Barton Myers was born on November 6,1934 and is an American architect and president of Barton Myers Associates Inc in Santa Barbara, California.
17 Facts About Barton Myers
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Barton Myers's grandfather was a former Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia, and served on the board of the Jamestown Exposition in 1907.
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Barton Myers graduated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and served as a jet fighter pilot for five years in the United States Air Force, based first in the western United States and then in the United Kingdom.
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Barton Myers attended architecture courses at Oxford and at Cambridge University, and returned to the United States to study architecture.
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Barton Myers received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania and subsequently worked with Louis Kahn from 1964 to 1966.
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Barton Myers established his own practice in Toronto in 1968, and was principal in the firm of Diamond and Myers until 1975, when he formed Barton Myers Associates in Toronto.
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In 1986, Barton Myers was the recipient of the first Toronto Arts Award for Architecture in recognition of his contribution to the city and, in 1994, he received the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Gold Medal.
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Barton Myers taught architecture and planning at both the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo.
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Barton Myers has served as the Thomas Jefferson Professor at the University of Virginia, the Graham Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and has been a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Barton Myers has held a continuing appointment as Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Architecture and Urban Design since 1980.
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Mainly in colour, the Barton Myers monograph contains 52 projects illustrated with over 350 photographs.
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One of the themes running through Barton Myers' work is the theme of urban consolidation.
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Barton Myers believes that the success of a building lies in its ability to define the surrounding streets, squares, forecourts and courtyards that make cities livable.
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Barton Myers continued this exploration of off-the-shelf components with the Wolf House, Toronto, and commercial projects such as the Alcan office headquarters in Toronto.
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In 2006, Barton Myers wrote a book "3 Steel Houses" which chronicles his explorations of steel house design throughout his career and its historical context.
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The Barton Myers residence became an architectural example for modernist infill housing relating to the historic Victorian neighborhood.
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Barton Myers has taught architecture and lectured at Colleges and Universities since 1969, mentoring a generation of North American architects and planners.