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William Wilson Wurster (October 20, 1895 – September 19, 1973) was an American architect and architectural teacher at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, best known for his residential designs in California.
His enthusiasm for architecture inspired generations of students, including Frank O. Gehry, Pierre Koenig, and many others. Straub lived and worked at the epicentre of the evolving Southern California architecture of his day. He knew Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Mather Green, R.M. Schindler personally and was briefly an employee of Richard Neutra. [3]
Alfred W. Smith (1864 - 1933) was an American architect. He designed many commercial and residential buildings as well as churches in the Bay Area of California. [1] For example, he designed the San Francisco Korean Methodist Church in 1930, [1] the Theophilus Allen House in Palo Alto (which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places), [2] and several fraternity houses near the ...
Richard Joseph Neutra (/ ˈ n ɔɪ t r ə / NOI-tra; [1] 8 April 1892 – 16 April 1970) was an Austrian-American architect.Living and building for most of his career in Southern California, he came to be considered a prominent and important modernist architect.
David Baker, FAIA LEED AP (born December 20, 1949), is an American architect based in San Francisco, California. He and his firm, David Baker Architects (with principals Daniel Simons and Amanda Loper), are known primarily for designing affordable housing projects, hotels, and condominium lofts, often in converted old industrial buildings. [ 1 ]
After graduating from Harvard University, Warnecke worked as a building inspector for the public housing authority in Richmond, California. [1] [17] [20] In 1943, he began work as a draftsman for his father's architectural firm [1] [2] [17] (which specialized in the Beaux-Arts architectural style). [4]
In California, the Office of the State Architect (now Division of the State Architect) was created by the Field Act, which authorized the new office to develop design standards and quality control procedures for architectural work. George Sellon was the first State Architect for California. . Chester (Chet) A. Widom was the last state architect ...
Ernest J. Kump Jr. FAIA (December 29, 1911 – November 4, 1999), was an American architect, author, and inventor based in Palo Alto, California.He was widely recognized for his innovations in school planning having designed over 100 public schools in California and 22 community and junior colleges around the world.