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Sidney Fiske Kimball [1] |
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8 Dec 1888 |
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Male |
| Person ID |
I59294 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
1 Jun 2005 |
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| Notes |
attended Harvard University, receiving his Bachelors degree from the Architecture School in 1909 and his Master of Architecture in 1912.
The curriculum emphasized formal elements of design based on the history of buildings and the built environment. It was based directly on the model provided by the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. The result, according to Kimball, was that Harvard students, "tended to graduate into teaching, writing and editing rather than practice." His career, in fact, included notable contributions in teaching, writing, editing, and practice.
Was an accomplished architectural historian (Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library, University of Virginia)
| Infoplease Entry |
American architect and writer, b. Newton, Mass.
He was professor of architecture and fine arts at the Univ. of Michigan (1912–19) and of art and architecture at the Univ. of Virginia (1919–23) and was in charge of the fine arts department, New York Univ. (1923–25). From 1925 until his retirement in 1955 he was director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and was responsible for the acquisition of many important collections. Much of his architectural work consisted of the restoration of old houses, e.g., of Monticello, the Jefferson home, near Charlottesville, and Stratford, the seat of the Lees, both in Virginia. With G. H. Edgell he wrote A History of Architecture (1918). He was also the author of Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies (1922), American Architecture (1928), and The Creation of the Rococo (1943). |
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- [S1006] Joan Kimball - Bloomingdale, IL Bloomingdale, IL, email from Joan Kimball, (June 2005).
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d. Yes, date unknown