Archive for the 'American architects' Category
The Wolfsonian Library Unwrapped
• July 29, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, American architects, architects, architecture, Armistice Day, Art Deco, collectors, exhibitions, FIU, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, Great Depression, hotels, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museum architecture, museums, photography, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: Albert Wainwright, archives, Art Deco District, compact shelving, concrete repair, construction, costume design, expansion, façades, Florida International University, Hurricanes, IMLS, libraries, library installations, Mansions, Mark Hampton, Mediterranean revival architecture, Miami Beach history, museum facilities, renovation, Spanish-influenced architecture, storage facilities, the Great Hurricane of 1926, the Matthews family, The Wolfsonian, theater set design, University of Salamanca, Washington Storage Company, Washington Storage Company archive
Havana, Cuba, Yesterday and Today
• August 8, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, American architects, architects, architecture, collectors, Communism, Cuba, curators, donations, exhibitions, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, hotels, library donors, memorabilia, museums, photography, postcards, prohibition, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, theatrical producers, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, World War I, WWI
Tags: Aldo Gamba (sculptor: 1881-1944?), Alica Alonso Grand Theater (Havana), Art Deco office buildings, Bacardi headquarters (Havana), Cabarets, Capitol building, Casinos, Cuba, El Capitolio, El Malecon, El Morro Castle (Havana), El Prado (Habana), Fountains, Gran Casino Nacional, Habana, Havana (Cuba), Hotel Inglaterra (Havana), Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Hotel Plaza (Havana), Hotels, Marianao (Cuba), Martin Fox, Max Borges Jr. (architect), Prohibition, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (Wolfsonian exhibition), Roderico Neyra, San Souci (Nightclub), Schultz and Weaver (architectural firm), sculpture, Tropicana (Nightclub), Vicki Gold Levi Collection
REMEMBER THE ALAMO, RIVERWALK, AND THE HEMISFAIR, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS: THEN AND NOW
• April 30, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, American architects, architects, FDR, Federal Writers' Project, Great Depression, international expositions, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NYA, preservation, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs, WPA
Tags: Along the San Antonio River (booklet), American Guide Series, “Remember the Alamo”, barges, domestic tourism, Edwin P. Arneson (1888-1938), engineers, exhibitions, Federal Writers' Project (FWP), flood prevention, floods, Great Depression, HemisFair ’68, Hemisfair Park, historic preservation, Juarez Plaza (San Antonio), La Villita (San Antonio), Manuel Ávila Camacho (1897-1955), Maury Maverick (1895-1954), Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753-1811), National Youth Administration (NYA), New Deal, outdoor theatres, Pan American Day, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), R. H. H. Hugman (1902-1980), River Beautification Project (San Antonio), San Antonio (Texas), San Antonio River, Southwestern Social Sciences Association Conference, Statues, Texas, Texas Independence movement, the Alamo, Work Projects Administration (WPA), Workers of the Writers’ Program, World’s Fairs
FROM WHIPLASH LINES THROUGH UTOPIA TO SKYSCRAPERS: BUILT AND UNBUILT LANDMARK ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• December 6, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in American architects, architects, architecture, Art Nouveau (architecture), British architects, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hector Guimard (1867-1942), museums, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Unrealized architecture, Unrealized architecture exhibit, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Adolf Loos, Adolf Meyer, Antoni Gaudí, Architect designed furniture, architectural competitions, architectural portfolios, Art Nouveau architecture, Bellahouston Park, Bruno Busch, Bruno Taut, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Chicago Tribune, David Almeida, Digital Resources Photographer, Eliel Saarinen, Emile Zola, English Arts and Crafts movement, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Frank Lloyd Wright, Glasgow, Hans Hahn, Haus eines Kunstfreundes, Hector Guimard, Heinrich Mossdorf, hydroelectric power, John Mead Howells, Le Castel Béranger, Leopold Bauer, Lexington Terraces, Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott, Margaret Macdonald, Marion Mahony Griffin, Native Americans in architecture, neo-Gothic architecture, Nicolae Harsanyi, Otto Wagner, Peter Behrens, Prairie School, Prima Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Decorativa Moderna, Raimondo Tommaso D’Aronco, Raymond Hood, Rowan Moore, The Observer, Tony Garnier, Tribune Tower, unbuilt architectural designs, Une cité industrielle, utopian cities, Victor Horta, Victor Metzger house, vocational schools, Walter Gropius, Wasmuth Portfolio, Winslow Vila
A VERY WOLFSONIAN WORLD’S FAIR
• April 16, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, American architects, architects, architecture, bindings, collectors, displays, donations, exhibitions, FIU, FIU School of Architecture, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, George B. Post (firm), gifts, library donors, memorabilia, Midways, Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Norman Bel Geddes, postcards, posters, promotional materials, student curators, Student exhibit, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: A Century of Progress International Exposition (Chicago: 1933-1934), accordion-style book bindings, Amparo Baquerizas, Anika Batista, Anthony Quintana, Art, Chris Ingalls, Clara Palacio-de Luca, Danilo A. Mantilla, Exhibition buildings, Expositions, FIU School of Architecture Professor Elysse Newman, Francis Xavier Luca, Futurama, George B. Post (architectural firm), Inez Barlatier, International exhibitions, Jessica Martin, Katie Acosta, Lea Nickless, Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, Miami Dade College, miniature books, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Sudy Centre, New World School of the Arts Gallery, New York World's Fair (1939-1940), New York World’s Fair (1939), Nicolae Harsanyi, Paintings, pavilions, Perisphere, President George Washington, Rebecca Flor, student-curated exhibits, Tony Sarg (1880-1942), Trylon, Veronika Lugo, World of Tomorrow, World's Columbian Exposition, World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago), World’s Fairs
CARL FISHER’S SHADOWS: MIAMI BEACH MANSION AND MONTAUK POINT MANOR MATERIALS AT THE WOLFSONIAN
• January 19, 2013 • 4 CommentsPosted in American architects, architects, architecture, archives, gifts, Great Depression, library donors, Photograph albums, photography, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Architects, August Geiger (1888-1968), automobile enthusiasts, Bicycling enthusiats, Caribbean Club, Carl G. Fisher (1874-1939), Carl G. Fisher Corporation, Dan Rettiner, Dixie Highway, Florida land boom, Florida Land bust, Hotels, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, John S. Collins (1837-1928), Lincoln (Transcontinental) Highway, Long Island (NY), luxury hotels, Mansions, Miami Beach (Fla.), Miami Beach developers, Montauk Beach Development Corporation, Montauk Manor (Hotel), Montauk Point (Long Island NY), rags to riches to rags stories, real estate promoters, Schultze and Weaver (architectural firm), summer resorts, the Shadows, Thomas E. Ringwood, Towers, winter resorts
VISIT TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY BY MEMBERS OF THE MIAMI BEACH WOMEN’S CLUB
• October 4, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in American architects, architects, architecture, archives, displays, donations, gifts, memorabilia, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Art Deco (architecture), Art Deco architects, Art Deco architecture (Miami Beach), Bass Museum building, Betty Wilcox, Carl G. Fisher (1874-1939), Collins Bridge, Dawn Hugh, donors, Elizabeth Goodnow (Mrs. Clayton Sedgwick Cooper), Frances Griffith, Great Miami Hurricane (1926), H. Lawrence Wiggins III, Haddon Hall, Historic buildings (Miami Beach), historic builings, HistoryMiami Archives & Research Center, Hurricanes, John Stiles Collins (1837-1928), June Wood, Katherine Pancoast, L. Murray Dixon, Maria Valiente, MBWC presidents, Miami Beach, Miami Beach developers, Miami Beach Public Library, Miami Beach Women's Club, Miami Beach Women's Club Archive, Mrs. Clayton Sedgwick Cooper, Nancy Smith, real estate promoters, Ruby Dixon, Schultze and Weaver, The Marlin Hotel, The Raleigh Hotel, The Ritz Plaza Hotel, The Senator Hotel, The Tides Hotel, The Tiffany Hotel, The Victor Hotel, Thomas J. Pancoast, Violet Storer
WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY OBJECT OF THE WEEK: ARCHITECT ARTHUR L. WEEKS’ FLORIDA HOMES
• September 28, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, American architects, architects, architecture, gifts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Arthur L. Weeks (architect), Florida, South Florida, South Florida architects
SOME RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY GIFTED BY MITCHELL WOLFSON, JR.
• June 21, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in acquisitions, American architects, American left artists, architects, architecture, book art, Children's propaganda books, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, cruise ships, decorative arts, displays, donations, exhibitions, Fascism, FIU, Florida International University, France, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, international expositions, leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Occupied France, ocean liners, Orientalism, passenger ships, persuasive arts, Peter Behrens (1868-1940), political art, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Uncategorized, Unrealized architecture, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian rare books ephemera special collections periodicals Florida International University antiquarian propaganda persuasive arts design museum research provocative, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: Arthur L. Weeks (architect), bears, catalogs, colonialism, Detroit International Bridge, Don Quixote, Elizabeth Bishop, furniture design, Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938), Gallic roosters, George G. Sharp (naval architect), German artists, Hercules, Heywood-Wakefield Company, imperial eagles, International exhibitions, Kriegszeit, Manhattan Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair, Mississippi River Power Company, nationalism, New York Antiquarian Book Fair, Over 2000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance, Panama Canal, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco 1915), Park Avenue Armory, Patriotism, Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), poets, Republic of Turkey, sea lions, The Communist Manifesto in pictures, Trade shows, Vichy France, Wolfsonian Museum, wolves, World's Fairs
A VISIT BY MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS
• June 12, 2010 • 1 CommentPosted in AIA, American architects, American Institute of Architects, architects, architecture, British architects, George B. Post (firm), Joseph Maria Olbrich (Austrian 1867-1908), pochoirs, portfolios, RIBA, Royal Institute of British Architects, Sir Edwin Lutyens (British 1869-1944)., Uncategorized
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