richer, more unified design vocabulary" of sustainability that carries through from interior to exterior.
www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=219890&format=print   (978 words)

  
 Wellborn Paint -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Root was born son of Sidney Root in Lumpkin, Georgia, and raised in Atlanta.
When Atlanta fell during the American Civil War, he fled to the Liverpool in the United Kingdom, it said his later work was influenced by the work of Liverpool Architect Peter Ellis.
He was the son of architect John Wellborn Root.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/171/wellborn-paint.html   (1382 words)

  
 TPWD: Jan. 29, 2004 Commission Meeting Transcripts – Public Hearing
Peter Ellis came to the department in October of 1978, thinking that his employment with TWPD as an architect for the Repair and Technical Support Branch, under Johnny Buck at that time, would be a temporary hitch until the economy turned around and stabilized.
Peter transferred to the Development branch, where he contributed to the design and development of Guadalupe River, Enchanted Rock, Lake Bob Sandlin, Martin Creek, Cedar Hill, Lake Tawakoni, and Lake Ray Robert State Parks, as well as a host of other sites.
During his tenure as an architect, he organized and implemented the electronic formatting of technical specifications for the newly installed computer network.
www.tpwd.state.tx.us /business/feedback/meetings/2004/0129/transcripts/public_hearing   (16685 words)

  
 Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church Lincoln
In the summer of 1970, writes Father Michael Lynch, I was informed by Bishop Ellis about my new appointment to the parish of Oakham.
Prayers by candlelight were punctuated by the sound of sobbing as young people said goodbye to the host of friends they had made at the Friendly Place.
Those of us who would love to be able to make sense of architect's drawings could do worse, even now, than have a word with Father Michael who had to interpret plans for extensions and alterations to The Briars at the same time as he was appealing for financing.
www.peter-paul-lincoln.org.uk /parishpriest.html   (4023 words)

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