Harley Ellis Devereaux

Harley Ellis Devereaux is an architecture and engineering firm based in Southfield, Michigan with offices in Southfield, Chicago, Illinois, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1908 by architects Alvin E. Harley and Norman S. Atcheson.

Activities

As of 2008, Harley Ellis Devereaux is one of the 150 largest design firms in the United States,^[2] employing more than 250 professionals including programmers; architects; civil, mechanical, electrical, and structural engineers; landscape architects; interior designers; graphics, signage, and equipment designers; and construction specialists. The firm specializes in multiple practices including health care, life enhancement, science and technology, corporate and commercial, mixed use and residential, K-12 schools, higher education, civic and cultural and industrial and automotive.

Harley Ellis Devereaux buildings

Rackham Memorial Education Building (1941) in Detroit's Cultural Center Historic District by Harley, Ellington and Day.

• Horace Rackham Education Memorial Building, Detroit, 1941.
• City-County Building Coleman A. Young Municipal Center, Detroit, 1950 ^[3]
• U.S. State Department Building, Washington, D.C., 1960^[1]
• Union Bank Office Tower, San Jose, California, 1976
• University of Michigan Chemical Sciences Building, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1988
• General Motors Truck Product Center, Pontiac, Michigan, 1996
• VA Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1998
• Wentworth Commons, Chicago, 2005
• Millennium Park Program Management, Chicago, 2006
• Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center, Los Angeles, 2007

Harley Ellis Devereaux has also designed most of the Archdiocese of Detroit buildings that have been built since 1970.

Office locations

• Southfield, Michigan
• Chicago, Illinois
• Los Angeles, California
• San Diego, California
• San Francisco, California

History of firm names

Since its inception in 1908, the firm has existed as:

• Harley and Atcheson (1908–1912)
• Alvin E. Harley, Architect (1912–1932)
• Harley and Ellington (1933–1942)
• Harley, Ellington and Day (1943–1960)
• Harley, Ellington, Cowin and Stirton (1961–1968)
• Harley Ellington Associates (1969–1972)
• Harley Ellington Pierce Yee Associates (1973–1994)
• Harley Ellington Design (1995–1999)
• HarleyEllis (2000–2005)
• Harley Ellis Devereaux (2006–Present)

Awards

• Chicago’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies To Work For, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 ^{[4] [5][6][7] [8]}
• ZweigWhite, Hot Firm List, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007^[9]
• Top Ten Green Projects, AIA COTE, Lake View Terrace Library, 2004^[10]
• Metropolitan Detroit 101 Best and Brightest Companies To Work For, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 ^[11]
• AIA Michigan Firm of the Year, 2000^[12]
• 2012 The Engineering Society of Detroit - Construction & Design Award for Wayne State University Chemistry Building Addition and Renovation - Detroit, Michigan
• 2012 Design-Build Institute of America Western Pacific Region Excellence Award - Miramar College Public Safety Building - San Diego, California
• 2012 American Public Works Association (APWA) Project of the Year - Miramar College Public Safety Building - San Diego, California
• 2011 Association of Licensed Architects Design Award of Merit - Chrysler Corporation Phoenix Engine Plant Manufacturing and Office Building - Trenton, Michigan
• 2011 Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI)Project of Distinction Award - David Saperstein Middle School - Los Angeles, California
• 2011 Michigan American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Merit Award Chapter Awards Program - A. Alfred Taubman Student Services Center Quadrangle

References

External links

• Harley Ellis Devereaux Corporate Site
• Harley Ellis Devereaux Centennial Site
• Duggan, Daniel. (2008, February 18). "", Crain's Detroit Business, February 18, 2008.

Architects and artisans of metropolitan Detroit Resident architects Charles N. Agree Gunnar Birkerts Marcus Burrowes Henry T. Brush C. Howard Crane Peter J. Diederichs Robert O. Derrick John M. Donaldson Joseph N. French Wallace Frost Yousif Ghafari Alvin E. Harley William E. Higginbotham Eric J. Hill John C. Haro Eugene C. Hopkins Albert Kahn Julius Kahn Louis Kamper William E. Kapp William Kessler Hugh T. Keyes Gordon W. Lloyd William G. Malcomson George D. Mason S. Kenneth Neumann Mark Nickita Harry J. Rill Gino Rossetti Matthew L. Rossetti Wirt C. Rowland Victor Saroki William Scott Smith, Hinchman & Grylls Spier & Rohns Leonard B. Willeke Minoru Yamasaki Visiting architects Henry Bacon John Burgee Daniel Burnham Ralph Adams Cram Paul Cret Henry Engelbert Cass Gilbert Bertram Goodhue Michael Graves Victor Gruen Richard W. Jennings Jens Jensen Alfredas Kulpa-Kulpavičius Philip Johnson Charles Luckman McKim, Mead & White Frederick Olmsted Charles A. Platt John C. Portman, Jr. Henry Hobson Richardson Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Horace Trumbauer Whitney Warren Charles Wetmore Stanford White Frank Lloyd Wright Resident sculptors Marshall Fredericks Julius Melchers Carl Milles Isamu Noguchi Corrado Parducci Carlo Romanelli Edward Wagner Visiting sculptors Herbert Adams Donald De Lue Avard Fairbanks Daniel Chester French Robert Graham Lee Lawrie Giacomo Manzù J. Massey Rhind Ulysses Ricci Augusto Rivalta Randolph Rogers Raffaello Romanelli Adolph Alexander Weinman Resident ceramists Horace Caulkins Diana Pancioli Mary Chase Perry Stratton Photographers Michelle Andonian Curt Clayton Don Coles Carlos Diaz Sean Doerr Marge Beaver Roy Feldman Dale Fisher Jeff Garland Steve Hall Balthazar Korab Dave Krieger Laszlo Regos Tony Soluri William Zbaren See also Architecture of metropolitan Detroit