Ada Louise Huxtable, the dean of American architecture critics, died Monday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Although just about as many women as men study in American architecture schools, only about 16% of the licensed architects in the United States are women.
And it may be just as well that the curators don't explore the imprint of French literary theory on American architecture in the 1970s and '80s.
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Just as Britain pioneered suburbia with its cosy mock Tudor, Wright created a new vernacular for American architecture, which can be seen in homes throughout the country in some degree.
To the winners go the spoils: Histories of early 20th-century American art and architecture were written by modernist proponents who criticized the achievements of the American Renaissance and City Beautiful designers or ignored them altogether.
The last was completed in the 1930s, a time of great interest in American Colonial revival architecture.
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But he proposed far more, describing in his own signature campaign pronouncement on national security the new architecture of American defense that Bush had failed to deliver.
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However, as an architect who has practised in Los Angeles, New York and Houston, I can assure you that the quality of architecture in any American city is almost the same.
Both Poland and the Czech Republic are members in good standing of NATO and of the European Union: they are as ensconced in the American-designed European security architecture as it is possible to be.
When the building was put up for sale by the American government, it was listed as a landmark by the British architecture minister, who had been one of those Vietnam protesters, over the strong opposition of American diplomats concerned that it might be harder to unload.
An ancient example of adobe architecture exists at Taos Pueblo, a Native American settlement on the edge of Taos, in the north of the state.
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) carries a foreboding message in its new Architecture Billings Index as well.
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In contrast, New York's Engelhard Court is a magic mix of 19th-century sculpture and architecture that goes beyond visual delight to convey a sense of the uniqueness of American art.
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