Edward Larrabee Barnes (1915-2004)

Name

Barnes, Edward Larrabee

Personal Information

Birth/Death:    b. 22 April 1915 - d. 21 September 2004
Occupation:    American architect
Location:    New York, NY

AIA Affiliation

Member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 1955-decease
Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) 1966
Recipient of the AIA Gold Medal 2007 (posthumous)

Biographical Sources

American Architects Directories:
Address listed in 1956 American Architects Directory
Repeat of 1956 biographical listing in 1962 American Architects Directory
Biographical listing in 1970 American Architects Directory

Biographical Directories:
Entry in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (New York: Macmillan, 1982)

Related Records

Archival Holdings

The American Institute of Architects Archives
      Membership file contains membership application, Fellowship nomination, and request for emeritus (retired) status. The AIA Awards files contain his Gold Medal nomination (5MB pdf, photography copyright information sheets not scanned).

Special Collections, Frances Loeb Library, Harvard Graduate School of Design
https://guides.library.harvard.edu/gsd/archives
      The Edward Larrabee Barnes Collection
      Edward Larrabee Barnes graduated from the GSD in 1942, and his subsequent architectural projects-ranging from residences to museums to corporate structures-have been characterized by simplicity, geometrical purity, and sensitivity to site. The Barnes Collection includes material selected by the architect himself: drawings, plans, photographs, models, and related promotional material. Among the projects represented are the Haystack Mountain School of Arts and Crafts in Maine (1959-1961), the SUNY Purchase Master Plan (1966-1977), the Walker Art Center (1966-1971, 1984), the Asia Society Gallery (1981), and the Dallas Museum of Art (1983-1984, 1993) among many others. A number of private homes are also included: Reid House (1948), Osborn House (1949-1950), OConnell House (1951), Buck House (1952), Weiner House (1952), Barnes House (1952), Marsters House (1955), Miller House (1957), Straus House (1958), and Rockefeller House (1965).       Gift of Edward Larrabee Barnes 1993, and Barnes Family 2005
Online finding aid available at nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:GSD.loeb:des00018

Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis
       Edward Larrabee Barnes collection (N 127)
       Collection contains plans designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes for a remodel of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
       For more information htps://www.lib.umn.edu/naa

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