HENRY P. GLASS (1911-2003)
Glass completed undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture at the Vienna Technical University, and immigrated to the United States in 1939. Settling in Chicago in 1942, Glass eventually opened his own practice specializing in industrial design and taught industrial design at the School of the Art Institute 1945-1967. He was elected Fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America, formerly the Industrial Designers Institute. His Swing-Line bedroom set for children, painted in primary colors, and his Cricket folding chair are familiar to the baby-boom generation.
His published travel sketches and a compilation of his Christmas card drawings document his eclectic tastes in locales including his home-town Vienna, other European cities, Mexico, Jamaica, Belize, and Harbor Springs and other small towns in Michigan, during a period of nearly fifty years 1954-1998.
- "Burg Forchtenstein, Burgenland 1988." 100 Travel Sketches by Henry P. Glass. Northfield, IL: E.C.G. Publishers, 2000.
D. CODER TAYLOR (1913-2000)
Taylor studied architecture at Carnegie Institute of Technology, graduating in 1935, and began his professional career in the Chicago office of his uncle R. Harold Zook. Later, he was a principal in the Chicago firm Holsman, Holsman, Klekamp and Taylor (1945-1952) and subsequently joined a partnership with L. Morgan Yost in 1952. In 1960 he left that partnership to form Coder Taylor and Associates. For the various partnerships with which he was associated, Taylor's best works were residential, including low and high-rise multi-family buildings, and single-family residences that were influential in the development of the post-war modern ranch house in the Midwest. He was elected Fellow American Institute of Architects in 1969.
Taylor's four Christmas cards reveal his wide-ranging travels and his fine skill in watercolor. As a high school student he began sketching houses and at Carnegie Tech he received all his "best marks on the pretty pictures" [renderings and presentations] as recounted in his oral history (p.15). Later in the interview he commented: "I was crazy to draw." (p. 19).
- "Italian Church of the Beatitudes, on the Shore of the Sea of Galilee," 1994 [Israel].
- "Presbyterian First Church of Otago, Dunedin," 1993 [New Zealand].
- "Iona Abbey, Scotland," 1995.
- "Santa Maria della Salute," 1992 [Venice].