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HAWAIIAN MODERN: THE ARCHITECTURE OF VLADIMIR OSSIPOFF.
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The Architectural Review
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August 1, 2008
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This handsome, scholarly survey of the productive career of a Russian-born architect who settled in Hawaii in 1931 and worked there until his death in 1998, accompanies an exhibition that was first presented at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and will travel to Yale in September and to Frankfurt next spring. Vladimir Ossipoff was a tropical Modernist, a leader in the shift from universality to regionalism in the Americas in the post-war decades. He helped transform the architecture of Hawaii as it evolved from a sleepy colony with a scatter of imported buildings to statehood and tourist hub.
Curator Dean Sakamoto and historian Karla Britton provide an admirable summary of ...
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