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Author Wilson, Dreck Spurlock, author

Title Julian Abele : architect and the beaux arts / Dreck Spurlock Wilson
Published New York : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Series Minorities in architecture
Minorities in architecture.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Advantages of Family, Color and Place; 2 Institute for Colored Youth; 3 Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art; 4 University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture; 5 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; 6 Philadelphia T-Square Club; 7 North by Northwest; 8 Out of South Philadephia; 9 Office of Horace Trumbauer; 10 Personal Azimuth; 11 Pennsylvania Museum of Art; 12 "A Great Towering Church"; 13 American Institute of Architects
14 "In My Father's House There Are Many Mansions ... "15 Epilogue; Appendix A: Jones-Abele-Cook Family Tree; Appendix B: Office of Horace Trumbauer Building List; Bibliography; Index
Summary Julian Abele, Architect and the Beaux Arts uncovers the life of one of the firstbeaux arts trainedAfrican American architects. Overcoming racial segregation at the beginning of thetwentieth century, Abele received his architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1902. Wilson traces Abele's progress as he went on to become the most formally educated architect in America at that time. Abele later contributed to the architectural history of America by designing over 200 buildings throughout his careerincluding the Widener Memorial Library (1913) at Harvard University and the Free Library of Philadelphia (1917). Architectural history is a valuable resource for those studying architecture. As such this bookis beneficial for academics and students of architecture and architectural historians with a particular interest in minority discussions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-210) and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Abele, Julian F., 1881-1950.
Architects -- United States -- Biography
African American architects -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
ARCHITECTURE -- General.
African American architects
Architects
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020692583
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