Allan Temko

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1924 – 2006

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Who was Allan Temko?

Allan Bernard Temko was a Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic and writer based in San Francisco.

Born in New York City and raised in Weehawken, New Jersey, Temko served as a U.S. Navy officer in World War II, graduated from Columbia University in 1947, and continued his graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. He taught for several years in France and produced a landmark book about the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Notre Dame of Paris, in 1955. He wrote architectural criticism for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1961 to 1993. He also taught city planning and the social sciences at the University of California, Berkeley and California State University, Hayward.

Following Finnish-born architect Eero Saarinen's death in 1961, Temko published Eero Saarinen, a critical examination of Saarinen's most famous works from the General Motors Technical Center to the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial and its Gateway Arch, as a volume in George Braziller's Makers of Contemporary Architecture series.

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Born
Feb 4, 1924
New York City
Also known as
  • Allan Bernard Temko
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Bachelor of Arts, Columbia University
    ( - 1947)
  • Sorbonne
Lived in
  • California
    ( - 2006/01/25)
Died
Jan 25, 2006
Orinda

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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