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February 01 2021
I.M. Pei's JFK Library, in Poetry, Prose, and Meeting Minutes
Edward Eigen
Edward Eigen
Edward Eigen is senior lecturer in the history of landscape and architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is the author of On Accident: Episodes in Architecture and Landscape (MIT Press, 2018). His recent publications investigate the epitaphs in Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana, the documentary history of the Benjamin Franklin “Ghost House,” and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.'s patent for a pencil sharpener.
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Edward Eigen
Edward Eigen is senior lecturer in the history of landscape and architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is the author of On Accident: Episodes in Architecture and Landscape (MIT Press, 2018). His recent publications investigate the epitaphs in Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana, the documentary history of the Benjamin Franklin “Ghost House,” and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.'s patent for a pencil sharpener.
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Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Grey Room (2021) (82): 86–109.
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Edward Eigen; I.M. Pei's JFK Library, in Poetry, Prose, and Meeting Minutes. Grey Room 2021; (82): 86–109. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/grey_a_00317
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