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Modern architecture in Spokane isn’t limited to a handful of projects from the 50s. On the contrary, Modernist principals continued on in the work of a number of Spokane rms, and are alive and well even today.
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St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, 1961 Funk, Murray & Johnson
photo courtesy AMD
Spokane International Airport Terminal, 1965
Warren C. Heylman and William H. Trogdon
photo courtesy of the Joel E. Ferris Research Library
Walter A. Gropius 1883 - 1969
Technical Universities, Munich and Berlin designer, Peter Behrens, 1907-10
forms practice with Adolph Meyer, 1910 sergeant major, German Cavalry, 1914-18 head of Weimar School of Applied Arts, 1919 director, Bauhaus, 1919-28
Bauhaus 1919 - 1933
Founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany by Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus (“building school”) sought to bring together all arts – including pottery, architecture, painting, sculpture, and graphic design – into a single creative expression: the uni cation of art, craft, and technology. Gropius led the school until 1928; Hannes Meyer from 1928–30; and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 to 1933, when the school, then located in Berlin, was closed under pressure from the Nazi regime. The Bauhaus (or International) style is one of simplicity, clarity, and rationalism; its objective to establish harmony between function and design. In addition to the work of Gropius and van der Rohe, practitioners of the International Style include Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Richard Neutra, and I. M. Pei.
resumes private practice in Berlin, 1928-34 joins London-based rm Isokon, 1934 director, Harvard Graduate School of Design,
1937-52
founds The Architects Collaborative, 1945
Royal A. McClure 1917 - 2006
Thomas R. Adkison 1917 - 1986
Bruce M. Walker 1923 - 2005
Moritz Kundig 1925 -
William H. Trogdon 1925 -
Kenneth W. Brooks 1917 - 1996
designer, J. Lister Holmes (Seattle), 1939-42 BA, architecture, University of Washington, 1942 U.S. Army Air Force, 1942-44
designer, Samuel Glaser (Boston), 1945-46 MA, Architecture, Harvard University, 1946 designer, J. Lister Holmes (Seattle), 1946-47 acting head, University of Idaho Architecture
BA, architecture, University of Washington, 1941
Lieutenant (JG), U.S. Navy, 1943-46
BA, architecture, University of Washington, 1947 draftsman, E. J. Peterson, 1947 designer-draftsman, McClure & Adkison, 1947-48 designer-draftsman, Glaser & Associates
Dipl. Architekt, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, 1951
BA, architecture, University of Washington, 1950 designer-draftsman, Carl Koch & Associates (Boston) designer-draftsman, The Architects Collaborative
pre-engineering, Independence Junior College, 1937
Department, 1947-48
Arthur Wheelwright Fellowship, 1955
(Cambridge), 1950
MA, architecture, Harvard University, 1951 Julius Armory Appleton Traveling Fellowship,
University, 1952
designer-draftsman, Brooks & Walker part-time critic, architecture, Washington State
chief engineer, NW area, U.S. Engineer Department, 1940-43
The Architects
Easily Spokane’s best-known architect (and one of its
most proli c), Kirtland Cutter studied at the Art Students’ League of New York, intent on a career in illustration. It was his uncle – a Spokane banker – who convinced Cutter
to head west. Arriving in 1886, Cutter shrewdly decided
to pursue architecture instead. Both the catastrophic re that destroyed most of downtown Spokane in 1889 and the northern Idaho and eastern Washington mining booms led to a number of commissions from high-pro le and
very wealthy clients, and Cutter’s reputation quickly spread from Spokane to the Seattle area, then southern California, where he practiced from 1923 until his death sixteen
years later.
With no formal education – apart from six years as a draftsman for a number of Boston architects – Harold Whitehouse arrived in Spokane in 1907, forming
an architecture rm with George Keith a year later. Whitehouse completed the architectural program at Cornell in 1913, and, upon his return to Spokane, formed a partnership with Ernest Price that lasted fty years. The rm designed more than 2,400 churches, schools, homes, commercial of ces, and government buildings, including Farragut Naval Station and the original Spokane Coliseum. Whitehouse’s masterwork, however, is the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. Constructed from 1925 to 1957, it’s one of the few examples of Gothic architecture in the United States – and one of the nest.
Collaborative 1945 - 1995
architecture rm established in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Walter Gropius
legacy: postwar modernism, early proponent of green building, collaborative approach to design
notable works: Harvard Graduate Center, Cambridge (1949); Pan-American World Airways Building, New York (1963); AIA headquarters, Washington, D.C. (1973)
draftsman, George Groves, 1941-42 designer, draftsman, J. Lister Holmes & Associates (Seattle), 1945-47
draftsman, Ribary (Lucerne), 1951
draftsman, William Thomas (Salt Lake City), 1952-53 designer, Walter Wagner (Merced), 1953-54 draftsman, Whitehouse, Price, DeNeff & Deeble, 1955 draftsman, Brooks & Walker, 1956
designer, Kenneth W. Brooks, 1957
designer, McClure & Adkison, 1958-62
visiting assistant professor, architecture, University of
(Cambridge)
designer-draftsman, Waldron & Dietz (Seattle)
MA, architecture, Harvard University, 1952
Julius Armory Appleton Traveling Fellowship, Harvard
BS, architecture, University of Illinois (Urbana), 1940
(Boston), 1948-49
designer-draftsman, The Architects Collaborative
Plym Fellowship, University of Illinois (Urbana), 1940
Harvard University, 1951
Idaho, 1962-64
University, 1969-70
Merrill (New York), 1946-47
MA, architecture, University of Illinois
Kirtland K. Cutter 1860 - 1939
Harold C. Whitehouse 1884 - 1974
captain, U.S. Marine Corps, 1944-46 design staff, Skidmore, Owings &
(Urbana), 1948