| Title: |
Ben Honda
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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: |
Honda speaks about his family background and part-time jobs; service in the United States Army and reflections on the discrimination he experienced in the military; studying architecture at the Institute of Technology; summer work for Sloan Construction (1947-1949); working for Rosen & Horowitz (1950-1952), PACE Associates (1952-1960), and Bertrand Goldberg & Associates (1961-1997); how the Goldberg office grew and changed over the years; problems with Astor Tower; planning and designing health care facilities; key people in the Goldberg office; planning River City and the lessons of Marina City.
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| Extent: |
229 pages
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| URL: |
http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/caohp/honda.pdf
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1999 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Honda, Ben, 1918-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
20-Mar-1918
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| Speaker place of birth: |
California; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
Asian
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| Speaker occupation: |
Architect
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| Age at speaking: |
81
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| Document location: |
Chicago, IL
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| Document date: |
27-Jul-1999
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| Interviewer: |
Blum, Betty J.
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| Organizations discussed: |
U.S. Army
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| Historical events discussed: |
World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
California; Chicago, IL; Illinois; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Architects; Architectural design; Architecture; California; Chicago, IL; Illinois; North America; Oral history; U.S. Army; United States; United States--Armed Forces; Work environment; World War II, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Veterans
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0025539-27401
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