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- Incorporated as Wurdeman and Becket in 1939 [...] the firm prospered and expanded during the World War II era, completing public housing and defense projects and positioning themselves well for the region's post-war construction boom.
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Incorporated as Wurdeman and Becket in 1939 [...] the firm prospered and expanded during the World War II era, completing public housing and defense projects and positioning themselves well...
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After WW II, the area served to house returning soldiers....
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The most unusual Wilshire commission undertaken by renowned architects Walter Wurdeman and Welton Becket, the Post-War House was designed as a showcase for modern living. Part serious research house, part model home, and part gimmick, it was all marketing.
After this study, Wurdeman and Becket basically designed the Late Moderne building from the inside out, shifting from the standard, vertical urban store structure to a horizontal one, and creating the model for the newly emerging idea of the suburban department store.
After Plummer’s death in 1939, the duo continued as Wurdeman and Becket. They worked largely on defense and housing projects until the end of World War II. When large-scale projects were green-lit across the country, Becket and Plummer were well positioned to receive a sizable share of the new commissions.
After Plummer died in 1939, the surviving partners renamed the firm Wurdeman and Becket. The firm was responsible for Bullock's Pasadena (1944) and several corporate headquarters. Wurdeman and Becket practiced "total design", taking responsibility for master planning, engineering, interiors, fixtures and furnishings, landscape, and graphics.
From the summer of 1948, which he spent operating a blueprint machine, MacDonald Becket progressed through the ranks of the firm. Upon his graduation from USC, he became a project manager for Welton Becket and Associates, the new firm his uncle formed after the death of Walter Wurdeman.
After studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Fontainebleau for four months and traveling Europe with fellow classmate Paul Thiry for two months, Becket moved to California. By chance he ran into former UW classmate, Walter Wurdeman in 1930.
