Occupation Architect Books Pheidias, Brunelleschi Children John Langley Howard | Role Architect Name John Howard | |
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Born May 8, 1864 ( 1864-05-08 ) Chelmsford, Massachusetts Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology Awards Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (1901) Practice Howard, Cauldwell & Morgan Projects University of California, Berkeley, School of Architecture Died July 18, 1931, San Francisco, California, United States Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology Structures Sather Tower, Hearst Memorial Mining B, Doe Memorial Library, California Memorial Stadium, Sather Gate Similar People Julia Morgan, Bernard Maybeck, Emile Benard, George Hearst, William Randolph Hearst | ||
The Belfry of Sather Tower at Berkeley University/Le clocher de Sather Tower à Berkeley
John Galen Howard (May 8, 1864 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts – July 18, 1931 in San Francisco, California) was an American architect who began his career in New York before moving to San Francisco, California. He was the principal architect at Howard, Cauldwell & Morgan and employed Julia Morgan early in her architectural career.
Contents
- The Belfry of Sather Tower at Berkeley UniversityLe clocher de Sather Tower Berkeley
- Career
- Personal
- Works
- References
Howard was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1882-1885) and the École des Beaux-Arts(1891-1893). He was an apprentice with H. H. Richardson and then a draftsman with Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge.
Howard completed many notable projects and was elected a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects in 1901.
Career
After practicing in New York, Howard moved to California in 1901 to execute the Hearst Plan as the supervising architect of the Master Plan for the University of California, Berkeley campus, and for founding the University of California's architecture program. Among his most famous buildings are the Campanile, California Memorial Stadium, Sather Gate, and the Hearst Greek Theatre, all located at UC Berkeley.
Howard also designed the centerpiece of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, the Electric Tower, several buildings at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition in Seattle, and the San Francisco Civic Auditorium.
Some of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
In 1910 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician.
Personal
John Galen Howard born May 8, 1864 in Chelmsford, MA. Howard was son of physician, Dr. Levi Howard and Lydia Jane Hapgood, a homemaker and he had four brothers. He married Mary Robertson Bradbury on August 1, 1893. They had five children; Henry Temple Howard (born in 1894) was an architect who worked with his father; Robert Boardman Howard (born 1896), became a sculptor and married another noted Bay Area sculptor, Adaline Kent (1900-1957); other children included Charles Houghton Howard (born 1899), John Langley Howard (born 1902) both were known artists of the time, and Jeanette Howard (born 1905).