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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"American architects"”.
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Celebrity and architects. The significance of celebrity in relation to the professional legitimisation of American architects in the 1970s and 1980s: a case study
… by reinvestigating the relationship between architects and the media during the “starchitect boom” of the late 1970s and 1980s in the United States of America. With thirty years of historical retrospect now available since the arrival of the “starchitect” phenomenon, this thesis provides a …
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How Can Design Thinking Transform Diversity Initiatives For Architectural Trade Organizations In The United States?
… as a tool to increase the number of African American architects in the United States. The research was grounded in the speech given by Whitney Young to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1968, and the initial partnership between the AIA and the National Organization of Minority of …
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Modernism and professionalism in American architecture, 1919-1933
… assumptions: first, that by the 1900s, both the American Institute of Architects (AlA) and the numerous professional journals available to architects across the country solidified the profession nationally and yielded a coherent field within which practitioners could debate the content of their …
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Architectural contextualism in the twentieth century, with particular reference to the architects E. Fay Jones and John Carl Warnecke
… and in its aspects of critical regionalism. American architects adept at the practice of architectural contextualism during the mid-twentieth century offer principles and techniques. These architects are John Carl Warnecke, E. Fay Jones, and George White and others. This research has yielded …
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Domestic surface : a framework for advancement
… further distanced the already unfamiliar role of American architects from their clientele. Domestic spaces in production homes are defined by continuous generic surfaces. This thesis recognizes the latent architectural opportunities that current domestic surfaces provide. The thesis aims to …
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Inhabiting the world : architecture, urbanism, and the global moral-politics of Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin
… of internationalism through a study of the American architects Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin, who practiced in the United States, Australia, and India between 1895 and 1949. Unlike previous studies of internationalism, which have focused exclusively on the transfer of architectural …