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词条 George Vernon Russell
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  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Personal life and death

  4. References

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George Vernon Russell (September 4, 1905 - March 17, 1989) was an American architect. He designed many residential properties and commercial buildings in Los Angeles, California. He also designed the masterplans and a library unit for the University of California, Riverside as well as the 1976 expansion of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Early life

George Vernon Russell was born on September 4, 1905 in San Bernardino, California.[1][2] He attended the California Institute of Technology for a year and graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.[1][2] He also attended the École des Beaux-Arts at Fontainebleau in Fontainebleau, France in 1928.[1]

Career

Russell began his career as a draughtsman in New York City.[2] With fellow architect Douglas Honnold, Russell designed the Alexander Kiam House in Los Angeles circa 1927.[3] He also became a movie set designer in Los Angeles in 1933.[2] A decade later, in 1937, Russell, Honnold and Arthur W. Hawes designed the Hollywood Reporter Building on Sunset Boulevard.[4]

During World War II, Russell designed air bases and units for the United States Army in England and Ireland.[2] After the war, he taught architecture at the University of Southern California.[2] Meanwhile, in 1946,[5] he was hired by William R. Wilkerson to design the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada; however, when Meyer Lansky acquired the building, he replaced him with his own architectural team.[6] Also in 1946, Russell and fellow architect Eduardo Jose Samaniego designed the JC Penney factory in Van Nuys.[7]

In 1950, Russell designed the Joyce Shoe Company Factory in Los Angeles.[8] He later designed the Republic Supply Co. building in San Leandro,[9] for which he won awards at the 1953 Berlin Trade Fair in Germany.[2] In 1952, he designed the Avery Adhesive Label Corporation Office Building in Monrovia, California.[10] He also designed the John J. Pike House at 6675 Whitley Terrace in Hollywood, for which he won a Merit Award in the Single Family Residence Category from the American Institute of Architects in 1954.[11] A few years later, he designed the Cate School in Carpinteria, for which he won the first prize from the Church Architectural Guild of America in 1958.[2]

Russell designed the master plans of the University of California, Riverside,[2] where he also designed the Library Unit II in 1963.[12] By 1976, he designed a three-story, 56,000-square-foot expansion of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.[2]

Russell became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and served as the president of its Southern California chapter in 1958.[1][2]

Personal life and death

Russell was married in 1942, and he had two children.[1] They lived in Pasadena, California.[2] He died on March 17, 1989.[1][2]

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=George Vernon Russell (Architect)|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/234/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}
2. ^10 11 12 {{cite news|title=G. V. Russell; Award Winner in Architecture|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1989-03-28/news/mn-690_1_colin-russell|accessdate=January 14, 2017|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=March 28, 1989}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=Kiam, Alexander, House, Los Angeles, CA|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/3838/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Hollywood Reporter Building|url=https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/hollywood-reporter-building|website=Los Angeles Conservancy|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=George Vernon Russell|url=https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/archdb2/index.php/people/view/132|website=Special Collections University Libraries|publisher=University of Nevada, Las Vegas|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}
6. ^{{cite web|title=Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, NV|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/13204/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}
7. ^{{cite web|title=Penney, J.C., Company, Incorporated, Department Store, Van Nuys, CA (1946)|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/3861/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}
8. ^{{cite web|title=Joyce Shoe Company Factory, Pasadena|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/11003/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}
9. ^{{cite web|title=Republic Supply Company Office and Plant, San Leandro, CA|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/11004/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}
10. ^{{cite web|title=Avery Adhesive Label Corporation, Office Building, Los Angeles, CA (1952)|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/10386/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}
11. ^{{cite web|title=Pike, John J., House, Los Angeles, CA (1952)|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/11427/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}
12. ^{{cite web|title=Rivera Library & Walkway|url=http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/uchistory/archives_exhibits/campus_planning/atkinson_archive/ucr/rivera3.html|website=University of California History|publisher=University of California, Berkeley|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}
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7 : 1905 births|1989 deaths|People from San Bernardino, California|People from Pasadena, California|Architects from Los Angeles|20th-century American architects|University of Southern California faculty

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