biography
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Scully, Vincent (Joseph, Jr)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1920– )
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| biography:
| Architectural historian, born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He made major contributions to the history of modern American architecture with his studies of Louis Sullivan's humanism and Frank Lloyd Wright's symbolism, and was an early and energetic promoter of Robert Venturi's work. His 15 books include Modern Architecture: The Architecture of Democracy (1961), American Architecture and Urbanism (1969), and an iconographic study of Greek architecture, The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods... (1962). He was a pre-eminent teacher of architectural history at Yale (1947–91). |
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