Gordon Walker's (b. 1939) highly unusual design process has yielded an extensive architecture of extraordinary quality, he is a unique figure in the American architectural movement and in the history of the Pacific Northwest. This personal and professional biography contributes both to our understanding of the breadth of viable design processes and, in a broader sense, to regional and architectural history.
Gordon Walker is a 1962 graduate of ...
Introduces the man and his work, discussing relevant aspects of Suyama's life, the influences that have shaped his beliefs, and, in layman's terminology, twenty of his built and unbuilt projects that illuminate the development of his remarkable art and craft
Grant Hildebrand is professor emeritus of architecture and art history at the University of Washington. He is the author of several books on architecture, including Origins of Architectural Pleasure, for which in 2000 he received the Washington Governor's Writers Award for work of literary merit and lasting value. In 2005, with co-author T. William Booth, he was short-listed for the award for A Thriving Modernism: The Houses of Wendell Lovett ...
