Robert Little (architect)
Robert Andrews Little (1919–2005) was a modernist architect based in Cleveland, Ohio. He received the Cleveland Arts Prize for Architecture in 1965. Little practiced in the Bauhaus and International styles. He also designed and advocated energy-efficient features, and employed Jewish and African-American architects and engineers. Born in Boston, he was a direct descendant of Paul Revere. Little studied with Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius. He graduated from Harvard in 1937 and continued there completing his masters 1939. Little came to Cleveland in 1947. He taught at Case Western Reserve University’s school of architecture. His firm, Little & Associates, merged with Dalton·Dalton Associates in 1969. He was married to Ann Halle Little. Work * Halle Brothers Shaker Square department store (1948), located between the Shaker Square Cinemas and the rapid transit station, was his first commission. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and won the C ...
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Modern Architecture
Modern architecture, or modernist architecture, was an architectural movement or architectural style based upon new and innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete; the idea that form should follow function ( functionalism); an embrace of minimalism; and a rejection of ornament. It emerged in the first half of the 20th century and became dominant after World War II until the 1980s, when it was gradually replaced as the principal style for institutional and corporate buildings by postmodern architecture. Origins File:Crystal Palace.PNG, The Crystal Palace (1851) was one of the first buildings to have cast plate glass windows supported by a cast-iron frame File:Maison François Coignet 2.jpg, The first house built of reinforced concrete, designed by François Coignet (1853) in Saint-Denis near Paris File:Home Insurance Building.JPG, The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, by William Le Baron Jenney (1884) File:Const ...
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Timken Residence
Timken may refer to: People * Henry Timken (1831–1909), founder of the Timken Company * Jane Timken (born 1966), politician * William R. Timken (born 1938), U.S. ambassador to Germany Other * Timken, Kansas Timken is a city in Rush County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 38. History Timken was named after a land speculator, Henry Timken, who purchased land in which he believed that the Atchison, Tope ...