Eleanor Raymond

Eleanor Raymond
FAIA
Born
Eleanor Agnes Raymond

(1887-03-04)March 4, 1887
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
DiedJuly 24, 1989(1989-07-24) (aged 102)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Alma mater
OccupationArchitect
Notable work

Eleanor Raymond FAIA (March 4, 1887 – July 24, 1989) was an American architect. During a professional career spanning some sixty years of practice, mainly in residential housing, Raymond explored the use of innovative materials and building systems. Much of her work was commissioned by women from her social group in Boston and Cambridge. One client called her “an architect who combines a respect for tradition with a disrespect for its limitations.” The author of a monograph on her life praised her work for its "subtle simplicity without succumbing to architectural exhibitionism".[1]

She designed one of the first International Style houses in the United States in 1931, a plywood house in 1940, and the “Sun House,” in 1948.[2] Raymond undertook one of her most ambitious works, the Dover Sun House,[3] an innovative house with solar collectors, with scientist and inventor Maria Telkes from the MIT Solar Laboratory.[4]

Eleanor Raymond amassed more than 50 years of professional experience in the practice of architecture and in 1961 was made a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.[5]

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