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HOW ROWHOUSES SHAPED OUR NEIGHBORHOODS In North America, rowhouses go back to the days of the earliest European colonies. By the 1630s, English settlers in Jamestown, Virginia, and probably elsewhere, were putting up small groups of attached houses closely modeled on familiar English forms that had been built since medieval times.
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MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN CUBA Book Review: The Havana Guide: Modern Architecture 1925-65, by Eduardo Luis Rodriguez. Princeton Architectural Press, 2000, ISBN 1-56898-210-0. Cuba is not made only of sandy beaches and Spanish colonial buildings but has astounding works of modern architecture to present (and to preserve). If the recent movie, "The Buena Vista Social Club" didn't make it clear, this newly published guide to architecture in Havana from 1925 to 1965 surely will.
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SMALL FIRM - GLOBAL REACH From offices in a nicely restored old house just a few doors from where Mark Twain lived in Hartford, Connecticut, the firm of Tai Soo Kim Partners has been creating contextually sensitive modern architecture in local, regional, and global markets for over thirty years.
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More Building Culture Design Series Focuses on Furnishings — AP, 2001.0103.Philadelphia Journal: Reinventing an Icon of a Grand Old Philadelphia — New York Times, 2000.1220 (registration required) Sites Suggested for Washington's Next Memorials — New York Times, 2000.1219 (registration required) Japan's Modern Take on Tradition — Washington Post, 2000.1209
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