Randall Stout

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Randall Stout (born May 6, 1958 in Knoxville , Tennessee , † July 11, 2014 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American architect and university professor .

Life

Randall Stout was born to a high school teacher and a dairy wholesaler. He received his bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Tennessee in 1981 . This was followed by his master's degree from Rice University in Houston , Texas . His first job as an architect was in 1985 at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill . From 1989 he worked for the star architect Frank Gehry for over seven years . He was involved in projects such as the design of the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein or the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. With Randall Stout Architects, Inc. he finally founded his own architecture office in Los Angeles in 1997.

In parallel to his work, Stout was also active academically. He worked as an architecture critic, gave lectures at specialist conferences and taught at various institutes. He taught at the E. Fay Jones Chair of Architecture at the University of Arkansas and at the AC Martin Chair in Architecture at the University of Southern California . Most recently he was Professor of Architecture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas .

On July 11, 2014, Stout passed away at his Los Angeles home at the age of 56. After two and a half years of treatment, he succumbed to kidney cancer . He left his wife and three children together.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Randall Stout, FAIA, 1958-2014 ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Obituary on the homepage of the American Institute of Architects , Los Angeles (accessed July 21, 2014). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aialosangeles.org
  2. ↑ Joseph Giovannini: Randall Stout, Architect Tied to Nature, Dies at 56. Obituary in The New York Times, July 16, 2014 (English, accessed July 21, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Stout, Randall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Knoxville , Tennessee , United States
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 2014
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States