Julian Hill Whittlesey
Julian Hill Whittlesey (born October 27, 1905 in Greenwich , Connecticut , † May 20, 1995 in Wilton , Connecticut) was an American architect and city planner .
Life
Julian Hill Whittlesey, the second of three children of Granville Whittlesey and his wife Julia Delacour Hill Whittlesey, began studying architecture and civil engineering at Yale University after finishing school , from which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1927 and a master's degree in 1930 . During this time he also went to study abroad in Greece at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) with financial support through a scholarship . After completing his studies, he worked in the civil service and employees as part of the New Deal of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt established authority for resettlement ( Resettlement Administration ) and the Authority for public housing (US Public Housing Administration) .
In 1935, Whittlesey and Albert Mayer founded the architecture and urban planning office Mayer & Whittlesey , which designed houses and administrative buildings for military use during the Second World War . In addition, the office designed numerous larger buildings such as the Manhattan House in New York's Upper East Side as well as the Jacob M. Kaplan Building and the Albert A. List Building for The New School . Furthermore, the office created Mayer & Whittlesey urban planning designs for Kitimat in British Columbia as well as urban planning preliminary designs for the 1966 resulting plan town Chandigarh in India . In the 1950s he founded the Whittlesey, Conklin & Rossant office with William Conklin and James Rossant , which created the designs for the planned town of Reston , which was built in 1964 .
In 1971 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . After his death he was buried in the Wooster Cemetery in Danbury .
publication
- Photogrammetry for the archaeologist. With calculator programs for cartographic plotting , 1979
Web link
- Julian Hill Whittlesey (prabook.com)
- Entry in Open Library
- Julian Hill Whittlesey in the database of Find a Grave (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter W. (PDF; 852 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed November 26, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Whittlesey, Julian Hill |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American architect and city planner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greenwich , Connecticut |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 1995 |
| Place of death | Wilton , Connecticut |