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we found one female in the records from 1882 to 1996, and one more in the ‘past winners’ section that covers 2005 to 2014—and that’s including an alternate male in 2005! thanks to paperarchitect for the tip.
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Lu Wenyu rechazó en 2012 el llamado Nobel de la arquitectura que recayó en su marido y socio Wang Shu.
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Torre, Giovanni Maria della, 1713-1782. Nuove osservazione microscopiche, 1766.
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Houghton Library, Harvard University
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“[H]is preternatural stamina, the command he displayed in every situation, his enormous personal presence—these qualities seemed to flow directly,” Finnegan wrote, “out of the depths of his political convictions.”
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/12/nelson-mandela-in-the-new-yorker.html
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RIP Nelson Mandela via @newyorker
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/12/nelson-mandela-a-life-in-photographs.html#slide_ss_0=12
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Clark, Fraser. Mona Lisa.
London, 2013, 480 pages.
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Chipperfield museum for Fundacion Jumex opens in Mexico City. Admission fee: $30. Also this striped marble floor by Martin Creed in the bookstore.
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Bronx Community College, (previously site of NYU), south view with residence hall and lecture hall buildings, between 1957 and 1961 / Ben Schnall, photographer. Marcel Breuer papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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from Scenes from a designer’s counterpractice / @Soulellis
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The drawings are the property of the pupil; but every free pupil is required, on quitting the school, to leave one specimen of her work for the permanent gallery of the department.
via NYTimes; Cooper, 1864
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