Gordon Walker by Grant Hildebrand

Gordon Walker by Grant Hildebrand

Gordon Walker’s (b. 1939) highly unusual design process has yielded an extensive architecture of extraordinary quality; he is a unique figure in the American architectural movement and in the history of the Pacific Northwest. This personal and professional biography contributes both to our understanding of the breadth of viable design processes and, in a broader sense, to regional and architectural history. Gordon Walker is a 1962 graduate of the University of Idaho. He was co-founder of Olson Walker Architects (now Olson Kundig), worked with NBBJ in Seattle and San Francisco, and practiced in his own name for twelve years before joining Mithun Architects as a consulting principal. His work embraces the American west coast from Davis, California, to the Canadian border. He has designed over thirty residences (and built several with his own hands); a host of buildings and plans for universities throughout the Northwest and California; three buildings for the Pacific Northwest Ballet; and myriad commercial buildings, remodels, restaurants, and parks. He has been an educator and mentor, teaching at the Universities of Idaho and Washington. In addressing all of its determinants simultaneously in plan, section, and elevation, Gordon Walker has, for half a century, created an architecture of exceptional merit.

Grant Hildebrand—architect, professor of architecture at the University of Washington for forty years, and author of ten books on architecture—is a recipient of the university’s Distinguished Teaching Award, the Washington Governor’s Writers Award for work of literary merit and lasting value, and the University of Washington College of Built Environments Distinguished Faculty Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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ISBN 13	9781732821408
ISBN 10	1732821402
Title	Gordon Walker
Author	Grant Hildebrand
Series	Gordon Walker
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Publisher	Skyhorse Publishing
Year published	2019-08-01
Number of pages	176
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