About this artwork
Schweikher completed his bachelor’s degree at Yale’s School of Architecture in 1929. Moving to Chicago in 1930 he worked for several local Modernist architects, including George Fred Keck and Philip Maher. His early reputation as an avant-garde architect was bolstered by his inclusion in the 1933 landmark exhibition on modern architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Schweikher continued in various private partnerships until he was appointed chairman of the School of Architecture at Yale University, and subsequently, in 1958, head of the Department of Architecture at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). The collection consists of correspondence, research materials and photographs generated in the process of nominating Schweikher’s own house in Schaumburg, Illinois, to the National Register of Historic Places.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- AIC Archives
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Artist
- Paul Schweikher (Collected by)
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Title
- Paul Schweikher House and Studio Collection
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Place
- Schaumburg (Building address)
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Date
- Made 1964–1988
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Medium
- Manuscripts, correspondence, printed papers, black and white photographic prints, color photographic prints and color slides.
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Dimensions
- W.: 7.7 cm (3 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Lynn A. Goldstein Trust, 2015; Mark David Schwartz and the Lynn A. Goldstein Trust, 2016.
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Reference Number
- 1990.8
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