Julian Abele - Architect and the Beaux Arts

Julian Abele, Architect and the Beaux Arts uncovers the life of one of the first African American architects in America. Despite racial segregation at the beginning of the 20th century, Abele received his architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

List of contents

1. Advantages of Family, Color and Place  2. Institute of Colored Youth  3. Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art  4. University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture  5. Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts  6. North by Northwest  7. Out of South Philly  8. Office of Horace Trumbauer  9. Philadelphia T-Square Club  10. Personal Azimuth  11. Pennsylvania Museum of Art  12. A Great Towering Church  13. American Institute of Architects  14. In My Father's House  15. Epilogue

About the author

Dreck Spurlock Wilson is a graduate of Iowa State University, USA and the University of Chicago, USA. He was an Associate Professor of Architectural History at Howard University and Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Morgan State University and is a licensed landscape architect. Dreck is the editor and a contributing author of the Biographical Dictionary of African American Architects, 1865-1945 also published by Taylor & Francis.

Summary

Julian Abele, Architect and the Beaux Arts uncovers the life of one of the first African American architects in America. Despite racial segregation at the beginning of the 20th century, Abele received his architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Product details

• Authors: Dreck Spurlock Wilson, eck Spurlock Wilson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367662219
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66221-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Minorities in Architecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / General, ARCHITECTURE / Methods & Materials, Individual architects & architectural firms, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / Monographs, History of Architecture, Individual architects and architectural firms