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of Dennison & Hirons was central to the founding and running of the school. Hirons had attended the Paris school from 1904 through 1909; co-founded BAID in 1916; designed the BAID building in 1928 (won through a competition, in the manner of Beaux-Arts); and served as president of the Society of
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BAID architectural competitions were published across the country, administered through university architecture schools or independent studios, and the entries all graded by jury at once. The highest number of entries received was in the 1929–1930 year, when 9500 entries came into New York City for
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Lloyd Warren, architect, was found dead yesterday morning in an areaway below his bedroom at 1 West Sixtyfourth Street. It is believed that he fell accidentally while opening the window of his apartment, which is on the eighth floor. Mr. Warren who was founder of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design,
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deeded over a building at 126 East 75th Street to the newly created BAID. Courses began on September 18, 1916 in three departments. The architecture department was associated with a committee from the Society; the sculpture department with a committee from the National Sculpture Society; and the
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From its beginning in 1894, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects had been interested in improving architectural education in the U.S.. It took on the task of developing standard architectural "programmes" for design problems to be given as assignments in architecture schools and in independent
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were participating. By 1916 the burden of providing problem statements and jurying the work from an increasing number of schools and ateliers exceeded the capacity of the Society, so it established BAID to carry on this work.
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ateliers. The intent was to raise performance standards, but the effect also was to standardize the way architecture was taught all across the United States. By 1900, most American architecture schools and many independent
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The school tended to be populated by students who were either immigrants or first-generation Americans. They often came from working-class backgrounds, and their training was towards getting a union job in the
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This Institute that he founded less than a decade ago is and will remain, in the opinion of its countless friends, the very best monument that could be erected to Lloyd Warren's memory. ...
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BAID also had on-site instruction and classrooms, with large sculpture studios open long hours and into the evenings for the convenience of working students and part-time teachers.
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Among sculpture professionals, the foundation of BAID ensured a supply of competent decorative sculptors, and allowed the members of the
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for the training of American architects, sculptors and mural painters consistent with the educational agenda of the French
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architectural competition was Carl Conrad Franz Kressbach, a student at the Graduate School of Architecture at
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The Study of Architectural Design: With Special Reference to the Program of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design
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and a brother of Whitney Warren, the architect, ... Subject to Sleep-Walking. Not a Suicide, Says Doctor.
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Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
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Stern, Robert A. M.; Gilmartin, Patrick; Mellins, Thomas (1987).
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Former art and architectural school in Manhattan, New York
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to position themselves as fine artists in comparison.
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Turtle Bay, Manhattan
Lloyd Warren
École des Beaux-Arts
Egypt
United Nations
National Sculpture Society
National Sculpture Society
Society of Mural Painters
Frederic Charles Hirons
Lloyd Warren
Whitney Warren
Warren and Wetmore
Whitney Warren
Harvard University
Van Alen Institute
building trades
Art Students League of New York
Edmond Romulus Amateis
Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano
Gaetano Cecere
Rose Connor
Pasadena, California
Herbert Ferber
Mitchell Fields
Harold H. Fisher
Paul Fjelde
Pratt Institute
Vincent Glinsky
Chaim Gross

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