NCModernist Architects and Designers

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NC Architects + Designers

Triangle Area (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill)

Misc: Raleigh | Durham | Chapel Hill

Charlotte Area (Charlotte/Salisbury/Gastonia)

Misc: Charlotte

Triad Area (Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem)

Misc: Winston-Salem | High Point | Greensboro

Mountains (Cashiers/Asheville/Boone/Hickory)

Misc: Asheville | Hickory

Eastern (Nags Head/Wilmington/New Bern/Atlantic Beach/Fayetteville)

Misc: Roanoke Rapids | Fayetteville | Wilmington | Wilson

Special Profiles

The Murrays: three generations of talented contractors building of many of Wilmington's Modernist houses from the 1960s through today
T. C. Howard: architect, engineer, and creator of domes around the world

J. P. Goforth: builder of hundreds of Chapel Hill Modernist and contemporary houses

Frank Walser: builder of many Triangle Modernist houses from the 1950s to the 1970s

Matthew Nowicki: the genius behind Raleigh's internationally-known Dorton Arena who died in a 1950 plane crash over Egypt

Richard Kaydos-Daniels: the structural engineer behind many Triangle-area Modernist houses

Bryan Bell: professor and passionate national advocate for architecture for the "98% without architects"

AIA North Carolina 1947 Summer Meeting, Atlantic Beach NC. Photo by Aycock Brown. Left to Right: Burton Wilder, Archie Royal Davis, Basil Laslett, James Stenhouse, Max Abramowitz, Lesley Boney Jr., NC Governor Gregg Cherry, Raymond Weeks, William Deitrick, John Lee Thompson, Luther Lashmit, Owen Smith, Carter Williams, A. J. Maxwell, James Griffith, Thomas Cooper, Roy Marvin, Al Haskins, Walter Hook, Lindsay Gudger.

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The 1952 AIA Student Chapter, NCSU School of Design.

Back Row: Charles Sappenfield, James (Bud) Washburn, Max Isley, Robert (Bob) Miller, J. Forest (Pete) Barnwell, ?

Third Row: Glenn Buff, ?, AC Hall, Reuben Miller, Charles Moss, John Faulk, Bill Addison, Bruno Leon, Gerald Schiff

Second Row: Sam Hodges, Buddy Blue, Ralph Bansback, Harry Bates, ?, ?, Chet Parker, Elizabeth Bobbitt Lee, Donald Jackson, David Oden

Front Row: Henry Klein, ?, Fred Taylor, Gene Jones, Jack Shriver, Harry Spies, Dale Blosser, Morris Nakayama, Alvis George, Raymond Sawyer. Help us find the missing names! Email.

Members

AIA North Carolina 1952 Winter Meeting, Sedgefield Inn, Greensboro NC. Photo by Rell Clements. Standing:H. R. McLawhorn, Anthony Lord, Carter Williams, Robert Atkinson, unknown, Ross Shumaker, John Croft, Eric Flannagan, Leon McMinn, Archie Royal Davis, Thomas Brookbank, Harry Harles, Al Haskins, A. G. Odell, Carroll Abee, Eccles Everhart, unknown, Bill Correll, Russell Sorrell. Sitting: James Stenhouse, Henry Kamphoefner, Robert Clemmer, Luther Lashmit, Walter Hook, James Griffith, 4, 5, Thomas Cooper, John Ramsay, Milton Small, Basil Laslett, Burton Wilder, Louis Voorhees, William Deitrick, Ed Loewenstein, Jack Rowland.

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An AIA North Carolina 1956 Summer Meeting at Atlantic Beach NC. Photo by Walter Blue. From left to right: John Webb, Cecil D. Elliott, Robert Clemmer, Arthur C. Jenkins Jr., George Matsumoto, Archie Davis, J. A. Stenhouse, William James, AG Odell Jr., Leon McMinn, US Senator Willis Smith (who addressed the meeting), Marvin R. A. Johnson, Walter Hook, Macon Smith, L. A. O'Brien, Lindsey Gudger, Dick Rice, George Hackney, Jim Webb, Eccles Everhart, Cyrill Pfohl, Ed Loewenstein, Cameron Dudley, D. C. Abee, John Ramsay, and James Walter Griffith.