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People
Pages - Who's Who of the Recent Past
Architects
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Welton
Becket & Associates (1902-1969) See our RPPN
Becket page for more information. |
| Taylor
Hardwick |
"No
other living architect has had a more powerful positive influence
on the built environment in Jacksonville, Florida, than Taylor Hardwick.
Along with his partner W. Mayberry Lee, of Hardwick & Lee Architects,
Mr. Hardwick enhanced the North Florida built environment over a 50-year
career. Unfortunately, many of his masterpieces from the mid-20th
century have been demolished, abused, or are in peril of achieving
a similar fate...."
See numerous examples of this architect's work at the Taylor
Hardwick, AIA site. |
| I.M.
Pei
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners |
The
official Pei Cobb Freed
& Partners Architects LLC web site. An unusually comprehensive
site of the firm's work over the last fifty years with in-depth
descriptions of projects and photographs.
A chronology
of projects, 1949-1999, is listed at Per
Wahlin's home page with some photographs by the author. |
| William
Wesley Peters
(1912-1991) |
A
Wright apprentice, Peters became Chief Architect and Vice President
for Taliesin Associated Architects in 1959, the year of Wright's
death. See these links for more information:
Price Tower Arts
Center: WW Peters
WW Peters
Memorial Library
Ascencion Lutheran Church, Paradise Valley, AZ (architect)
Snowflake
Motel, St. Joseph, MI. Listed on the National Register.
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| Rudolph
Schindler |
Schindler’s
Paradise: Architectural Resistance, August 6 – November 22, 2003
In an effort to generate fresh alternatives to ill-conceived
construction adjacent to the landmark R. M. Schindler Studio and Residence
on Kings Road, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture called upon
some of the world’s best architects, each of whom has submitted an
alternative vision to this juried invitational. The exhibit highlights
the projects and includes a catalogue illustrating all of the submissions.
See the MAK Center
for more information. |
Robert
O. Scholz |
Scholz
(1895-1978), a prominent Washington, DC architect and builder, was
born in New York and came to Washington in 1918 to work for the U.S.
Navy designing yards and dock buildings. Two of Scholz’ most
prominent Washington, DC buildings, both originally apartments, are
the Gothic Revival-style Alban Towers (1928), located at Massachusetts
and Wisconsin Avenue, NW (listed on the National Register of Historic
Places) and the Art Deco-style General Scott (1940), located at #1
Scott Circle, NW. See his work with the nationally renowned Bank Building
and Equipment Corp. of America, headquartered in St, Louis, Missouri,
at the 1958 Perpetual
Building Association in Silver Spring, Maryland. (Information
submitted by Jerry A. McCoy) |
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Partner
in the firm of Keyes, Smith, Satterlee, & Lethbridge. In 1960, Chloethiel
Woodard Smith was inducted as a Fellow into the American Institute
of Architects, the sixth woman so honored. She was a founding Trustee
of the National Building Museum and, by 1967, ran the largest female-led
architectural firm in the United States. See our RPPN
Smith page for more information on the architect and her buildings.
Activities Building, Chestnut Lodge,
Rockville, MD (1955-75) |
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See
our RPPN Stone page for more information.
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| Mies
Van de Rohe |
National
Trust for Historic Preservation wins auction - new owner of Mies'
Farnsworth House
The
Trust won a contentious auction with a final bid of $6.7 million
($7.5 million after fees to Sotheby's) thanks to a number of last
minute contributors. Read the full story at the Washington
Post. The Trust still needs funds to create an endowment for
the house. See more details at the Farnsworth
House site.
Mies
Van de Rohe Society at IIT. "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's
campus at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) is universally
recognized as a landmark in the history of modern architecture.
We invite you to become a member of the Mies van der Rohe Society
and help us to: Preserve Mies' legacy and maintain the architectural
integrity of his buildings at IIT; Enhance educational programs
for IIT students; Reinforce Chicago's international reputation for
architectural distinction" |
| Paul
Rudolph |
Paul
Rudolph: The Florida Houses & The Cannon Chapel On Display September
10 – December 30, 2004 Opening Reception: September 9, to coincide
with Turner First Thursdays downtown gallery stroll, 5:30-9:00 Paul
Rudolph's early residential work in Florida, featured in this exhibit,
provided the genesis for the renowned architect's multi-layered design
methodology and played a significant role in mid-century American
design. His early residential work in Florida that inspired curators
Christopher Domin and Joseph King to write the book, "Paul Rudolph:
The Florida Houses" were modest, economically built homes designed
to harmonize with the surrounding nature. The exhibit will include
scale models, drawings from the Paul Rudolph archive, and period photography
by noted architectural photographer, Ezra Stoller. As an additional
component to The Florida Houses, the Museum commissioned Domin and
King to create an exhibit exploring the design of Atlanta's own Rudolph
treasure--the Cannon Chapel on the Emory University Campus. This exhibit
will also feature models, drawings, and dramatic photography by Gordon
Schenck. |
| John
Jacob Zink |
Zink
designed theaters from the 1920s into the 1950s, a major competitor
to John Eberson. Among his theaters are the National Register listed
"The Senator" in Baltimore, "The Uptown Theater" in Wash., D.C., on
Conn. Ave., the 1924 Takoma
Theater, Takoma, D.C., very much in use today, and the Art Deco
Flower Theater, 1950, Silver Spring, Md., using zig-zag motifs. |
Landscape
Architects
Informative
Links:
Design
Within Reach. This company dedicated a portion of their
site to designer biographies, both historic and contemporary, including
Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Schultz, Sori Yanagi, and others.
Frank
Lloyd Wright Foundation A
non-profit organization dedicated to conserving the work of Frank Lloyd
Wright and advancing the principles of organic architecture.
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