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ID: 500055215
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500055215

 

Record Type: Person
Genther, Charles (American architect, engineer, city planner and professor, 1907-1987)

Note: Charles Genther received his Bachelor of Science degree in architectural engineering from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, in 1939. He pursued graduate studies in 1939-1940 and 1942-1943 at the Armour Institute of Technology (later the Illinois Institute of Technology), Chicago, Illinois, under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Ludwig Hilberseimer. He worked with Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill and with Holabird & Root, where he met Wilbur Binford. Genther, Binford, John Kausal and William Cobb founded Pace Associates in January or February 1946. He developed town plans during the 1950s for mining companies in Minnesota and Michigan, and designed restaurant service areas and related facilities for the Illinois State Toll Highway Commission. From 1966, Genther taught architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Names:
Genther, Charles (preferred,V,index)
Charles Genther (V,display)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)

Roles:
architect (preferred)
urban planner
engineer
professor

Gender: male

Events:
active:   Chicago (Cook county, Illinois, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
founder of ....  Pace Associates  in 1946
..................  (American architectural firm, active Chicago, Illinois, United States, 1949-1957) [500033105]
partner of ....  Binford, Wilbur  
..................  (American architect, active mid-20th century) [500055216]
partner of ....  Cobb, William  
..................  (American architect, active mid-20th century) [500055218]
partner of ....  Kausal, John  
..................  (American architect, active mid-20th century) [500055217]
student of ....  Rohe, Mies van der  
..................  (German architect, 1886-1969, active in the United States) [500006293]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Genther, Charles (I)

Biographies:
(American architect, engineer, city planner and professor, 1907-1987) ..... [CCA Preferred]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Charles Genther ........ [CCA]
................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Genther, Charles ........ [CCA Preferred]
..................................  Blanks, Glossary, Chicago Architecture and Design (1993) 463, 468

Subject: ........ [CCA]
....................  Blanks, Glossary, Chicago Architecture and Design (1993) 463, 468
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
 
Note:
English .......... [CCA]
.......... Blanks, Glossary, Chicago Architecture and Design (1993) 463, 468
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