Moderate Modernist: The Life and Work of Architect Ellis F. Lawrence
March 15, 2014 |
Ellis Fuller Lawrence (1879-1946) was born in Massachusetts and received his architectural training at MIT in the classical Beaux Arts tradition. He came to Portland in 1906 and designed over 500 buildings in his nearly forty-year career. Equally important to his private practice was his advocacy for the profession of architecture and his role in advancing architectural education.
The Ellis Lawrence House (1906) in Irvington is considered one of the first Arts and Crafts residences in Portland. However, Lawrence’s architectural palette was quite eclectic, ranging from the formal and historical to the picturesque and modern. Many of his designs display a surprising juxtaposition of the traditional and modern, especially his institutional buildings. Two of his best known buildings in Portland are the Albina Branch Library (1912)and the Riverview Cemetery Caretaker's House (1914).
But perhaps Lawrence’s most significant contribution to regional architecture was as founder and first dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon. During his lengthy tenure at the U of O, Lawrence designed more than two dozen campus buildings while also helping to mentor a new generation of architects in the less formalized approach of the Modern movement. We hope you’ll join us as architectural historian, AHC Education Committee member, and walking tour docent Eric Wheeler takes us on a whirlwind exploration of the career of one of Oregon’s first modernist architects.
Time: 10am - 11:30am
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Architectural Heritage Center / Bosco-Milligan Foundation |
701 SE Grand Ave
Portland, OR 97214 |
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