Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953) Architect

Erich Mendelsohn was an architect born in Germany. He was a representative of the expressionist architecture. He realized many cinemas, shops and factories. In 1935 he went to Palestine and realized important buildings. In 1938 he moved to England and became English citizen. At the beginning of World War II, he settled in the United States where he built a number of Synagogues and Churches.

Main achievements
Einstein Tower observatory in Potsdam (1921).
Spinning in Luckenwalde (1921).
Hebrew University in Palestine.
Medical Center in Palestine.
De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, along with Chermayeff.
Maimonides Hospital in San Francisco.
Park Synagogue in Cleveland.

Carl Koch (1912-1998) Architect

Carl Koch was an American architect. He works temporarily with Edward D. Stone and with the office of Gropius and Breuer. Together with Eward Stone, he won the first prize for a competition of the Pittsburgh Glass Manufactory in 1939.

Main achievements
Group of 8 houses on Snake Hill in Belmont, Massachusetts (1940-1942). The houses were integrated in a special way in the landscape.
Acorn House (1948).
Staff accommodation for the US Embassy in Belgrade (1956).
The houses Techcrete Academy (1962).
Eliot House at Mount Holyoke College (1962).
Lewis Wharf Condominiums (1972-1973), residential renovation of a Boston Waterfront granite warehouse that was built in 1840 on the site of Paul Revere's silversmith shop and John Hancock's warehouses.

Louis Kahn (1901-1974) Architect

Parliament of Bangladesh

Louis Kahn was an American architect with a Russian descent. He worked from 1941 with George Howe. From 1942 he also worked with Stonorow called Howe Stonorow and Kahn. Khan himself has had a major influence on the international architecture. Most of his designs have a ruin-like and monolithic appearance. His buildings are often quite monumental because many of the buildings should reinforce an established value as sick houses, parliament buildings and universities. The structures of his buildings are often very clearly visible.

Main achievements
Carver Court, along with George Howe and Stonorow.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (1951).
Trenton Bathhouse in New Jersey (1954).
Richards Medical Research Laboratories at the Univeristeit of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (1957).
Salk Institute in La Jolla, Canada (1959).
Esherick House in Philadelphia (1959).
First Unitarian Church of Rochester (1959).
Norman Fisher House Hatboro, Pennsylvania (1960).
Parliament building of Bangladesh (1962).
Institute of Public Administration (IPA) in Ireland (1963).
Phillips Exeter Academy Library in New Hampshire (1967).
Kimbell Art Museum in Texas (1967).
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (1969).

Ely Jacques Kahn (1884-1972) Architect

Ely Kahn was an American architect. He graduated in 1911 in Paris and worked in New York, where he built many buildings after World War I. Here he often applied the cube shape and octagonal shape. After 1940, Ely Kahn worked togheter with Robert Allan Jacobs.

Main achievements
Municipal asphalt plant in New York, along with Robert Allan Jacobs (1944).

Albert Kahn (1869-1942) Architect

Albert Kahn was an architect born in Germany who moved to America and worked there since 1881. He built mainly factories. As he worked his First Five Year Plan in Russia (from 1928 untill 1931).

Main achievements
Dodge factory in Detroit (1938).
The 'Lincoln Mercury division of the Ford Motor Cy in St. Louis.
Building for General Motors Cy in Ohio.

Richard Morris Hunt (1828-1895) Architect

Richard Hunt was an English architect but worked mainly in France. And so his best designs were influenced by the late French Gothic and early Renaissance. He designed numerous houses for famous Americans.

Main achievements
Tribune Building in New York, here he used a tower building design for the first time.
Metropolitan Museum of Art.

George Howe (1886-1955) Architect

George Howe was an American architect. He worked with William Lescaze from 1929-1933 and since 1941 with Stonorov and Khan. Besides megaprojects he built schools and ordinary homes.

Main achievements
Carver Court, together with Stonorov and Khan (1944).
Settlement for hundreds of African families.
Philadelphia Saving Fund Society Building, along with William Lescaze (1932).
Thomas House (1939).
Mount Desert Island building (1939).
Maine building (1939).

Raymond M. Hood (1881-1934) Architect

Raymond Hood was an American architect. He worked from 1931 to 1934 along with J.A. Fouilhoux. Raymond was one of the architects who worked on the Rockefeller Center.

Main achievements
Rockefeller Center, as one of the many architects.
American Radiator Building in New York.

Wallace Kirkman Harrison (1895-1981) Architect

Wallace Harrison was an American architect. He work from 1935 to 1941 with J. André Fouilhoux. He was one of the contributors to the Rockefeller Center (1932-1940) and chief architect of the building of the United Nations in New York.

Main buildings
Building for the United Nations in New York (1947-1950).

Harwell Hamilton Harris (1903-1990) Architect

Harwell Harris was an American architect. He worked together with R. J. Neutra. From 1931 to 1933, Harwell secretary of the American group of CIAM (Les Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne).

Important works
House Fellowship Park in Los Angeles (1935).

Philip Lippincott Goodwin (1885) Architect

Philip Goodwin was an American architect. Together with many other architects, he got wany priced for some contests.

Main buildings
The Museum of Modern Art in New York, together with Ed Stone (1939).

Jacques André Fouilhoux (1879-1945) architect

Jacques André Fouilhoux is an architect born in Paris that later moved to America. He collaborated with Albert Kahn. In America, he worked with Hood, N. Y. Reinhard and Hofmeister, Corbett, Harrison and MacMurray.

Main achievements
Rockefeller Center in New York, skyscrapers including the series 'Holland House' (1932-1940).

Vernon DeMars (1908-2005) Architect

Vernon DeMars was an American architect. He often collaborates with Burton D. Cairns. Along with several other architects, he realized the Woodville settlement in Califorinië. This is a settlement that count apartments and houses for seasonal workers.

Gardner A. Daily (1895) Architect

Garnder Daily was an American architect.

Main achievements
Houses in California.
Cadet School in San Mateo, California (1942).
Royal Hawaiian Hotel, a luxury hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Nicolas Cirino (1907) Architect

Nicolas Cirino is an architect born in Italy and emigrated in 1930 to America. He was one of the co-workers of the 'Woodville' settlement in California. This settlement was intended for itinerant farm workers, but also for permanent farmers. Besides ordinary houses the Woodville settlement was also provided with a laundry, a bathhouse, a clinic, a day care, schools and more. Although the settlement was set in an unfavorable terrain, the more it was a practical construction with an aesthetic appearance.

Best works
Wooville in California

Welton David Beckhet (1902) Architect

Welton David Beckhet is a famous American architect.

His main designs
Prudential Life Insurance Company (Los Angeles, 1940).
Mobile Oil Company (Los Angeles, 1940).
Hotels, theaters, museums and so on, on behalf of the Japanese government to include tourism in Tokyo, in 1950.

Herbert L. Beckwith (1903) Architect

Herbert L. Beckwith is an American architect.

In corporate with Lawrence B. Anderson he designed the construction of a swimming pool in Cambridge, Mass in 1940. The pool is distinguished by its practical construction, its location and beautiful interior finishes.

Pietro Belluschi (1899) Architect

Pietro Belluschi is an architect born in Italy and moved to America in 1923. More specifically, in Portland, Oregon. He often collaborated with A. E. Doyle. He realized many homes, but some works are still cacthing the eye.

Important works
A mall in Vancouver (1942).
The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco.
The building of the Equiable Life Insurance Cy in Portland.
A building for the First National Bank of Portland in Salem.
The Oregonian Building.
Commonwealth Building in Portland.

Abrams D. A.

This was an American professor, researcher and director of the research laboratory for building in Chicago. He performed pioneering work in the field of compositions for mortar. He found the concepts fineness modulus and water-cement ratio.

He also invented the 'cone of Abrams' from which you can determine how tightly or how tight the freshly made concrete mix is right. In other words, with this conical surface, he was able to measure the plasticity of the concrete mix.

Further he did screening tests and other proofs.

Among the fineness modulus means
All mineral mixtures with a similar modulus of fineness require the same amount of mixing water in order to obtain a certain plasticity (fluidity), if the cement content per cubic meter of concrete is the same and the aggregates are similar.

By adding additives, with a certain quantity of cement to be incorporated, a mixture can be found with such a fineness modulus, the less water that is required to achieve a certain degree of plasticity than any other blend. This mixture has then the ideal fineness modulus.

Burton Donald Cairns (1909-1939) architect

Burton Cairns is an American architect born in San Mateo Country. Burton graduated at the University of California, Berkeley. Then he went to work in various architectural offices. He was also Chief of Architecture and Engineering for the South Western States, Resettlement Adminstration (now knows as the Farm Security Administration) in San Francisco from (1933-1935).

Main achievements
Settlement of 'The Agricultural Workers community at Chandler' in Arizona (1936-1937) along with Vernon DeMars. This is a settlement for migrating workers, that require housing during the harvest time. It's designed for them as a simple but effective and hygienic sojourn. They call this kind buildings, bureaucratic architecture.

Settlement 'Yuba City in California' (1937) along with Vernon DeMars. A settlement with the same principle as that of 'Chandler '.

sources:
American Architecture: 1860-1976
digital.lib.washington.edu