Robert Andrews Little (1919–2005) was a

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based in

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. He received the Cleveland Arts Prize for Architecture in 1965. Little practiced in the

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and International styles. He also designed and advocated energy-efficient features, and employed Jewish and African-American architects and engineers. Born in

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, he was a direct descendant of

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. Little studied with

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 i ...

and

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. 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 Halle Brothers building at Shaker Square is a former department store building constructed in 1948 for the Halle Brothers Co. in the Shaker Square section of Cleveland, Ohio. Designed by architect Robert A. Little, it is listed on the National R ...

(1948), located between the Shaker Square Cinemas and the

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, was his first commission. The building is listed on the

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and won the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce Award for Commercial Building as well as the Architects’ Society of Ohio Medal for Commercial Building. * Albert Pick Music Library at the

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* Timken residence in Canton, Ohio * Little invented and patented a pre-computer design tool called Solux "that allowed him to trace the path of the sun over a cardboard model mechanically, instead of having to use laborious mathematical calculations," used for lighting calculations. * Steel home prototype, on roof of Kauffman's Department Store in Pittsburgh. * All-electric home prototype for

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. * Pepper Ridge development in

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, including a converted barn studio for Cleveland sculptor William McVey (a design that received the Progressive Architecture award). * Community Health Foundation facility in University Circle (later occupied by Kaiser Permanente and then as the Community Dialysis Center) * Jane Addams High School *

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dorms along Cedar Hill * Buildings for

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’s upper school campus in Gates Mills *

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’s spherical Supplementary Education Center (and planetarium) on Lakeside Avenue * Revco corporate headquarters,

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, Ohio (became part of CVS) * United States Air Force Museum in

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. * Cleveland's Metro General Hospital's twin towers (now MetroHealth Medical Center) * Master plan for the revitalization of area around St. Vincent Charity Hospital including the hospital's new buildings. (The plan won Progressive Architecture's urban design award). * Jetport plan for Lake Erie landfill Robert Little
Cleveland Arts Prize

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Little, Robert Architects from Cleveland 1919 births 2005 deaths Architects from Boston Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni Case Western Reserve University faculty