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William Krisel (November 14, 1924 – June 5, 2017) [1] was an American architect best known for his pioneering designs of mid-century residential and commercial architecture. [2] [3] Most of his designs are for affordable homes, especially tract housing, with a modern aesthetic .
8 de jun. de 2017 · William Krisel, who designed captivating but economical tract housing that enabled real estate developers in the Sun Belt to market modern architecture to the masses in the 1950s and ’60s,...
6 de jun. de 2017 · Meet The Architect Who Helped Bring Modernism To The Masses. He's best known for the 1,200 middle-class homes in California that he designed from 1957 to 1963, when he worked with the builder ...
William Krisel is one of the few architects to fully realize the postwar dream of bringing Modernism to the masses. William Krisel in 2006. Photo by Larry Underhill. William Krisel, AIA (1924-2017 ) By his own account, Krisel was responsible for designing over 40,000 Modern homes in the U.S., 30,000 in Southern California alone.
6 de jun. de 2017 · Esteemed mid-century modern architect William Krisel, known for his use of the butterfly roof, died in Beverly Hills on Monday at the age of 92.Working largely in Southern California, Krisel designed over 30,000 homes in the region. Some of the architect’s most influential work was built in Palm...
8 de jun. de 2017 · Photo: Darren Bradley. William Krisel, who had a heavy hand in shaping California modernism, passed away on Wednesday at age 92. The architect, who was born in Shanghai but raised in the...
6 de jun. de 2017 · William Krisel, an architect whose homes featuring butterfly roofs, patterned concrete block walls and post-and-beam construction put a Modernist stamp on Southern California’s suburbs in the...
