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Legendary Black architect, Paul Revere Williams, helped build modern Los Angeles
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Architect Paul Revere Williams was born in Los Angeles in 1894 and rose to prominence designing homes and public buildings.
The Los Angeles-born legend helped build and shape modern L.A. as we know it. The archive of nearly six decades of his work, including photos by famed photographer Julius Schulman, has been jointly acquired by the Getty Research Institute and the USC School of Architecture. There s a real excitement I think around Paul Williams, particularly in Southern California. I think we just want to leverage that and also help people understand the complexity of Paul Williams, Milton Curry, the dean of the architecture school at USC, said.
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Karen Hudson, Williams granddaughter and the family historian, had removed many of the documents to work on a book about her grandfather s legacy, Paul R. Williams, Architect. He was a gentle man with a dream who believed that if he could please his clients, that was his value as an architect, she said.
He was the first Black member of the American Institute of Architects and the first to receive its highest honor Gold Medal, posthumously in 2017. That is when his granddaughter issued a challenge upon accepting it on his behalf: to accept more Black architects.
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