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Ralph Rapson (born 1914) is a modernist architect born in Alma, Michigan. He was educated at the University of Michigan and Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan under Eliel Saarinen. Rapson led the New Bauhaus School in Chicago, and practiced in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stockholm, and Paris before becoming head of the architecture school at the University of Minnesota in 1954.His building projects include
- the United States embassies in Stockholm and Copenhagen, both 1954;
- the Pillsbury House in Wayzata, Minnesota, 1963;
- the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, MinnesotaThis article is about the city in Minnesota. There is also Minneapolis, Kansas. Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 382,618 making it the largest city in Minnesota. It is 1963;
- the Cedar-Riverside housing complex in Minneapolis, MinnesotaThis article is about the city in Minnesota. There is also Minneapolis, Kansas. Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 382,618 making it the largest city in Minnesota. It is, 1962Events January January 1 Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand January 3 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro January 4 New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board January 8 Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is e (a federally funded New-Town-in-Town )
He also designed furniture and accessories, and had his own furniture line in the 1950sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Years: 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb..
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