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Namdi Ellah
HTC 4
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Architecture
Undergraduate 4
02/25/2013

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Jorn Utzon, Sidney Opera House with a student’s caricature during the Queen Elizabeth II inauguration (built 1957-1973). 

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To protest the war, Quang Duc, a seventy-three year old Buddhist monk, soaked Himself in gasoline and set himself on fire on June 11, 1963 in the presence of Thousands of on lookers. He was also protesting the American support of the S. V Government who were not friendly to the Buddhists. 

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Facades drawn by Venturi in 1977 demonstrating his idea of “more is not less.” 

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Robert Venturi, Country Home in Northern Delaware, 1978-83. 

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Minoru Yamasaki, Award wining public housing, Pruitt Igoe, St. Louis, Missouri, Completed between 1952- 55, but demolished in 1972. Pruitt Igeo Became the Grand Symbol of the Evils of the Modern Movement against American Cities. 

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Charles Jencks, Egyptian Room of the Thematic House, and Architectural Library 

Of the Thematic House, both 1979 - 84 

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