William Wayne Caudill
| William Wayne Caudill | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 25, 1914 Hobart, Oklahoma |
| Died |
June 25, 1983 Houston, Texas |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Oklahoma State University, M.I.T. |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Spouse(s) | Edith Woodman (1940-1974) Aileen Plumer Harrison (1974-1983) |
| Partner(s) | John Miles Rowlett, Wallie Scott, Willie Peña |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Walter and Josephine Caudill |
| Awards | AIA Gold Medal 1985 (posthumous) |
| Practice | Caudill Rowlett Scott |
| Buildings | Central High School, San Angelo. Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, Houston Cypress College, California King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia |
William Wayne Caudill[1] (May 25, 1914 - June 25, 1983) was a notable American architect and professor. He is commonly referred to and addressed as Bill Caudill. He was one of the founding partners of Caudill Rowlett Scott along with John Rowlett. As a modernist architect, Caudill had a profound impact on the design and construction of schools and the acceptance of modern architecture in the United States.
Life[2]
William Wayne Caudill was born to Walter and Josephine Caudill in 1914. He grew up in Hobart,[3] Oklahoma where he spent Saturdays and summers working at his father 's grocery store. He attended Central High School in Oklahoma City, and in 1937 graduated from Oklahoma State University with a bachelor's in architecture. On scholarship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he graduated with a master's in architecture in 1939. His thesis topic, a school building program for Stillwater, Oklahoma, was later partly implemented.
After his education at M.I.T., Bill Caudill married Edith Woodman and joined the architecture faculty at Texas A&M University. Post war, he joined Texas A&M as a faculty. He was a research architect for Texas Engineering Station where he wrote the bulletin Space for Teaching (1941) which brought him publicity. From 1943-1945, Caudill served in the Navy.
After the war, he rejoined Texas A&M and established his firm. Caudill maintained his academic connection as director of the Rice University School of Architecture (1961-1969) and as William Ward Watkin Professor (1969-1971). A popular speaker, Bill Caudill delivered more than 200 speeches at professional meetings and universities, and wrote 12 books and over 80 articles. In 1974, after his wife Edith's death, William Caudill married Aileen Plumer Harrison, a friend from his days at Oklahoma State University. William Caudill died in 1983 at age 69 in Houston.
Career
In 1946, he and Texas A&M fellow faculty member John Rowlett founded the architecture firm Caudill Rowlett Scott over a grocery store in Austin, TX. The firm moved to College Station and in 1948, Wallie Scott, Caudill's former student, became the third partner of the firm. In 1949, Willie Peña, the fourth original partner, joined the firm of Caudill, Rowlett, and Scott.The firm got its start with a commission to build two schools in Oklahoma, in large part due to Caudill's book on schools, Space for Teaching.[4] Over the next twenty years, William Caudill established himself as an authority on school design .
Eventually his firm had designed schools, colleges, and universities in 26 states and eight foreign countries. The firm continued to expand, and in 1970 turned public under the name of CRS Design Associates, Inc. with divisions in architecture, project management and construction, and engineering.
Notable Buildings
Texas
- Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, Houston
- Willis Library, University of North Texas, Denton (1972)
- Fulbright Tower, Houston
- One Houston Center, Houston
- NASA Lunar Curatorial Facility at Johnson Space Center, Houston
- (w/ Collins & Wagner) Texas Pavilion for HemisFair '68; now Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio
Continental U.S.
- Public School 219, the "dome school", in Flushing, New York
- Chrysler Technology Center in Auburn Hills, Michigan (1993)
- Aggie Memorial Stadium, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
- Cypress College in Cypress, California
- Roy E. Larsen Hall at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Pima Community College West Campus, Tucson, Arizona (1973)
- Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy, in the Bronx, New York (1974)
- Colorado State University-Pueblo at Pueblo, Colorado
International
Bibliography
Space for Teaching (1941)
Toward Better School Design (1953)
A Bucket of Oil (1974)
Memos of Egypt (1975)
Architecture and You (1978)
- ↑ "Caudill, William Wayne | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture". www.okhistory.org. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
- ↑ "William Wayne Caudill - College of Architecture". crs.arch.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
- ↑ STEPHEN, FOX, (2010-06-12). "CAUDILL, WILLIAM WAYNE". tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
- ↑ Caudill, William Wayne. Space for teaching;: An approach to the design of elementary schools for Texas,.