| Title: |
Natalie de Blois
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Art Institute of Chicago. Ryerson and Burnham Libraries
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| Collection: |
Chicago Architects Oral History Project
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| Description: |
De Blois speaks about her architectural study at Columbia University, New York City; work on commissions with Gordon Bunshaft in the New York office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill; study as a Fulbright Scholar in Paris; moving to Chicago to work in the SOM office with Bruce Graham; her interest and participation in improving the status of women in architecture; how she balanced professional and personal responsibilities; teaching and working in Austin and Houston, Texas.
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| Extent: |
156 pages
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| URL: |
http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/caohp/deblois.pdf
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 2002 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
de Blois, Natalie, 1921-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1921
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Paterson, NJ; New Jersey; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Architect
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| Age at speaking: |
81
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| Document location: |
Connecticut
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| Document date: |
12-Mar-2002
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| Interviewer: |
Blum, Betty J.
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| Organizations discussed: |
Columbia University, New York, NY
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| Locations discussed: |
Chicago, IL; Europe; France; Ile-de-France, France; Illinois; New York; New York, NY; North America; Paris, Ile-de-France, France; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Architects; Architectural firms; Architecture; Architecture--Study and teaching; Chicago, IL; Columbia University, New York, NY; Europe; France; Ile-de-France, France; Illinois; New York; New York, NY; North America; Oral history; Paris, Ile-de-France, France; United States; Women architects
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0025526-27385
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