Eleanor Raymond
Eleanor Raymond (born March 24, 1887 in Cambridge , Massachusetts , † July 4, 1989 in Boston ) was an American architect who made a name for herself as an inventor in solar house construction.
Life
She studied architecture and landscape architecture at Cambridge University in Massachusetts and graduated in 1919.
After graduating, she first worked for Henry Atherton Frost. Later she opened her own architecture office.
She achieved her first major notoriety through the book Early Domestic Architecture of Pennsylvania on traditional architecture. She had her big breakthrough with the first solar house , the Dover Sun House, which was invented and built in 1948 . She was responsible for the architecture, while the heating concept came from Maria Telkes .
literature
- Eleanor Raymond: Early Domestic Architecture of Pennsylvania. Schiffer Publ., Atglen, PA 2007, ISBN 978-0-7643-2590-8 .
- Doris Cole: Eleanor Raymond, Architect . Art Alliance Press, Philadelphia 1981, ISBN 0-87982-036-5 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raymond, Eleanor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cambridge |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th July 1989 |
| Place of death | Boston |