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Architecture -- United States -- 20th century

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Noted architect Bruce Graham, designer of Sears Tower, passes away

Bruce Graham, architect behind nation's tallest building, dies at 84 http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/midwest/view/20100309bruce_graham_architect_behind_nations_tallest_building_dies_at_84/srvc=home&position=recent Legendary Architect Bruce J. Graham Dies http://www.som.com/content.cfm/030810_legendary_architect_bruce_j_graham_dies Chicago Tribune Profile: Bruce Graham...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2010/0312
Paul Revere Williams Project

Born in Los Angeles in 1894, Paul Revere Williams would grow up to be one of America's most interesting architects, and as an African American, he faced a number of challenges throughout his career. Throughout the 1920s and 1930, he designed homes for a number of wealthy clients in the elite subdivisions around the City of Angels, including places like Brentwood and Bel Air. Williams became known...

https://www.paulrwilliamsproject.org/
R. Buckminster Fuller Digital Collection

It is hard to classify R. Buckminster Fuller, but at the very least, it is fair to say he was an architect, a planner, an engineer, an inventor, and a Renaissance man in the best sense of the phrase. With support from the Save America's Treasures Program, Stanford University has seen fit to digitally reformat a wide range of very valuable audio and video materials culled from their R. Buckminster...

https://exhibits.stanford.edu/bucky?forward=home
The Magic of America

The Magic of America is an early (2007) e-publishing effort from the Art Institute of Chicago, to create a digital version of a memoir by Marion Mahony Griffin. An architect and designer, Griffin was the wife and partner of architect Walter Burley Griffin. The unpublished manuscript is over 1,400 typewritten pages, and includes more than 650 illustrations, all faithfully reproduced by the Art...

https://archive.artic.edu/magicofamerica/
Thomas H. and Joan W. Gandy Photograph Collection

The Louisiana Digital Library has a wide array of historical collections that document everything from Acadian culture to the vibrancy of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. This particular collection brings together photographs of Natchez from photographers Henry Norman, Henry Gurney, and Earl Norman. Visitors can make their way through over 160 images here, such as shots of barbershops, prominent...

https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/lsu-sc-...