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John Ogden Merrill FAIA (10 August 1896 – 13 June 1975) was an American architect and structural engineer. He was chiefly responsible for the design [1] and construction of the United States Air Force Academy campus [2] and for the development of Oak Ridge, Tennessee where the atomic bomb was developed.
John O.Merrill . 10 August 1896 Born in St. Paul, Minnesota; 1914–16 Attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison; 1919–21 studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; 1921 bachelor’s degree in architecture;
John Ogden Merrill FAIA (10 August 1896 – 13 June 1975) was an American architect and structural engineer. He was chiefly responsible for the design and construction of the United States Air Force Academy campus and for the development of Oak Ridge, Tennessee where the atomic bomb was developed.
- The Lovestruck Traveler
- The Chicago World’S Fair
- A Complementary Pair
- A Brotherly Oath
- Rough Start
- New York, “Skid’S Boys,” and The Power Broker
- The Second World’S Fair
- Bunshaft The Designer
- Enter John O. Merrill
- Good Fortune
In 1926, after he’d been working for about eight years, and with the help of his mentor William Emerson, the first dean of the MIT School of Architecture, Skid won the Rotch Traveling Fellowship. With two years of unrestricted travel at his disposal, the 29-year-old went off to Paris. While he was in Europe, Raymond Hood, the acting Head of the Des...
Newly married and back in the U.S., Skid took Raymond Hood up on his offer and joined the Design Board for the Chicago World’s Fair as a junior designer. All was well until one day, General Rufus Dawes, the overseer of the Expo, fired all of the architects on staff. Hood also decided to step down as head of the Design Board, leaving an inexperience...
Skidmore and Owings each had distinct personalities that, in terms of business, complemented the other. With irresistible charm and an uncanny ability “to win over even sworn enemies (Adams 19),” Nat was the perfect candidate for organizing and entertaining clients. During the Expo, he was involved in constructing the buildings and managing special...
When A Century of Progressended in 1934, Nat and Skid went their separate ways. Owings and his wife, Emily Hunting Otis (whom he had met in 1931 while in Chicago), went to Vancouver and then traveled around the world (Adams 20). Skid and Eloise settled at home and in that same year welcomed their first child, Louis Jr. After about a year, in 1935, ...
Like most young start-ups, the first year for Skidmore & Owings was rough. The economy was still getting back its bearings, and even the big firms in Chicago were struggling to get by; they needed to find work. The logical first step was reaching out to the network they had built during A Century of Progress. Soon, they connected with Rufus Dawes, ...
Soon, Owings reconnected with another colleague from A Century of Progress — Raymond Hood. He was given the opportunity to design a product display in Hood’s Radiator Buildingin New York. The only caveat was that his firm needed to have a New York office and a resident partner (pg 21). There was no New York location or resident-partner, but Owings ...
The New York World’s Fair gave the duo a second opportunity at expo design and further elevated the power and network they had already begun to amass. Skid became a consultant to the general manager and chief engineer of the fair and soon revisited talks with the business leaders he had worked with years prior. New patrons who wanted to work with h...
Gordon Bunshaft was a gifted designer and far surpassed everyone at Skidmore & Owings. For forty-two years he reigned as design leader and eventually won the Pritzker Prize. Like Skidmore, he was an MIT alum, having received his B.Arch in 1933 and his M.Arch in 1935. He was also awarded the Rotch Traveling Fellowship, receiving the same two years u...
Like Skidmore, John Merrill also served in WWI, but as a Captain with the Coast Artillery (Times). He studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsinand promptly graduated into the war in 1917. After his release from the military in 1919, he went to MIT to study architecture, receiving his degree in 1921. His eventual invitation to join Sk...
If one thing is certain in this origin story, it is the role of chance and the tremendous opportunity it brought the founders. Almost every factor in Skidmore and Owings’ slow rise to prominence happened by chance. Skid receiving the Rotch Fellowship and traveling to Europe is probably the greatest of all. It was there that he connected with Raymon...
John Ogden Merrill Sr. (10 August 1896 – 13 June 1975) was an American architect and structural engineer. He was responsible for the design [1] and construction of the United States Air Force Academy campus [2] and for the development of Oak Ridge, Tennessee where the atomic bomb was developed.
John Ogden Merrill Sr. (1896 – June 13, 1975) was an American architect and structural engineer. He was chiefly responsible for the design and construction of the United States Air Force Academy campus and for the development of Oak Ridge, Tennessee where the atomic bomb was developed.
Dec 11, 2023 · Who was John O. Merrill? John Ogden Merrill Sr. was an American architect and structural engineer. He was chiefly responsible for the design and construction of the United States Air Force Academy campus and for the development of Oak Ridge, Tennessee where the atomic bomb was developed.
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