Carter Hugh Manny, Jr. (November 16, 1918A Boyhood Revisited, hosted by The Art Institute of Chicago – February 1, 2017 in

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) studied architecture under

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and

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and spent his career as an architect and foundation administrator in Chicago. His work helped shape

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,Oral History of Carter Manny by Franz Schulze, page 179 the FBI BuildingOral History of Carter Manny by Franz Schulze, page 237 in Washington, D.C., the

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,Oral History of Carter Manny by Franz Schulze, page 254 and the addition to the

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Education

Carter Hugh Manny, Jr., architect and foundation administrator was born in

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on November 16, 1918, the son of Carter H. and Ada Barnes Manny. After attending public schools in Michigan City, he went on to

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where he was

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and graduated magna cum laude in 1941. During his last year as an undergraduate Manny began his architectural studies at the Graduate School of Design under

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and

Marcel Breuer Marcel Lajos Breuer ( ; 21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981), was a Hungarian-born modernist architect and furniture designer. At the Bauhaus he designed the Wassily Chair and the Cesca Chair, which ''The New York Times'' have called some of the most im ...

. With war clouds gathering in mid-1941, he shifted to a special war production program at the

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where he obtained a degree in Industrial Administration in 1942. During WWII he worked for a division of the War Production Board at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.

Architectural career

After the war Manny returned to architectural studies, first with a brief stint as an apprentice of

at Taliesin and then with two years under

at the

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in Chicago. Following graduation from IIT in 1948 he began architectural practice with the Chicago firm of Naess & Murphy, becoming a partner in 1957. He spent his entire professional career with this firm and its two successors, C.F. Murphy Associates and Murphy/Jahn, until he retired at the end of 1983. Among the major projects in which he led the team of architects are

(an unusually long assignment that lasted off and on for 27 years until his retirement), the FBI Building in Washington, D.C., the

, and the addition to the

Graham Foundation

In addition to his architectural practice, Carter Manny is widely known for his work over many years with the Graham Foundation of Chicago.Oral History of Carter Manny by Franz Schulze, page 428 The foundation is internationally recognized for its support of educational activities in architecture and in related fields of the fine arts. Manny served as a trustee of the foundation for several years after its formation in 1956 and later became its director, serving in this capacity for 22 years until his retirement in December 1993. He is credited with shaping many of the policies of this institution and with guiding it through a perilous period in the 1980s when the foundation's continued existence was seriously threatened. Following his retirement the foundation's trustees created a special grant in his honor to be awarded annually to a doctoral candidate in architectural history. In the early 1990s Carter Manny was the subject of a lengthy oral history taken by the noted art and architecture critic, Franz Schulze, as part of a series on Chicago architects for the

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. It is now hosted online by the Art Institute, as is his childhood memoir: A Boyhood Revisited: 1918-1937. The Carter H. Manny, Jr. Papers, a collection of archival materials, is held by the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries at the

Associations

Manny was a fellow of the

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and of the Illinois Society of Architects. He was a past president of the Chicago Chapter of AIA, a past director of the Society of Architectural Historians and is a Fellow of the Society. He also served on the advisory committee of both the Art Institute of Chicago and Illinois Institute of Technology. He was a member of the Tavern Club while living in Chicago and Michigan City as well as the

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and the Arts Club.

Family

In 1942 he married Mary Alice Kellett who died in 1994. There were two children from this marriage, Elizabeth Manny and Carter H. Manny III, as well as a grandson William Manny. In 1995 Carter Manny married Maya Moran, née Uyterhoeven, an artist and writer. He resided in California.

References

External links

''A Boyhood Revisited'' by Carter Manny
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Graham FoundationCarter Manny Award
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