Aaron Green (May 4, 1917 – June 5, 2001) was an American

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and protégé of

Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed List of Frank Lloyd Wright works, more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key ...

History

Aaron Green (born May 4, 1917 in

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, died June 5, 2001) grew up in

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. He studied as an architect at

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, which is where he was first introduced to the works of

when he asked the renowned architect to design a house for Stanley Rosenbaum. Green was invited by Wright to join

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as an apprentice in the early 1940s, from which point the two maintained a close friendship. Green enlisted in the

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during

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, serving as a bombardier in the Pacific theater. After the war, he moved to

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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

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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,

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. 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

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(1960). *550 Water Street Medical Offices in

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* American Hebrew Academy in

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(1999). * Greenwood Ridge Wine Tasting Room in

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* Marin County Civic Center in

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* Shopping Center in

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* Weir Law Office in

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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