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Florence Knoll Bassett (born May 24, 1917) is an American architect and furniture designer who studied under Mies van der Rohe and Eliel Saarinen. She was born in Saginaw, Michigan as Florence Schust and is known in familiar circles simply as "Shu". She graduated from the Kingswood School before studying at the Cranbrook Academy of Art (both institutions are located on the same campus in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan). Knoll also received a bachelor's degree in architecture from Armour Institute (now Illinois Institute of Technology) in 1941 and briefly worked with leaders of the Bauhaus movement, including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and the American modernist, Wallace K. Harrison. ==Early Life & Education== Florence Marguerite Schust was born May 24, 1917 in Saginaw, Michigan to Frederick E. Schust and Mina Haist Schust. Frederick was born circa 1882 in either Switzerland or Germany, was a native German-speaker, and the 1920 United States Federal Census describes him as a superintendent at a bakery factory. Mina was born circa 1887 in Michigan, although her parents had been born in Canada.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Ancestry.com )〕 Frederick died relatively young, some time before the 1930 United States Federal Census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Ancestry.com )〕 From 1932-34 Florence Knoll attended Kingswood School in Cranbrook, and the Cranbrook Academy of Art from 1934-1935, where she studied under Eliel Sarrinen, father of Eero Saarinen. In 1935 she studied town planning at the School of Architecture at Columbia University. From 1936-1937 she explored furniture-making with Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames. Then in 1928-1939 she was at the Architectural Association in London, and was influenced by Le Corbusier’s International style, but she left as World War II was spreading. In 1940, Florence Knoll, moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and worked for Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, and was influenced by the Bauhaus school and Marcel Breuer's steel-tubed modern furniture. This led to the Illinois Institute of Technology (Armour Institute) in Chicago, where she studied under Mies van der Rohe. Florence Knoll had many mentors that influenced her design: "Rachel de Wolfe Raseman, the art director of Kingswood and a graduate architect from Cornell University. She guided me into the world of architecture and design. I learned the basics of planning and drafting and my first project was to design a house." "The Saarinens befriended me and took me under their wing. They asked my guardian for permission to accompany them to Hvitrask, their home in Finland for the summer....One summer at Hvitrask, Eero decided to give me a course in architectural history. He talked and drew these sketches simultaneously on sheets of stationery beginning with Greek, Roman and Byzantine periods. He discussed each detail as the drawings appeared on the paper." "Mies van der Rohe had a profound effect on my design approach and the clarification of design." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Florence Knoll」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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