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Downtown Miami: The Old And The New, Nicholas Patricios
Downtown Miami: The Old And The New, Nicholas Patricios
Nicholas Patricios
An architectural tour of the significant historic and modern buildings in downtown Miami organized for the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, June, 2000.
International Style Diaspora: Le Corbusier's Le Groupe Transvaal, Nicholas Patricios
International Style Diaspora: Le Corbusier's Le Groupe Transvaal, Nicholas Patricios
Nicholas Patricios
The philosophy and ideas of modern architecture, labeled the international style that originated in Europe were dispersed widely around the world. The theme in this paper is the transmission of the principles of modern architecture from Western Europe to one place, the tip of Africa. The new views were introduced into South Africa as early as 1925 and were continually applied until the early 1940s when local interpretation of these new views of architecture became apparent. Although Walter Gropius and Mies van de Rohe influenced the architects designing South African buildings during the 1930s and early 1940s, Le Corbusier held …