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Jules Gregory
Jules Gregory (August 3, 1920 – March 13, 1985) was an award-winning American architect and innovative urban planner who worked in the mid-twentieth-century modern era from Princeton, New Jersey for most of his career. Early life Jules Gregory was born in New York City on August 3, 1920, one of two sons of Julius Gregory, a noted New York architect and Mary Lovrien Price Gregory, a painter, muralist, and cartoonist. His grandfather, Eugene J. Gregory was mayor of Sacramento from 1880–1881, and his great-grandfather emigrated from France, settling in northern California in 1850 for the Gold Rush. Jules Gregory graduated from Phillips Andover Academy in 1938, and from Cornell University College of Architecture in 1943. During World War II he worked with construction in Alaska. With a Fulbright scholarship, Gregory studied architecture at the École de Beaux Arts in Paris from 1949 to 1950.http://content.aia.org/sites/default/files/2018-09/GregoryJules.pdf He married Nancy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mid-century Modern
Mid-century modern (MCM) is a movement in interior design, product design, graphic design, architecture and urban development that was present in all the world, but more popular in North America, Brazil and Europe from roughly 1945 to 1970 during the United States's post-World War II period. MCM-style decor and architecture have seen a major resurgence that began in the late 1990s and continues today. The term was used as early as the mid-1950s, and was defined as a design movement by Cara Greenberg in her 1984 book ''Mid-Century Modern: Furniture of the 1950s''. It is now recognized by scholars and museums worldwide as a significant design movement. The MCM design aesthetic is modern in style and construction, aligned with the Modernist movement of the period. It is typically characterized by clean, simple lines and honest use of materials, and generally does not include decorative embellishments. On the exterior, a MCM home is normally very wide, partial brick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ketchum, Giná & Sharp
Morris Ketchum Jr. (1904–1984) was an American architect in practice in New York City from 1938 to 1980. He was president of the American Institute of Architects for the year 1965–66. Life and career Morris Ketchum Jr. was born May 5, 1904, in New York City. He was educated at Columbia University and at Fontainebleau Schools, Fontainebleau, graduating in 1928. After his return to the United States he worked for York & Sawyer, Francis Keally and Mayers Murray & Phillip before becoming an associate in the office of Edward Durell Stone in 1936. In 1938 he established his own practice."Ketchum, Morris Jr." in ''American Architects Directory'' (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1962): 376. He was associated on some early retail projects with Victor Gruen, who was not then a licensed architect. Due to the success of these projects Ketchum offered to form a partnership with Gruen, but quickly rescinded the offer after his wife objected to him being associated with a recent immigrant. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
