The Elusive Archive
April 23, 2024
Despina Stratigakos— How I wish this book had existed when I was a student pursuing the fugitive histories of women architects! In the 1990s publications on women in architecture were… READ MORE
Tag: American architects
Our Days Are Like Full Years
October 19, 2020
On a winter day in 1953, a mysterious man in a sheepskin coat stood out to Harriet Pattison, then a theater student at Yale. She would later learn he was… READ MORE
Paul Rudolph at 100
October 23, 2018
The architect Paul Rudolph was born 100 years ago today. Hugely influential in the 1950s and 1960s, Rudolph was among the most important architects of post-war modernism in America. This… READ MORE
Ep. 35 – How House Beautiful’s Powerful Female Editor Transformed Midcentury American Design
August 10, 2017
Interview with Monica Penick about her new book Tastemaker: Elizabeth Gordon, House Beautiful, and the Postwar American Home. YaleUniversity · An Interview With Monica Penick
Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco
October 25, 2016
Stanford University professor emeritus Paul V. Turner, author of the new book Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco, shares marvelous stories from his years of research into Frank Lloyd Wright’s… READ MORE
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