Hugh Ferriss belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Hugh Ferriss as American architect (1889–1962).
Hugh Ferriss was born at St. Louis in 1889. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at Washington University in St. Louis.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in United States shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Hugh Ferriss died in 1962, aged 73. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Washington University in St. Louis
