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Walter Netsch Architect : American Architecture
20th Century American Architecture Practice: US Building Designer
post updated Apr 7, 2021
Walter Netsch Architect – Key Projects
Featured Building by Walter Netsch:
United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
US Air Force Academy CCLD, Colorado Springs
Design: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)
picture © SOM
US Air Force Academy CCLD – Oct 17, 2012
The Center for Character and Leadership Development is a new building on the campus of the United States Air Force Academy. It is the first new building since 1981 to be erected on the terrazzo, which was designed by SOM architects in 1954.
Walter Netsch Buildings, alphabetical:
Art Institute of Chicago – East Wing, USA
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Grinnell College, USA
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Illinois Institute of Technology – IIT, USA
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Inland Steel Building, Chicago, USA
Date built: 1956-57
Miami University, USA
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Northwestern University buildings, USA
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Sophia University, USA
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Texas Christian University, USA
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University of Chicago, USA
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University of Illinois Circle Campus, Chicago
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University of Iowa, USA
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Wells College, USA
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More architecture projects by US architect Walter Netsch online soon
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
SOM Architects Practice Information
American architect
1920-2008
Walter worked for SOM – Skidmore Owings & Merrill – eventually as a partner
Office was based in Chicago
Education:
Massachusetts Institute of technology – MIT
Career:
L. Morgan Yost, Kenilworth, Illinois
Skidmore Owings and Merrill
1947-
Netsch married in 1963 – Dawn Clark Netsch
He was most closely associated with the brutalist style of architecture as well as with the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. His signature aesthetic is known as Field Theory and is based on rotating squares into complex shapes.
He may be best known as the lead designer for the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado and its famous Cadet Chapel. The Cadet Area at the Academy was named a National Historic Landmark in 2004. He was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
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