ArtBabble: Eero Saarinen

My Favorite Architect, Deborah Berke

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:40:11 +0000

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Miller House Symposium at the Indianapolis Museum of Art

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Deborah Berke, FAIA, LEED AP, creates buildings that have presence and character — that rely on a discourse between a subtle hand and bold composition to become arresting architecture. Berke is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (B.F.A., 1975; B. Architecture, 1977), The City University of New York (M. Urban Planning in Urban Design, 1984), and in 2005 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, her alma mater.

The American Modern House at Mid-century: Glass House, Farnsworth House, and Eames House, Suzanne Stephens

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:37:34 +0000

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Miller House Symposium at the Indianapolis Museum of Art

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

Suzanne Stephens, a deputy editor of Architectural Record, has been a writer, editor, and critic in the field of architecture for several decades. She has Ph.D. in architectural history from Cornell University, and teaches a seminar in the history of architectural criticism in the architecture program of Barnard and Columbia colleges.

Columbus, Indiana: An Architectural Legacy, Bradley C. Brooks

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:07:57 +0000

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Miller House Symposium at the Indianapolis Museum of Art

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

Bradley C. Brooks is director of historic resources and assistant curator of American decorative arts at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Previously, he served as director of the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas, and as curator, then museum director at the Moody Mansion and Museum in Galveston, Texas. He received a B. A. in communication arts from Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, and an M. A. in early American culture from the Winterthur Program of the University of Delaware. The Miller House and Garden marks his first foray into modernism.

Introducing Miller House and Garden

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:02:51 +0000

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

Commissioned by industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife Xenia Simons Miller in 1953, Miller House expands upon an architectural tradition developed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe—epitomizing the international Modernist aesthetic—with an open and flowing layout, flat roof and stone and glass walls. The rooms, configured beneath a grid pattern of skylights supported by cruciform steel columns, are filled with textiles that feature strong colors and playful patterns.

Miller House and Garden

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:37:20 +0000

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

A "classic of modern horticulture, unsurpassed in the United States..." -- The Magazine Antiques

The IMA has acquired the landmark Miller House and Garden in Columbus, Indiana. One of the country’s most highly regarded examples of mid-century Modernist residences, the Miller House was designed by Eero Saarinen, with interiors by Alexander Girard, and landscape design by Daniel Urban Kiley.