Aaron Green (May 4, 1917 – June 5, 2001) was an American architect and protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright.

History

Aaron Green (born May 4, 1917 in Corinth, Mississippi, died June 5, 2001) grew up in

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. He studied as an architect at

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in New York City, New York, which is where he was first introduced to the works of Frank Lloyd Wright when he asked the renowned architect to design a house for Stanley Rosenbaum. Green was invited by Wright to join Taliesin as an apprentice in the early 1940s, from which point the two maintained a close friendship. Green enlisted in the Air Force during World War II, serving as a bombardier in the Pacific theater. After the war, he moved to Los Angeles and worked as an interior designer with industrial designer

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. During this time, he married and began a family. In 1951, Green moved to San Francisco and founded Aaron G. Green Associates, Inc., an architectural practice dedicated to service-oriented design. In this organization, Green acted as Wright's West Coast representative. Green participated in forty of Wright's projects. At the time of Wright's death in 1959, the Marin County Civic Center was uncompleted, and Green saw the project through to completion In 1968, he became a member of the College of Fellows, American Institute of Architects. He taught as a lecturer and critic at Stanford University's department of architecture for fifteen years. In 2001, he became the first recipient of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation's Gold Medal.

Projects

Public Housing Marin City
in Marin City, California (1960).
450 Water Street Medical Offices
in Santa Cruz, California * American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, North Carolina (1999).
Greenwood Ridge Wine Tasting Room
in Philo, California * Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, California
Shopping Center
in Santa Clara, California
Weir Law Office
in San Jose, California

External links

Aaron G. Green Associates, Inc.SIGNATURE STYLE: Aaron Green, Getting it Wright, Bay Area architect formed his style within the 'organic architecture' of his mentor - March 5th, 2005A Taliesin Legacy: The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright's Apprentices

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Aaron 20th-century American architects 1917 births 2001 deaths People from Corinth, Mississippi Architects from Mississippi Cooper Union alumni