\"Father of Architectural Modernism\" Paul Thiry Signed TLS Dated 1966 For Sale

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for sale the "Father of Architectural Modernism" Paul Thiry Hand Signed TLS. 

of Northwest. Thiry designed "some of

the best period buildings around the state of Washington during the 1950, 60s and

70s." Thiry was born in Nome, Alaska,

of French parents. He was a 1928 graduate of the architecture school at

the University of Washington and studied

at the École des Beaux-Arts in France traveled

in Europe and met Le Corbusier, before

returning to Seattle in 1935. He

designed his own house upon his return  but

had few commissions in the 1930s. Those he built "showed a clear

understanding of the European International Style in

his use of spare, geometric forms, clean lines, and new building

technologies." Thiry came to national attention in 1937 with a manager at Portland Cement, Frank J. Barrett. The innovative house was

published in The Modern

House in America in 1940: the garage and house formed two

rectangles, with a "smooth, undecorated exterior", its doors and

windows flush with the surface. Steel window frames were painted blue-green,

and glass-brick was used around the entry and along the walls of the partly

sunken living room. Thiry

served as supervising architect for

the Seattle World's Fair, responsible

for the overall plan and coordinating the work of contributors like John Graham Jr. (for the Space Needle), Minoru

Yamasaki, and the landscape architect Lawrence

Halprin. Thiry's own designs for the fair included the Washington

State Pavilion, now the KeyArena. Thiry has been compared to other modernists in the

Northwest such as Pietro Belluschi (1899–1994) and John Yeon (1910–1994). Thiry

is quoted as having said that "Buildings should be good neighbors." He

is credited with being "instrumental" to in Seattle. Thiry designed the Agnes

Flanagan Chapel, the Aubrey Watzek

Library, and the Biology-Psychology Building at Lewis and

Clark College in Portland, Oregon. The Flanagan chapel is

"a creatively designed 16-sided structure" with an 85-rank Casavant Frères organ and

seating for 600 people. According to the Lewis and Clark website the building

"serves as a meeting place for lectures,

musical performances, and religious services. The entry is a bridge flanked by

Northwest Coast Indian-style statues depicting the four evangelists (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) created by the native artist Chief

Lelooska.[

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