Edward Blum (other)
Edward Blum may refer to: *Edward Blum (architect) (1867–1944), French-American designer of apartment and office buildings *Edward Blum (litigant), American director of Project on Fair Representation and visiting fellow at American Enterprise Institute *Ed Blum Ed Blum is the director and producer of ''Scenes of a Sexual Nature'' (2006), a low budget British movie starring Ewan McGregor and Sophie Okonedo, filmed entirely on Hampstead Heath. This was his first full-length feature and as Blum said, was m ...

Edward Blum (architect)
Edward Blum (1867–1944) was an architect born in Paris, who, with his brother George Blum, George, designed apartment and office buildings, most of which are in New York City. Blum received his degree in architecture from Columbia University in 1899. Edward and George studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. They are known for their Art Nouveau and Art Deco apartment houses, examples of which include the Phaeton, The Rockfall, The Admaston, The Dallieu, The Gramercy House, The Adlon, and The Gramont.Gray, Christopher"Streetscapes/The Blum Apartment Houses; Deft, Nonconformist Touches, Many Since Vanished" ''New York Times'', 17 October 1993. Retrieved 25 November 2014. Christopher Gray of the ''New York Times'' wrote that the "buildings do everything differently... They treat the surface of the building almost like a textile, a rich continuous surface. They avoid any detail found in the traditional classical vocabulary. They use mosaic tile, art tile, very elongated Roman ...
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Edward Blum (litigant)
Edward Jay Blum is a conservative legal strategist known for his activism against affirmative action based on race and ethnicity. He connects potential plaintiffs with attorneys who are willing to represent them in "test cases" which he tries to use to set legal precedents. He is the director and sole member of the Project on Fair Representation, which he founded in 2005. According to its website, the Project focuses specifically on voting, education, contracting, employment, racial quotas, and racial reparations. Since the 1990s, Blum has been heavily involved in bringing eight cases to the United States Supreme Court. He is a key figure in the '' Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College'' lawsuit. Early life Blum was born into a Jewish family in Benton Harbor, Michigan, where his parents owned and operated the local shoe store. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1973. He then studied West African writers for a year at the ...
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