| Title: |
Gene Summers
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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: |
Summers speaks about his architectural education at Texas A & M and at the Illinois Institute of Technology; the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois; working in Mies's office; military service in the United States Corps of Engineers during the Korean War; the Seagram Building in New York City; Phyllis Bronfman Lambert's involvement with the Seagram Building; Mies's plan for the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology; the Federal Center in Chicago; leaving Mies's office; joining C.F. Murphy Associates as a design partner; McCormick Place; starting a development company with Phyllis Lambert; relocating in France; the relationship between Richard J. Daley and Charles F. Murphy Sr.; Summers's art collection.
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| Extent: |
123 pages
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| URL: |
http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/caohp/summers.pdf
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1987 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Summers, Gene, 1928-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1928
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| Speaker place of birth: |
San Antonio, TX; Texas; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Architect; Dean; Real estate developer
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| Age at speaking: |
59
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| Document location: |
Chicago, IL
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| Document date: |
07-Oct-1987
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| Interviewer: |
Saliga, Pauline
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| Organizations discussed: |
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
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| Historical events discussed: |
Korean Conflict, 1950-1953
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| Locations discussed: |
Asia; Chicago, IL; College Station, TX; Illinois; Korea; North America; Texas; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Architects; Architectural firms; Architecture; Architecture--Study and teaching; Asia; Chicago, IL; College Station, TX; Illinois; Korea; Korean Conflict, 1950-1953; Korean War, 1950-1953--Veterans; North America; Oral history; Texas; Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; United States; United States--Armed Forces; Work environment
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0025556-27420
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