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Come on In: The Dumbarton Oaks Symposium
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filed under:
Byzantine Studies,
Caroline Backlund,
Dumbarton Oaks Papers,
Elizabeth Sgalitzer Ettinghausen,
Garden and Landscape Studies,
Glen Bowersock,
Inge Gaberman,
Josh Wilson,
Mildred Bliss,
Oleg Grabar,
Pre-Columbian Studies,
Richard Diehl,
Robin Cormack,
William Howard Adams,
symposia
If the scholars here at Dumbarton Oaks are the lifeblood of the institute as we know it—the necessities, the aerators of resources, the vital signs—then the ...
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The Philip Johnson Pavilion
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filed under:
Birthing Figure,
Elizabeth Benson,
Fallingwater,
Glass House,
James Curtin,
Jeffrey Quilter,
Mimar Sinan,
Philip Johnson,
Philip Johnson Pavilion,
Pre-Columbian Studies,
Richard Diehl,
echo,
leaks,
pre-columbian
Philip Johnson, perhaps best known for his Glass House, played an important role at Dumbarton Oaks by designing what is often called the Philip ...
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Don’t Feed the Wildlife: Dumbarton Oaks and its Neighbors
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filed under:
Edward Keenan,
Elizabeth Taylor,
Georgetown,
Giles Constable,
James Carder,
Joe Mills,
John Warner,
Josh Wilson,
La Quercia,
Lois Fern,
Margret Dawson,
Mildred Bliss,
Oleg Grabar,
Richard Diehl,
Silvio Luciani,
Susan Toby Evans,
Tony Pereira,
Uncategorized
Though Dumbarton Oaks may feel “otherworldly”, as Margaret Dawson, an associate of Mildred Bliss, has it—what with its self-sufficiently immured Arcadian ...
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The Swimming Pool
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filed under:
Alexander Kazhdan,
Byzantine,
DC,
Dumbarton Oaks,
Garden and Grounds,
Georgetown,
Harvard,
Helen Evans,
James Carder,
James Curtin,
John Thacher,
Margret Dawson,
Richard Diehl,
Swimming pool,
Washington
Out of Dumbarton Oaks’s many prominent garden features, the swimming pool remains one of the most popular. The pool was built in the early 1920s, replacing ...