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Rutkin, Seymour

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: circa 1925 - 2007

Biographical Note

Seymour Rutkin graduated with a degree in architecture from Cooper Union in 1946. He designed hospitals, offices, residences, and schools, but was best known for The Shell House (2004) in Roxbury, New York. Rutkin died in July 2007.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Seymour Rutkin correspondence with Jane Jacobs

 Collection — Shared_box 1012
Abstract

One exchange of letters between architect and affordable housing activist Seymour Rutkin to urbanologist and architectural critic Jane Jacobs regarding her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

Restrictions on Access

Open for research.

Dates: 1962 March10-April 2