Meredith L. Clausen (born 1942) is an American
architectural historian
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Professional requirements
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, and professor emeritus in the School of Art and the Department of Architecture at the
University of Washington
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in
Seattle
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, Washington, USA.
[Meredith L. Clausen Curriculum Vitae and Bibliography]
University of Washington. Retrieved 2010-04-13. She is known for research and writing on
American
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architect
Pietro Belluschi
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and on
Art Nouveau
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architecture
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.
Clausen graduated with a
B.A.
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from
Scripps College
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,
Claremont, California
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, and went on to earn her
M.A.
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(in 1972) and
Ph.D.
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(in 1975) at the
University of California, Berkeley
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. She taught at the University of Washington from 1979 until 2023.
Awards
Her book, ''Spiritual Space'' received a
Washington State Governor's Writer's Award in 1993.
Washington State Book Awards list
In 2023, Clausen was named a Fellow of the
Society of Architectural Historians
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.
Writings
* Clausen, Meredith, ''
Frantz Jourdain
Frantz Jourdain (; 3 October 1847 – 22 August 1935) was a Belgian architect and author. He is best known for La Samaritaine, an Art Nouveau department store built in the 1st arrondissement of Paris in three stages between 1904 and 1928. He was r ...
and
the Samaritaine: Art Nouveau Theory and Criticism'', E. J. Brill, Leiden 1987;
* Clausen, Meredith, ''The Pan Am Building and the Shattering of the Modernist Dream'',
MIT Press
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, Cambridge MA and London 2005;
* Clausen, Meredith, ''Pietro Belluschi: Modern American Architect'',
MIT Press
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, Cambridge MA and London 1994;
* Clausen, Meredith, ''Spiritual Space: The Religious Architecture of Pietro Belluschi''.
University of Washington Press
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, Seattle and London 1992;
Notes
1942 births
Living people
American architecture writers
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American women historians
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