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Constance Abernathy

1931 – 1994

American architect

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Lived 1931 – 1994 (aged 62). Constance Abernathy was an American architect.

Constance Abernathy ( Davies; June 20, 1931 – June 18, 1994) was an American architect, jeweler, and associate of Buckminster Fuller.

Architecture Abernathy worked on a special project studying with Buckminster Fuller to create the geodesic dome egg carton form of architecture and functioned as Fuller's secretary maintaining sections of his files and archives. Between 1966 and 1971, she directed Fuller's New York office.

Jewelry Beginning in 1977, Abernathy became a jeweler. Her works are in the collections of the Cooper Hewitt and Museum of Art and Design.

Personal life Born in Detroit, Michigan, she attended Cass Technical High School and University of Michigan Architecture school (class of 1953).

She married J. T. Abernathy, a potter and art professor at the University of Michigan, in the 1950s, but their union did not last long. She left Ann Arbor, Michigan for Paris shortly after, arriving in the swinging scene of the Paris 1960s. She worked as an architect in Europe and married a filmmaker.

In the early 1990s, she was diagnosed with cancer and died as a result in 1994. Before she died, she had a farewell party for her closest friends; and she distributed her worldly possessions among them as her way of saying goodbye. She died two days before her 63rd birthday at home in her Chelsea apartment in New York City.

Archive Abernathy's papers are available at the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

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University of Michigan
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Constance Davies

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American architect (1931-1994)

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Constance Abernathy was born on 20 June 1931 in Detroit.

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Constance Abernathy died on 18 June 1994.

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Constance Abernathy was an architect.

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Constance Abernathy was American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Constance Abernathy

· Wikidata: Q5163491

· DBpedia: Constance Abernathy

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