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February 1955

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The following events occurred in February 1955:

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February 2, 1955 (Wednesday)

J. F. Bautista (born Pillaro, Ecuador, 1955) is an Artist, Architect and 3D CADD graphic artist. Bautista gained recognition for his 3D architectural visualizations work, but has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, drawings, printmaking, pastel, etc. He completed his education at the school of architecture and urban planning at the Central University of Quito in 1984. Bautista worked as an assistant professor for School of Architecture with Oswaldo Viteri Architect. During the late 1970s he focused on painting and studying art at the American-Ecuadorian arts academy. In 1984 he began to explore more experimental techniques of making art by incorporating collage and objects into his canvases. He made his first solo and group art exhibits works in 1970 and appeared in his first local publications that same year in his native Ambato. He began to exhibit his work in various cities. His work became more architectural oriented in the 1970s as he began his Multiples series of works that use pencil, pastel, crayon, oil, etc. Mr. Bautista migrated to New York City in 1986 and began working with Agustin Maldonado, Architect, Ammann & Whitney Engineering Co., Castro Blanco & Piscioneri, John, J. Kassner Engineering. During this time he achieved a Master certificate in Micro Computers and Microprocessors and worked as a CADD Manager.

His main architectural contributions to the NYC landscape are located in Queens and Brooklyn when he designed two public schools for the NYC Board of Education (PS721Q and PS721K).

In 1995 Mr. Bautista left the private business and started working for the US Army Corps of Engineers. In 2002 he moved to live in Germany and continue working for the Army designing, renovating military structures in Armenia, Belgium, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Republic of Georgia, Romania, Italy, Netherlands and Iraq.

He had been candidate to the STEM Awards in USA.

Notable Publications

  • 2016 Ghost Architecture© Published
  • 2015 Utopian Architecture© Published
  • 2015 Urban Explorer© Published
  • 2014 Empty Architecture© Published
  • 2014 Architecture of Subterranean Species© Published
  • 2013 Architecture of Social Organisms© Published
  • 2012 Reverse Engineering© Published
  • 2012 DARK© Published
  • 2011 J. F. Bautista Architecture© Published
  • 2010 Organic Mutant Architecture© Published
  • 2010 vag-a-bond© Published

    • Notable Art Exhibits

  • MUNDIART Art exhibit - São Paulo, Brazil (2009)
  • Brooklyn Art Project Exhibit - Brooklyn NY, USA (2009)

    • February 4, 1955 (Friday)

  • The Pact of Mutual Cooperation ("Baghdad Pact") is signed.
  • British Navy W-class destroyer HMS Wrangler runs aground at Villefranche sur Mer, France. Refloated on 6 February by Marine Nationale and Marina Militare tugs.

    • ran aground at Villefranche sur Mer, France. Refloated on 6 February by Marine Nationale and Marina Militare tugs.

    February 5, 1955 (Saturday)

  • Lichen Island, a small island lying north of the Bølingen Islands and 5 kilometres (2.5 nmi) north-west of Cleft Island in southern Prydz Bay, Antarctica, is visited by an Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions party led by Phillip Law, who names it for the rich growth of lichens found there.

    • February 9, 1955 (Wednesday)

  • Apartheid in South Africa: 60,000 non-white residents of the Sophiatown suburb of Johannesburg are forcibly evicted.
  • Twenty nautical miles (37 km) southeast of the Tachen Islands, the People's Republic of China shoots down a U.S. Navy AD Skyraider attack aircraft covering the evacuation of Nationalist Chinese forces from the islands.
  • In Italy, the Rome Metro opens to passengers.

    • February 10, 1955 (Thursday)

  • The United States Seventh Fleet helps the Republic of China evacuate Chinese Nationalist army and residents from the Tachen Islands to Taiwan.
  • Born:Chris Adams, English wrestler and judoka (d. 2001)

    • February 11, 1955 (Friday)

  • Died:Ona Munson, American actress (b. 1903)

    • February 12, 1955 (Saturday)

  • U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the first U.S. advisors to South Vietnam.
  • Died:
  • Thomas J. Moore, Irish-American film actor (b. 1883)
  • S. Z. Sakall, Hungarian actor (b. 1883)

    • February 13, 1955 (Sunday)

    Died: Marcella Mariani, 19, Italian actress and model, one of 29 people killed when a Sabena Douglas DC-6 crashes on Mount Terminillo, near Rieti, Italy.

    February 14, 1955 (Monday)

  • The West German cargo ship Hoheweg collides with Sunny Prince and sinks in the English Channel off Dungeness, Kent. All fifteen crew rescued by Sunny Prince and landed at Dover.

    • February 16, 1955 (Wednesday)

  • Nearly 100 die in a fire at a home for the elderly in Yokohama, Japan.

    • February 18, 1955 (Friday)

  • The Cambodian Red Cross is established.

    • February 19, 1955 (Saturday)

  • The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization is established at a meeting in Bangkok.

    • February 20, 1955 (Sunday)

  • Died: Oswald Avery, 77, US physician and medical researcher

    • February 22, 1955 (Tuesday)

  • In Chicago's Democratic primary, Mayor Martin H. Kennelly loses to the head of the Cook County Democratic Party, Richard J. Daley, by 364,839 votes to 264,77.

    • February 23, 1955 (Wednesday)

  • Died: Paul Claudel, 86, French poet, dramatist, and diplomat

    • February 24, 1955 (Thursday)

  • Born: Steve Jobs, US businessman and founder of Apple Inc, in San Francisco, California (died 2011)

    • February 25, 1955 (Friday)

  • Pope Pius XII creates the Roman Catholic Diocese of Penang and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kuala Lumpur.
  • New Zealand philanthropist Edith Winstone Blackwell is awarded the MBE by Governor General Sir Willoughby Norrie.

    • February 26, 1955 (Saturday)

  • George F. Smith becomes the first person to survive a supersonic ejection, from a North American F-100 Super Sabre travelling at Mach 1.05.

    • February 27, 1955 (Sunday)

  • Died: Trixie Friganza, 84, US actress

    • February 28, 1955 (Monday)

  • The Maltese general election ends in another victory for the Malta Labour Party, which wins 23 of the 40 seats.

    • References

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