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Pries's influence and significance were cited by many of his students, notably Yamasaki in his autobiography and Steinbrueck in several books on Seattle architecture. Pries is also cited in recent monographs on Minoru Yamasaki, A. Quincy Jones, Roland Terry, and Wendell Lovett & Arne Bystrom.
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in the firm Bain & Pries. Initially successful, the firm could not survive the Depression and dissolved in late 1931. Thereafter Pries focused on his career as an educator, although he occasionally took on architectural projects under his own name.
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in San Francisco, known for its departments addressing Chinese and Japanese arts and crafts; as a result young Lionel Pries developed early familiarity with the artistic traditions of Asia. He graduated from
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in fall 1928 and soon became the center of the school. From 1928 to 1958, he was the inspirational teacher of a generation of architecture students at Washington, among them
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with the brick facade designed by Pries in 1926 (to the right); the white stucco portion (to the left) was a later modification by another architect.
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After travel in Europe, he returned to San Francisco where he practiced architecture for the next four years, although he spent a year in
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Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, "Modern or Traditional? Lionel H. Pries and Architectural Education at the University of Washington, 1928–1942,"
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in Los Angeles. The reason for Pries's abrupt departure from the university was concealed for nearly fifty years.
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Pries worked as a drafter until he was able to retire in 1964, then lived quietly until his death in 1968.
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From 1931 to 1932, Pries served as Director of the Art Institute of Seattle (predecessor to the
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Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture
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In 1981, the University of Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning (now
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in San Francisco in 1916. He received his B.A. in Architecture from the
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Beginning in the late 1920s and continuing to 1942, Pries travelled to
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Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects
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Pries joined the faculty of the Department of Architecture at the
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Rocker, Andrew, "Lionel H. Pries: Educator of Architects,"
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every summer and regularly interacted with leaders in
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Andalucia Building
Santa Barbara, California
architect
artist
Pacific Northwest
San Francisco
Oakland
the S. & G. Gump store
Lick-Wilmerding High School
University of California, Berkeley
John Galen Howard
Paul Cret
University of Pennsylvania
Santa Barbara
1925 earthquake
Seattle
William J. Bain
University of Washington
Minoru Yamasaki
A. Quincy Jones
Ken Anderson
Paul H. Kirk
Roland Terry
Fred Bassetti
Victor Steinbrueck
Perry Johanson
Wendell Lovett
Seattle Art Museum
Kenneth Callahan

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