1. Ralph Rapson was Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota for 30 years.
11 Facts About Ralph Rapson
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Ralph Rapson was an interdisciplinary designer, one of the world's oldest practicing architects at his death at age 93, and one of the most prolific.
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Ralph Rapson earned architecture degrees at the University of Michigan, and at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he studied under Eliel Saarinen.
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Ralph Rapson moved to Chicago in 1941, where he worked with George Fred Keck and others.
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Ralph Rapson taught architecture at the New Bauhaus School in Chicago under Laszlo Maholy-Nagy from 1942 to 1946, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1946 to 1954.
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Ralph Rapson was Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota from 1954 to 1984, where "generations of Minnesota architects came up through [his] tutelage".
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Ralph Rapson's work was predominantly in the Modernist style and greatly influenced by his time at the New Bauhaus School.
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Ralph Rapson was a prolific sketch artist and kept volumes of sketchbooks from his various world travels.
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Ralph Rapson died quietly in his home in Minneapolis on March 29,2008.
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Ralph Rapson was working in his office the previous day.
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Ralph Rapson was described as a "rock star" in the field.