Meredith L. Clausen (born 1942) is an American

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, and professor in the School of Art and the Department of Architecture at the

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, Washington, USA.Meredith L. Clausen Curriculum Vitae and Bibliography
University of Washington. Retrieved 2010-04-13. She is known for research and writing on

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architect

Pietro Belluschi Pietro Belluschi (August 18, 1899 – February 14, 1994) was an Italian-American architect. A leading figure in modern architecture Modern architecture, or modernist architecture, was an architectural movement or architectural style based up ...

and on

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. Clausen graduated with a

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from

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, and went on to earn her

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(in 1972) and

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(in 1975) at the

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. She has taught at the University of Washington since 1979.

Awards

Her book, ''Spiritual Space'' received a Washington State Governor's Writer's Award in 1993.
Washington State Book Awards list

Writings

* Clausen, Meredith, ''

Frantz Jourdain Frantz Jourdain (3 October 1847 – 22 August 1935) was a Belgian architect and author. He is best known for La Samaritaine, an Art Nouveau department store built in the 1st arrondissement of Paris in three stages between 1904 and 1928. He was re ...

and

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: Art Nouveau Theory and Criticism'', E. J. Brill, Leiden 1987; * Clausen, Meredith, ''The Pan Am Building and the Shattering of the Modernist Dream'',

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, Cambridge MA and London 2005; * Clausen, Meredith, ''Pietro Belluschi: Modern American Architect'',

, Cambridge MA and London 1994; * Clausen, Meredith, ''Spiritual Space: The Religious Architecture of Pietro Belluschi''.

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, Seattle and London 1992;

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