Black Architect Wendell Campbell!

How many ways can a person

build a house? I wonder. But

Wendell Campbell is definitely

the architect expert. HE was

born April 27, 1927 in Indiana.

He graduated high school

as a National Honor Society Scholar.

He got drafted in to the US ARMy.

He got his BA in architecture anc city

planning from the Illinois Institute

Of Technology. He got a full scholarship

from Commonwealth Edison. ( those

full scholarships are so hard to

get.)

Wendell Campbell was president

of Campbel & Mascai, an architectural

and urban planning firm. He was the

Ceo of Wendell Campbell Associatess.

One of his projects was the

Dusable Museum of African AMerican

HIstory, the McCormick Place

expansion, the KIng Drive

Gateway, redevelopment plans
for the city of New Orleans

and the new Bronzeville Military

Academy. THe man stays busy.

MR. Campbell, was a founder

as well as first president of the

National Organization of Minority

Architects, founded in 1971.
He has served on so many things

like:

board of the Illinois Chapter of NOMA, etc

the Cosmopolitan Chamber of Commerce,

Mercy Hospital and Medical Center,

the Black Ensemble Theater, the Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Architects,

the Chicago Architectural Assistance Center and the South Side YMCA,etc.

Wendell Campbell is dedicated to

making the quality of affordable housing

better in metropolitian centers. That way

he is bringing 21st century technology

to today’s urban families.

my source:

http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp…e=Wendell%20Campbell

Paul Williams- Black Architect At your computer screen!

  

       Everyone needs a place to live obviously, but

not everyone is fortunate enough to live in a

royal palace. But if you can design a house,

any kind of house its a very extraordinary talent.

So I present a man who designs buildings to the t.

       Paul Williams was an African American architect who

practiced in the Los Angeles and Southern

California areas.  Williams studied at the Los

Angeles School of Art and Design , The Los

Angeles branch of the New York Beaux-Arts

Institute of Design Atelier. He then went to

the University of Southern California where

he designed residential buildings there.

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     Williams served on the first Los Angeles

Planning Commission in 1920 and became

a certified architect in 1921. Paul opened

his own office at age 28. Also, he was

known as an outstanding draughtsman.

            He got better and better with his skill of drawings that

were upside down. Architect Paul did it this way

so clients sitting across from the table could see them.

        Paul R. Williams was the 1st African American

member of the American Institute of Architects.

In 1939, he received the AIA Award of

Merit for his design of the MCA Building in

Beverly Hills.

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                Guess what else he received?

He Received the Springarn Medal from the NAACP.

1957- he was voted as an AIA Fellow.

He received honorary doctorates from Howard University, Lincoln

University, and Tuskegee Institute.

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          He did it up.

         Paul R. Williams designed 100s of private homes.

These homes were in Hollywood Hills and the Mid-Wilshire area

of Los Angeles. Dig this, his most famous homes

were made for Hollywood celebrities.

             A particular notable home of Williams design was

used for the exterior scenes of the Clampett

mansion on television’s “The Beverly Hillbillies.”

The customers for his homes included

Frank Sinatra, Lon Chaney, and more.

       So you can remember Paul R. Williams as

The man with a complex mind that produces

a complex design.. That’s the way I explain

him and his great technical work.

       Wrapping it up, I give credit to the following site for its

information:

http://www.friendsoftcc.com/4/14/Architect_Paul_R._Williams.html?_Williams