Welton David Becket (August 8, 1902 – January 16, 1969) was an American modern

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who designed many buildings in

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Biography

Becket was born in Seattle, Washington and graduated from the University of Washington program in Architecture in 1927 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree (

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). He moved to Los Angeles in 1933 and formed a partnership with his University of Washington classmate Walter Wurdeman and Angelean architect

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. Their first major commission was the

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in 1935, which won them residential jobs from James Cagney, Robert Montgomery, and other film celebrities. Plummer died in 1939. The successor firm Wurdeman and Becket went on to design Bullock's Pasadena (1944) and a couple of corporate headquarters. Wurdeman and Becket developed the concept of "total design," whereby their firm would be responsible for master planning, engineering, interiors, furniture, fixtures, landscaping, signage, and even (in the case of restaurants) menus, silverware, matchbooks, and napkins. After Wurdeman's death in 1949, Becket formed Welton Becket and Associates and continued to grow the firm to the extent that it was one of the largest architectural offices in the world by the time of his death in 1969. In 1987, his firm was acquired by Ellerbe Associates, and the merged firm continued as Ellerbe Becket until the end of 2009, when it was acquired by

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. It is now known as Ellerbe Becket, an AECOM Company. Becket's buildings used unusual facade materials such as

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and stainless steel grillwork, repetitive geometric patterns, and a heavy emphasis on walls clad in natural stone, particularly

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and

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. With

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and the United States Steel Corporation, Becket's firm co-designed Disney's Contemporary Resort, which opened in 1971 at

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. The Contemporary was designed as a 14-story steel A-frame with a monorail running through the building. Modular guest rooms were assembled, finished, furnished, fully equipped and their doors locked, on the ground, then lifted by crane and inserted into the frame; however, this sometimes took multiple tries. Welton Becket was elected a

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of the

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in 1952. Becket's sons, Welton MacDonald Becket & Bruce Becket, are also practicing architects, as well as his nephew MacDonald G. Becket and granddaughter Alexandra Becket.

Commissions

Becket's extensive list of credits includes: *777 Main Street, Hartford Connecticut *

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, CA, 1935 (with Walter Wurdeman) (destroyed by fire) * Jones Dog & Cat Hospital,

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, 1938 (with Walter Wurdeman) *

Manila Jai Alai Building The Manila Jai Alai Building was a building designed by American architects Welton Becket and Walter Wurdeman that functioned as a building for which jai alai games were held. It was built in the Streamline Moderne style in 1940 and survived ...

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, Philippines, 1939 (with Walter Wurdeman) (demolished) *

General Petroleum Building The General Petroleum Building, also known as the Mobil Oil Building and the Pegasus Apartments, is a highrise building in the Modern architecture style located in Downtown Los Angeles . Design and construction Walter Wurdeman & Welton Becket we ...

, Los Angeles, CA, 1949 (with Walter Wurdeman) *First National Bank of Arizona Building, Phoenix, AZ, 1950 *Welton Becket Residence, Los Angeles, CA, 1952 *

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Mall, Long Beach, CA 1953 *

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, Los Angeles, CA, 1953 *Baptist Memorial Hospital, Kansas City, MO, 1953 *

Parker Center Parker Center, initially named the Police Administration Building or Police Facilities Building, was the former headquarters of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1955 until October 2009. It was located in Downtown Los Angeles at 150 North Lo ...

(formerly the ''Police Administration Building''), Los Angeles, CA, 1955 (demolished) *

The Broadway The Broadway was a mid-level department store chain headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1896 by English-born Arthur Letts Sr., and named after what was once the city's main shopping street, the Broadway became a dominant reta ...

department store (now Walmart) at

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, CA, 1955 *

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, CA, 1955 *

Orange County, at the original

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, Anaheim, CA, 1955 (demolished) * Capitol Records Building, Los Angeles, CA, Project Designer Lou Naidorf, 1956 *

Edens Plaza Edens Plaza is a strip mall in the town of Wilmette, Illinois, Wilmette, Illinois. It was built by Carson's, Carson Pirie Scott & Co. (Carson's) in 1956, and, until 2018, was Anchor store, anchored by one of their stores. It is located on a triang ...

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, 1956 *

Park Central Mall Park Central Mall was the first shopping mall in Phoenix, Arizona. It is located in Encanto Village, on Central Avenue and Osborn Road. Today it exists as a mixed-use, business park primarily occupied by regional administrative offices for non ...

, Phoenix, AZ, 1956 * Ace Hotel Los Angeles (formerly the ''Texaco Building'') on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 1957 * Santa Monica Civic Auditorium,

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, CA, 1958 * Hotel Tryp Habana Libre (formerly the ''Habana Hilton''),

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, 1958 *

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(formerly the ''Nile Hilton''),

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, 1959 *

Sheraton Dallas Hotel The Sheraton Dallas Hotel, formerly the Adam's Mark Hotel and originally the Southland Center, is a complex of International Style skyscrapers located in the City Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas. The hotel is the largest and second ta ...

(formerly the ''Adams Mark Dallas'' and ''Southland Center''),

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, TX, 1959 *

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, Los Angeles, CA, 1959 (demolished) *

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expansion, Las Vegas, NV, 1959 (demolished) *Los Angeles Customs House and Federal Office Building, Los Angeles, CA, 1960 (with Albert C. Martin and Paul R. Williams) *

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, San Francisco, CA, 1960 *

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, Oakland, CA, 1960 *Clark County Courthouse, Las Vegas, NV, 1961 (with

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) *

Grossmont Center Grossmont Center is an outdoor shopping mall in La Mesa, California, a suburb in East County, San Diego. The mall opened in 1961 and is managed by Federal Realty Investment Trust. The anchor stores are Target, Macy's, RH Outlet, Walmart, Barne ...

, La Mesa, CA, 1961 * Christown Mall, Phoenix, AZ, 1961 *Robert McCulloch Residence, Palm Springs, CA, 1962 * Petersen Automotive Museum (formerly a Seibu and Ohrbach's department store), Los Angeles, CA, 1962 *

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, Huntington Station, NY, 1962 * Southern Cross Hotel,

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, Australia, 1962 (demolished 2003) *Interiors of the new Los Angeles International Airport, 1962 *Boeing Building (formally McCulloch Building, Hughes Space Research Center) El Segundo, CA, 1962 *

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, 1961-2 (now Hotel June) *Security First National Bank, El Segundo, CA, 1963 (demolished) *

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, Warsaw, Poland, 1963 *

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, Los Angeles, CA, 1963 * Century City (masterplan), Los Angeles, CA, 1963 * Gateway West Building, Century City, Los Angeles, CA, 1963 *

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, Phoenix, AZ, 1963 * Hartford National Bank, Hartford, CT 1963 *

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(formerly Humble Oil Building) Houston, TX, 1963 * McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, NV, 1963 *

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, Orange, CA, 1963 * Westfield Century City (formally Century City Mall) Century City, Los Angeles, CA, 1964 *

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, Bartlesville, OK, 1964 *

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, Los Angeles, CA, 1964 *North American Avaition Building, Los Angeles, 1964 * Los Angeles Music Center (officially the ''Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County''), which includes Dorthy Chandler Pavilion, Mark Taper Forum and

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, Los Angeles, CA, 1964 * Ford Pavilion, New York City, NY, 1964 (demolished) * General Electric Pavilion, New York City, NY, 1964 (demolished) *Mutual Savings and Loan Building, Pasadena, CA, 1964 *

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(officially the ''Edwin W. Pauley Pavilion''), Los Angeles, CA, 1965 *Santa Monica Shores Apartments, Santa Monica CA, 1967 *

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(now known as the ''Riverplace Tower''), Jacksonville, FL, 1967 *

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, Rochester, New York, 1967 *

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, Newport Beach, CA, 1967 (with

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) * 5900 Wilshire, Los Angeles, CA, 1968 (with William Pereira) *

La Habra Fashion Square La Habra Marketplace, formerly La Habra Fashion Square, is an open-air regional mall in La Habra, California, built by the Bullock's department store chain. Welton Becket and Associates were the architects. It was the last and largest of the "Fash ...

, La Habra, CA, 1968 (Welton Becket and Associates) * City Hall, Pomona, CA, Project Designer Marvin Taff, 1969 * Equitable Life Building, Los Angeles, 1969 *

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, San Francisco, CA, 1969 *

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, San Francisco, CA, 1969 *Park Plaza Shopping Center, Oshkosh, WI, 1969 *

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, Los Angeles, CA, 1970 * Park Plaza Mall, Oshkosh, WI, 1970, now

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a commercial business center for Oshkosh. * PNC Plaza (formerly the ''Citizens Fidelity Plaza''),

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, KY, 1971 * Beverly Wilshire Hotel expansion, Beverly Hills, CA, 1971 * Disney's Contemporary Resort,

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, FL, 1971 * Worcester Center,

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, 1971 * Chase Tower (formerly the ''Bank One Center'' and ''Valley Bank Center''),

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, AZ, Project Designer MacDonald Becket, 1972 *

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, Nashville, TN, 1972 *

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, Knoxville, TN, 1972 *

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, 1972 *

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, San Francisco, CA, 1972 * Union Bank Building, San Francisco, CA, 1972 * One PNC Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA, 1972 * Regions Center (formerly the ''AmSouth Center'', ''AmSouth-Sonat Tower'', and ''First National-Southern Natural Building''),

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, AL, 1972 * Brady Sullivan Plaza, ''(formerly Hampshire Plaza),'' Manchester, N.H., 1973 * Glendale Central Library, Glendale, CA, Project Designer, Marvin Taff, 1973 *Chase Plaza, Lexington, KY, 1973 * 100 Summer Street,

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, MA, 1974 *United Plaza, Philadelphia, PA, 1974 *

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New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans

, LA, 1976 *Intourist Hotel, Moscow, Russia, 1976 *

Reunion Tower Reunion Tower is a observation tower in Dallas, Texas and one of the city's most recognizable landmarks. Located at 300 Reunion Boulevard in the Reunion district of downtown Dallas, the tower is part of the Hyatt Regency Hotel complex and is the ...

, Dallas, TX, 1978 * Hyatt Regency Hotel, Dallas, TX, 1978 *Hyatt Regency Hotel, Washington, D. C. 1978 *Hyatt Regency Hotel, Louisville, KY, 1978 *

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, Boise, ID, 1978 * BNY Mellon Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 1980 * One Tampa City Center (formerly the GTE Building) Tampa, FL, 1981 *Stanton Tower, El Paso, TX, 1981 * Wells Fargo Plaza, San Diego, CA, 1983 *OneOK Plaza, Tulsa, OK, 1984 (with HKS, Inc.) * First Bank and Trust Tower, New Orleans, LA, 1987 *Skyview Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1987

References

External links

Oral history — Perkins quote (pg. 75)Bigfloridacountry.com: Video clip of construction of the Contemporary Resort
* MacDonald Becket papers, Welton Becket and Associates, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession No. 2012.M.43 * Welton Becket architectural drawings and photographs, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession No. 2010.M.83 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Becket, Welton Architects from Los Angeles Modernist architects Fellows of the American Institute of Architects 1902 births 1969 deaths Architects from Seattle University of Washington College of Built Environments alumni 20th-century American architects