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Hie architecture of Ulrich Franzen Selected works Text by Peter Blake Foreword by George Weissman Project descriptions by Ulrich Franzen Book design by Massimo Vignelli _r Birkhauser - Publishers for Architecture Basel • Berlin • Boston L Chapter Project Photographer Franzen House, Rye, N.Y. 1956 16 Ezra Stoller Beattie House, Rye, N.Y. 1958 Ezra Stoller Weissman House, Rye, N.Y. 1959 26 Ben Schnall Towers House, Essex, Connecticut 1963 30 Robert Damora Castle House, New London, Connecticut 1964 36 Ezra Stoller Whiting Dress Factory, Pleasantville, N.Y. 1963 Ezra Stoller Bernstein House, Great Neck, N.Y. 1963 50 Joseph Molitor Dana House, New Canaan, Connecticut 1963 5U Robert Damora Buttenweiser House, Mamaroneck, N.Y. 1965 58 Robert Damora Agronomy Building, Ithaca, N.Y. 1968 66 George Czerna 1" Unitarian Church, Richmond, Virginia 1970 7J, David Franzen Harpers Ferry Center, West Virginia 1969 - 72 76 George Czerna University of N.H., Durham, N.H. 1969-72 George Czerna Bloedel Guest House, Williamstown, Mass. 1965 98 Joseph Molitor Alley Theatre, Houston, Texas 1968 102 Ezra Stoller Paraphernalia, NYC, N.Y. 1968 - 70 108 Louis Reens Franzen Penthouse, NYC, N.Y. 1974 - 75 112 Norman McGrath 1" City National Bank, Binghamton, N.Y. 1974 Ilk Ezra Stoller Multi-Cat Research Tower, Ithaca, N.Y. 1974 118 N. McGrath/D. Franzen Harlem School of The Arts, NYC, N.Y. 1974 - 78 Norman McGrath Franzen House, Bridgehampton, N.Y. 1978-79 128 David Franzen Krauss House, Old Westbury, N.Y. 1978 132 Norman Me Grath University Center, Flint, Michigan 1980 - 81 138 Peter Aaron - Esto Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, N.Y. 1981 U2 Peter Aaron - Esto The Evolving City, 1974 15U Lionel Freedman Hunter College, NYC, N.Y. 1975-84 158 Wolfgang Hoyt Miller Brewing Visitors Centers, 1980 - 82 168 U. F. Office Champion International, Stamford, Conn. 1983 170 Norman McGrath Philip Morris Headquarters, NYC, N.Y. 1984 176 W. Rothchild /N. McGrath Morris House, Greenwich, Connecticut 1994 182 Peter Aaron - Esto Glimcher House, Long Island, N.Y. 1985 18J* Baltazar Korab The Cooper Union, NYC, N.Y. 1969 19U Lionel Freedman.

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