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 1914 - 1983 (69 years)
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| Name |
William Wayne CAUDILL |
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F.A.I.A |
| Birth |
25 May 1914 |
OK  |
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Male |
| Death |
25 Jun 1983 |
Houston, TX |
| Person ID |
I11514 |
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| Last Modified |
10 Jan 2015 |
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| Notes |
- AIA Gold Medal Winner 1985 * William Wayne Caudill, FAIA (honored posthumously)
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William Wayne Caudill was born to Walter and Josephine Caudill in 1914. He grew up in Hobart, Oklahoma where he spent Saturdays and summers working at his father 's grocery store. He attended Central High School in Oklahoma City, and in 1937 graduated from Oklahoma State University with a bachelor's in architecture. On scholarship at M.I.T., he graduated with a master's in architecture in 1939.
After his education at M.I.T., Bill Caudill married Edith Woodman and joined the architecture faculty at Texas A&M University. There, he wrote his first book, Space for Teaching. Although he had never designed a school himself, the book would make him a pioneer in school design.
From 1943-1945, Caudill served in the Navy. In 1946, he and Texas A&M fellow faculty member John Rowlett founded the architecture firm Caudill and Rowlett over a grocery store in Austin, TX. The firm moved to College Station and in 1948, Wallie Scott, Caudill's former student, became the third partner of the firm. In 1949, Willie Peña, the fourth original partner, joined the firm of Caudill, Rowlett, and Scott.
The firm got its start with a commission to build two schools in Oklahoma, in large part due to Caudill's book on schools, Space for Teaching. Over the next twenty years, William Caudill established himself as an authority on school design . Eventually his firm had designed schools, colleges, and universities in 26 states and eight foreign countries.
In 1974, after his wife Edith's death, William Caudill married Aleen Plumer Harrison, a friend from his days at Oklahoma State University.
The firm continued to expand, and in 1970 turned public under the name of CRS Design Associates, Inc. with divisions in architecture, project management and construction, and engineering.
Caudill continued to devote himself to education as director of the Rice University School of Architecture (1961-1969) and as William Ward Watkin Professor (1969-1971). A popular speaker, Bill Caudill delivered more than 200 speeches at professional meetings and universities, and wrote 12 books and over 80 articles, imparting his knowledge and creativity to the field of architecture.
William Caudill died in 1983 at age 69.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/fcabf.html
CAUDILL, WILLIAM WAYNE (1914-1983). William Wayne Caudill, architect and teacher, was born on May 25, 1914, in Hobart, Oklahoma, the son of Walter H. and Josephine (Moores) Caudill. He attended Oklahoma State University (B.S. Arch., 1937) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M. Arch., 1939). He was a teacher, a proponent of architectural research and publication, and an innovator in the organization of professional architectural practice.
From 1939 until 1942 and again from 1946 until 1949 Caudill taught architecture at Texas A&M. From 1946 until 1949 he also was research architect at the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, where he coordinated work on optimizing natural ventilation and daylighting in school buildings. The results of this research were incorporated into buildings designed by the architectural firm that Caudill and John Miles Rowlett (1914-78) organized in Austin in 1946, moved to College Station in 1947, and reorganized as Caudill, Rowlett, and Scott in 1948, upon the admission of Wallie E. Scott, Jr. (1921-89) to partnership. Beginning in 1949 Caudill Rowlett Scott, as the firm was commonly called, produced a series of acclaimed school buildings that propelled it by the end of the 1950s to nationwide practice. In 1958 the firm moved its office from Bryan to Houston, where during the 1960s it developed an additional specialized practice in hospital design. Caudill Rowlett Scott's buildings received numerous state and national design awards. By 1969 Caudill had developed an international reputation as an authority on school design and had received commissions for schools, colleges, and universities from twenty-six states and eight foreign countries.
He served as director of the School of Architecture at Rice University from 1961 until 1969; from 1969 until 1971 he was William Ward Watkinqv professor of architecture at Rice. There he assembled a young and enthusiastic faculty and skillfully publicized the school by developing a visiting critic program, a student intern program, and a publication series, Architecture at Rice.
Caudill was the author or coauthor of twelve books, the most influential of which were Space for Teaching (1941) and Architecture by Team (1971). The latter is an exposition of his idea that comprehensive architectural services for complex building programs were more effectively provided by interdisciplinary teams than by single designers. This notion was reflected in the organization of Caudill Rowlett Scott and guided its development during the 1970s, when its range of professional services, numbers of employees, and volume of work increased until it became one of the largest architectural and engineering firms in the United States. In recognition of this professional entrepreneurship, the American Institute of Architects conferred its Architecture Firm Award on the partners in 1972.
Caudill was a member of the Advisory Committee on New Educational Media of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1966-68), a member of the Advisory Panel on Architectural Services of the General Services Administration (1966-69), architectural consultant to the Department of State on foreign buildings (1974-77), and a member of the United States Energy Research and Development Ad-Hoc Commission. He was a member of the board of directors of Herman Miller, Incorporated, and of the American Institute of Architects. Caudill joined the AIA in 1946, was elected to fellowship in 1962, and became the first Texas architect to receive the Gold Medal of the AIA, which was awarded to him posthumously in 1985. During World War IIqv he served in the United States Army Corps of Engineers (1942-44) and the United States Navy (1944-46). He married Edith Roselle Woodman in 1940, and they had two children. After Edith died, Caudill married Aleen Plumer Harrison, in 1974. He died in Houston on June 25, 1983.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: American Architects Directory. Contemporary Architects (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980; 2d ed., Chicago: St. James Press, 1987). Nancy Acker Elisei, The TIBs of Bill Caudill (Houston: CRS Sirrine, 1984). Texas Architect, July-August 1983. Who's Who in America, 1982-83.
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