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ID: 500045511
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500045511

 

Record Type: Person
Duckett, Edward Austin (American architect, draftsman and teacher, born 1920)

Note: Duckett studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1944 to 1950, but never completed his degree. As a student he worked closely with the architects Ludwig Hilberseimer, Walter Peterhans, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. From 1944 to 1947 Duckett taught at the School of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology. He later taught classes in construction details for four years at the West Kentucky University at Bowling Green, Kentucky. Duckett began working in the Office of Mies van der Rohe in 1944, primarily as a draftsman and model-maker. He worked on buildings for the Illinois Institute of Technology, until Mies lost the commission in 1958. In 1965 Duckett left the Office of Mies van der Rohe, and worked for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill until he retired in 1984.

Names:
Duckett, Edward Austin (preferred,V,index)
Edward Austin Duckett (V,display)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)

Roles:
architect (preferred)
draftsman
teacher

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Warren (Knox county, Kentucky, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
employee of ....  Rohe, Mies van der  1944 - 1965
....................  (German architect, 1886-1969, active in the United States) [500006293]
employee of ....  Skidmore, Owings & Merrill  [unidentified]
....................  (American architectural firm, established 1939) [500045910]
student of ....  Hilberseimer, Ludwig Karl  at the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1944 to 1950
..................  (German architect, city planner, critic, and professor, 1885-1967, active in Germany and America) [500022123]
student of ....  Rohe, Mies van der  at the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1944 to 1950
..................  (German architect, 1886-1969, active in the United States) [500006293]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Duckett, Edward Austin (I)

Biographies:
(American architect, draftsman and teacher, born 1920) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American draughtsman and teacher; born Warren County (Kentucky, United States), 1920) ..... [CCA]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Duckett, Edward Austin ........ [CCA Preferred]
.............................................  Shell, Impressions of Mies van der Rohe (1988)
Edward Austin Duckett ........ [CCA, VP]
...........................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database

Subject: ........ [CCA, VP]
....................  Blaser, Mies van der Rohe (1981) 307
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  Duckett, Response to a questionnaire prepared by Cammie McAtee (1995)
....................  Shell, Impressions of Mies van der Rohe (1988)
 
Note:
English .......... [CCA]
.......... Blaser, Mies van der Rohe (1981) 307
.......... Duckett, Response to a questionnaire prepared by Cammie McAtee (1995) 1-3
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