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Bookmark or Share- The Art Center College of Design: Craig Ellwood’s ... - ArchEyesBorn in 1922, Craig Ellwood, despite having no formal architectural education, emerged as a leading figure in mid-century modern architecture. His works, characterized by simplicity, clarity, and transparency, reflected the post-World War II design ethos.
- CRAIG ELLWOODCraig Ellwood is credited with designing some of the most elegant modern houses built in California in the 1950s and 1960s, but he was not educated as an architect. Born Jon Nelson Burke, in Clarendon, Texas, Burke established in 1946 a small construction company to take advantage of the house-building opportunities offered by the G.I.Bill.
- CRAIG ELLWOOD: THE CALIFORNIAN DREAM - JAKE TAYLOR ARCHITECTUREA cluster of young enthusiastic architects embraced the momentum of the design revolution in Southern California during this period, including Craig Ellwood, a designer who across his career mastered the ideals of the generation.
- How Craig Ellwood Became the Architect Who Made LA ModernWhat you may not know about Craig Ellwood, the self-taught architect known for his minimal steel-and-glass designs, is that his larger-than-life persona as “the Cary Grant of architecture” and the “California Mies van der Rohe” was as studied as his buildings.
- Of all Ellwood’s designs, his life may have been his bestCraig Ellwood led two lives. Although many careers include contradictions and changing identities, Ellwood’s was characterized by a dramatic bifurcation that remained unknown to his public and...
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