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Newhouse established the Architectural History Foundation, a nonprofit scholarly book publisher, in 1977. The foundation aimed to support books that would otherwise be unpublished, and to raise the quality of works about architecture. Newhouse closed the foundation in 1994, stating that its mission
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in 1959, having majored in French. She moved to Paris and married French count Régis de Ramel there. The two later divorced, and Newhouse returned to New York. She began working in architecture as the architecture editor for
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She has been a long-term art collector and museum patron. She and her husband had an apartment at the UN Plaza, as well as homes in Bellport and Palm Beach. The homes are decorated with the family's large art collection.
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Victoria Newhouse's works have a variety of subjects over time periods and regions, though she analyzes architecture in each of her works by referencing buildings' structural, social, and political aspects.
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She married a French count, Régis de Ramel, obtaining the name Victoria Carrington Benedict de Ramel. The marriage ended in divorce, with no children. On April 13, 1973, she married
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Victoria Newhouse was raised in Manhattan, New York City; her parents were John C. Benedict, a retired investment banker, and an English mother. She graduated from the
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Newhouse was raised Episcopal, though she became a devout Catholic later in life, with a strong interest in religions.
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Chaos and Culture: Renzo Piano Building Workshop and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens
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graduate. After graduation, she moved to Paris, where she met her first husband, French count Régis de Ramel.
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Site and Sound: The Architecture and Acoustics of New Opera Houses and Concert Halls
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Parks of the 21st century : reinvented landscapes, reclaimed territories
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One of Newhouse's early jobs was as the architecture editor for
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Newhouse grew up in New York City and graduated from
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Victoria Carrington Benedict de Ramel
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Bryn Mawr College
George Braziller, Inc.
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Bryn Mawr College
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Columbia University
Wallace K. Harrison
Pritzker Prize
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