Utahâs first person of color licensed as an architect designed the soaring roof of St. Annâs and the imposing State Office Building
World War II veteran William Wing Louie was one of the seven members of the first graduating class of the University of Utahâs School of Architecture. | Updated: 4:07 p.m.
(Sean P. Means | The Salt Lake Tribune) St. Ann Catholic Church on 2100 South and 500 East, one of the Salt Lake City buildings designed by architect William Wing Louie, who died April 21, 2021, at age 98.
William Wing Louie, a pioneering architect in Utah who designed grandly inspiring churches and modern office buildings, has died.
SALT LAKE CITY If you didn t know who William Will Wing Louie was, there s a good chance you ve come across and appreciated his work across the Wasatch Front.
Louie, an award-winning and groundbreaking Utah architect behind some of the state s more recognizable churches, libraries, schools, businesses and even a portion of Salt Lake City s International Peace Gardens, died last week. He was 98. He was a very community-oriented man, his daughter, Lisa Louie, said. I mean he was involved when he was young in pretty much everything from the community.
Born to Wing Louie and May Szto Shee in Ogden on Jan. 18, 1923, William Louie was one of 10 children in a family growing up in northern Utah. His parents had previously immigrated from Canton, China. He attended school in Ogden, later recalling in a 2018 interview that he found a passion for art and civil engineering classes.