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The Architecture of
Harry Weese
Robert Bruegmann Art History, Architecture, Urban Planning
University of Illinois at Chicago
National Building Museum
Washington
9 March 2011
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1933 MIT “Boston Tech”
141 Kenilworth Avenue, Kenilworth
Born 1915
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Summer 1937
Trip to Europe
Gunnar Asplund
Law Courts Extension Gothenburg,
1937
Sven Markelius
Helsingborg, Konserthuset 1932
Alvar Aalto, Finnish Pavilion, 1937 Fair, Paris
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Pritchard House, 1938
Shack Tamarack 1936
Glen Lake Michigan
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1938-39
MIT final year
Thesis: Prototypes for
Roadside Resaturants
I. M. Pei
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1939-40
Cranbrook
Eliel Saarinen
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Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen
Ralph
Rapson
Ben
Baldwin
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Harry Weese with Maya Grotell
Charger
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Ben Baldwin, Harry Weese, Wallace Mitchell with looms at Cranbrook
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1940 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill SOM (Gordon Bunshaft)
Great Lakes Naval Base Hostess Building,
North Chicago, IL 1942
1939-40 Bemis Foundation, MIT
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1940 MoMA Organic Design
Competition (with Ben Baldwin)
Aalto tea cart
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Red House, Barrington
1941-42 Weese and Baldwin Architects
Evanston, Hall and Harker Houses
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1941-45
US Navy
USS Charles F. Hughes
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Weese and Mies
Moholy Nagy and Institute of Design
Chicago after WWII
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1946 SOM
1947 Baldwin Kingrey opens
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James Prestini wood
Alvar
Aalto
Artek
Furniture
Weese bookshelf
Henry Bertoia Jewelry
Venini Glass
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1947 Harry Weese
architect and engineer
1952
Chicago AIA Urban Projects
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Lillian Schmitt
School, 1957
Cummins Masterplan Irwin Bank Purity Supermarkets
Northside School 1961
Columbus Village starts 1951
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1957
US embassy,
Accra, Ghana
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1957 Weese House and Studio
Barrington IL
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Hyde Park Survey 1954
Hyde Park A&B
With Webb and Knapp
I. M. Pei
1956-63
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Shopping Center
Harper Court
54th Street Cooperative Homes
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Southwest Washington
(with Webb & Knapp
and I. M. Pei)
c. 1954-57
Zeckendorf
Proposal
c. 1955
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Arena Stage, Washington DC
(Fichandler Stage) 1960-62
Kreeger Theater 1968-72
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Remodeling
Bing Thom, Architects
2010
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Channel Square
Southwest Washington
1969
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Fort Lincoln
1968-71
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Moshe Safdie
Paul Rudolph
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1964 Tangeman House
Muskoka Lakes, Ontario
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1965 First Baptist Church, Columbus, IN
Hedrich
Blessing
Photo
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1967
Auditorium Theater Restoration
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1969
Shadowcliff
Ben Heineman
Ellison Bay, WI
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1970
Time Life Building
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1976- Opening of Washington DC Metro
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Signing Initial Contract March 1966
From Left: John Rannells, Owen Malone
John Quenstedt, Harry Weese
Stanley Allan, Robert Reynolds
Harry Weese at Press conference
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Sketch section July 6, 1966
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Hideo
Sasaki
Theodore
Roszak
Gordon
Bunshaft Burnham
Kelly
William
Walton Aline
Saarinen
John Carl
Warnecke
The Fine Arts Commission in 1967
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WMATA- Larry Levine Photo
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1978 AIA Architecture Firm Award
1976 Departure of Jack Hartray
1977 Departure of Ben Weese
1979
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Inland Steel
SOM
Daley Center
CF Murphy et al
Time Life Metropolitan
Correctional
Center
1976
two exhibitions
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Bertrand Goldberg
Marina City
SOM (Walter Netsch)
U of Illinois at Chicago Circle
First Baptist Church,
Columbus
Howard van Doren Shaw
Donnelly House, Lake Forest
Norfolk VA John Knox Home
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1978 Marriott Hotel
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1981 Federal Triangle Masterplan
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Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Competition 1981
Maya Lin
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1977 Terman Hall Stanford University
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1980
Union Underwear
Bowling Green, KY
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Embassy Housing
Tokyo
1979-82
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Union Station Washington, 1984-88
Restoration architect
With Benjamin Thompson & Assoc.
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Late 1970s Printer’s Row
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Preserving
The Loop
Elevated late 1970s
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1970s through early 80s
schemes for 1992 World’s Fair
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1991 Harry Weese sells firm to senior employees, becomes Harry Weese Associates
1998 Harry Weese dies
2000 Gensler purchases HWA
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Oak Park Village Hall, 1975
US Embassy Housing,
Tokyo, 1982
Metropolitan Correctional
Center, 1981
Miami-Dade County Transit, 1984 Actors Theatre,
Louisville, 1972
Latin School, 1969
Crown Center Hotel,
Kansas City, 1973
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Civic Center, Middletown, OH New Town, Riyahd
State Bank of Clearing
55 W. Chestnut 345 Fullerton Jens Jensen School
Pierce Hall U. Of Chicago
Illinois Institute for
Visually Handicapped Zaiser House, Naples FL
Drake University, Des Moines IA Lake Michigan College
Benton Harbor MI
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Bertrand Goldberg 1913-1997
North Pole Demountable Ice Cream
Stand
Marina City
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Walter Netsch 1920-2008
University of Illinois at Chicago
US Air Force Academy
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Eero Saarinen, 1910-61
Dulles Airport, Chantilly VA, 1962
General Motors Technical Center,
Warren, MI, 1956
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Ralph Rapson 1914-2008
Rapson, Guthrie Theatre, 1963
Swedish Embassy 1954
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Edward Larrabee Barnes 1915-2004
Barnes, Haystack Mountain School,
Deer Island, ME,1962
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1971
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I. M. Pei 1917-
National Gallery East Wing, 1971
Courthouse Square, Denver 1960
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Louis Kahn 1901-1974
Dhaka, National Parliament of Bangladesh
1962
Richards Medical Center,
U. Of Pennsylvania, 1957
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Gordon Bunshaft 1909-1990
Yale, Beineke Library, 1965
Lever House, 1952
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Paul Rudolph 1918-1997
New Haven, Yale, A&A Building, 1963
Walker Guest House, Sanibel
Island FL 1952
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1981 Brown Foreman Louisville KY
Hedrich
Blessing
Photos
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Design for House near Barrington, 1930
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Journey Home: Aspen
Poster by Herbert Bayer
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Harry Callahan Photo
1951 Loomis Courts (With Loewenberg & Loewenberg)
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Frank Lloyd Wright,
Hiram Baldwin House,
Kenilworth, 1905
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Andrew Rebori
Keck Brothers
Century of Progress Exposition, 1933-34
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1953-58
Hyde Park A&B
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Hedrich
Blessing
Photo
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Anchorage Library
Competition, 1981
Super Tall Buildings
1982
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Wolfe Point Landings starts 1977
River Cottages, 1988
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Beloit College
Science Building (Chamberlin Hall)
First Baptist Church
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Sawyer Library, Williams College,
Williamstown, MA
South Lower Campus
University of Wisconsin Madison, �WI
Given Institute, Aspen, CO
Terman Engineering, Stanford, CA
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1957 Ben Weese enters office
1960
Mrs. Harry E. Weese
with children
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141 Kenilworth Avenue, Kenilworth
Harry-1915 Jane-1916 John-1919 Sue-1923 Ben-1929
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1933 MIT “Boston Tech”
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Summer 1937
Trip to Europe
Gunnar Asplund
Law Courts Extension Gothenburg,
1937
Sven Markelius
Helsingborg, Konserthuset 1932
Alvar Aalto, Finnish Pavilion, 1937 Fair, Paris
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1936 Shack Tamarack
Glen Lake MI
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Pritchard House 1938
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Columbus Indiana and J. Irwin Miller
J. Irwin Miller in 1961
Eliel Saarinen
First Christian Church,