Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1903, Aug. 2 | Born, Albany, N.Y. |
1925 | A.B., Columbia College, New York, N.Y. |
1925-1928 | Studied at Columbia School of Architecture, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
1928-1932 | Studied at Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany |
1932-1933 | Studied at Bauhaus, Berlin, Germany |
1933-1934 | Studied privately under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
1935-1939 | Designer, Wallace K. Harrison and J. A. Fouilhoux, architects, New York, N.Y. |
1940-1941 | Designer, Raymond Loewy, New York, N.Y., and Antonin Raymond, New Hope, Pa. |
1941-1942 | Instructor in architecture and structural design, Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, N.C. |
1943-1944 | Assistant professor and resident architect, Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis. |
1944 | Married Barbara Louise Timmons (died 1973) |
1944-1946 | Head, Department of Design, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. |
1946-1956 | Assistant architectural records editor, Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Va. |
1946-1957 | Lecturer in architectural design, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va. |
1953 | Coauthored Shadows in Silver; a Record of Virginia, 1850-1900, in Contemporary Photographs Taken By George and Huestis Cook, with Alfred Lawrence Kocher. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons |
1954-1957 | Director, Society of Architectural Historians |
1957-1971 | Associate professor of architecture, School of Architecture and Planning, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill. |
1967-1968 | Associate editor, Inland Architect |
1979, Mar. 7 | Died, Alexandria, Va. |
1986 | Posthumous publication of Inside the Bauhaus, edited by David Spaeth. New York: Rizzoli |