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Sekler, Eduard F. (Eduard Franz)

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Personal name headingSekler, Eduard F. (Eduard Franz)
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Variant(s)Sekler, Eduard Franz
Birth date1920-09-30
Death date2017-05-01
Place of birthVienna (Austria)
Place of deathCambridge (Mass.)
Field of activityArchitecture Art--Study and teaching Historic preservation
AffiliationHarvard University
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust
Profession or occupationArchitects Architectural historians College administrators
Found inHis Annus mirabilis, 1951.
His Josef Hoffmann, c1982: t.p. (Eduard F. Sekler) jkt. (Architekt, Architekthistoriker und Prof. an der Harvard University)
His Josef Hoffmann, 1985, c1984: CIP t.p. (Eduard F. Sekler) data sheet (b. 9-30-20)
Information from 678 converted Dec. 8, 2014 (Dipl. Ing., Dr. phil.)
Harvard gazette, via WWW, viewed Sept. 6, 2017 (in article dated May 18, 2017: Eduard Franz Sekler, an architecture historian and first director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, died on May 1; he was 96; the Austria-born Sekler studied in Vienna and, later, London, before joining the faculty at Harvard in 1954; in 1962, Sekler became coordinator of studies at the newly built CCVA, becoming its director four years later; co-founded the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) with the late Albert Szabo; in 1990, he founded the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust, which has saved more than 50 buildings and monuments)
Legacy.com, via WWW, viewed Sept. 6, 2017 (SEKLER, Eduard Franz Dipl-Ing., MA, PhD., PhD. Hon.; b.Vienna, Austria 30 Sept.1920, d.Cambridge 1 May 2017)
Associated languageger eng