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THE FACTORY ARCHITECTURE OF ALBERT KAHN In the late nineteenth century, the industrial geography of the United States underwent a decisive shift linked to the emergence of the automobile and aeronautics industries. Already, from Pittsburgh to Buffalo to Chicago, and including Cleveland, Akron, and Toledo, a chain of regional metropolises formed that counter balanced the industrial centers of the original thirteen colonies.
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WE ARE WHAT WE BUILD Book Review: The Culture of Building by Howard Davis. Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-1951-1294-6. It's not often that a book appears with the potential to fundamentally change the way we think about the built world. The Culture of Building by Howard Davis is such a book.
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REAL DILEMMA FOR TIFFANY DREAM GARDEN Where does architecture end and interior art begin? In Philadelphia this question revolves around The Dream Garden, a mural designed by the Tiffany Studios in 1916. It was installed in the headquarters of The Curtis Publishing Company which had been designed by architect Edgar Seeler in 1910. The mural's fate now hinges on whether it is entitled to the same protections as historic architecture under the strong local historic preservation code.
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More Building Culture House of the People — Washington Post, 2000.1101Building on Bauhaus Legacy — LA Times, 2000.1030 The White House at 200 — AP, 2000.1030 Last Ming Dynasty-Era Home Razed — AP, 2000.1027 Holocaust tribute by British artist divides Vienna — London Telegraph, 2000.1026 Urban Space Goes Saffron: Hindutva's New Offensives — Daily Star (editorial, India), 2000.1023
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