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Contents 1 info dump 1.1 Design work in Columbus 1.2 Design Work Outside of Columbus 1.3 Education and Employment History 1.4 Awards and Honors

[edit] info dump

Harry Mohr Weese (1915-1998)

Harry Weese was an American architect. He built primarily in the modern architectural style, but integrated other styles as he felt appropriate for the project. He is most famous for having designed the Washington DC metro system.

[edit] Design work in Columbus

As the city’s fame surrounding its Modern architecture grew, so did Weese’s. Weese has had the largest number of commissions in Columbus of any nationally known architect (at least 18 built projects).

• Columbus Village - 1951
• the Boys and Girls Club (1954; demolished 1998)
• Lillian Schmitt Elementary School (1957)
• branches for Irwin Union Bank (1958 and 1961)
• Lincoln Center ice arena (1958)
• the Bartholomew County Home (1959)
• Northside Junior High School (1961)
• offices for Hamilton Cosco (1962)
• Otter Creek Clubhouse (1964)
• Cummins Engine Company Technical Center (1968)
• several private residences
• First Baptist Church (has own wikipedia entry) - Architectural critic Paul Gapp, who wrote about Columbus for the Chicago Tribune in 1976, called First Baptist Church the best of the Weese buildings in Columbus. 4 4 Paul Gapp. “Discovering Columbus.” Chicago Tribune Magazine (22 August 1976).

[edit] Design Work Outside of Columbus

• U.S. Embassy in Accra, Ghana (1958), and thus became a member the elite group of architects chosen by the U.S. State Department for such projects.
• Washington, D.C. Metro system in the 1970s, called by the New York Times, “among the greatest public works of this century.”

[edit] Education and Employment History

Weese received his Bachelor of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1938. After graduation, he received a fellowship to study city planning and architecture at Cranbrook Academy of Art. After a brief period of working for Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill in Chicago, he opened his own firm, Harry Weese and Associates in 1947.

[edit] Awards and Honors

• elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in 1961
• In the January 1966 issue of Architectural Forum, he was named one of the country’s 14 leading architects.
• In 1977 he received the Gold Medal of the Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society in Architecture and the Allied Arts.
• Harry Weese and Associates was named Firm of the Year in 1978 by the American Institute of Architects.