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Craig Ellwood (Jon Nelson Burke) was born on 22 April, 1922 in Clarendon, Texas, U.S., is an American architect. Discover Craig Ellwood's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?
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Jon Nelson Burke |
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70 years old |
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22 April 1922 |
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22 April |
Birthplace |
Clarendon, Texas, U.S. |
Date of death |
30 May, 1992 |
Died Place |
Pergine Valdarno, Italy |
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United States
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Craig Ellwood Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Craig Ellwood's Wife?
His wife is Faith Irene Walker Gloria Henry Anita Eubank
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Faith Irene Walker Gloria Henry Anita Eubank |
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Jeffrey, Erin, Adam (with Gloria McIniry Henry) Caitlin Emily Ellwood (with Leslie Hyland) |
Craig Ellwood Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Craig Ellwood worth at the age of 70 years old? Craig Ellwood’s income source is mostly from being a successful architect. He is from United States. We have estimated Craig Ellwood's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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architect |
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Along with many others in the 1920s, Ellwood's family moved west, following U.S. Route 66, finally settling in Los Angeles in 1937.
Craig Ellwood (April 22, 1922 – May 30, 1992) was an influential Los Angeles–based modernist architect whose career spanned the early 1950s through the mid-1970s.
Although untrained as an architect, Ellwood fashioned a persona and career through equal parts of a talent for good design, self-promotion and ambition.
He was recognized professionally for fusing of the formalism of Mies van der Rohe with the informal style of California modernism.
Ellwood was born Jon Nelson Burke in Clarendon, Texas.
There, Ellwood, as Johnnie Burke, attended Belmont High School, where he was class president before graduating in 1940.
In 1942, Ellwood and his brother Cleve both joined the U.S. Army Air Corps.
Ellwood served as a B-24 radio operator, based with Cleve in Victorville, California, until his discharge in 1946.
After his discharge from the Army, Burke returned to Los Angeles and set up a company with his brother Cleve and two friends from the war, the Marzicola brothers, one of whom had a contractor's license.
The four men called their firm 'Craig Ellwood' after a liquor store called Lords and Elwood located in front of their offices.
Burke later legally changed his name to Ellwood.
In 1948, he joined the firm Lamport Cofer Salzman (L.C.S.) as a construction cost estimator, having acquired this skill during his work for the Craig Ellwood Company.
Ellwood also studied structural engineering through UCLA extension night school for five years.
He became increasingly involved in design and architecture, resulting in Ellwood's first commissions, all for residences.
By the late-1950s, though not a licensed architect, Ellwood was nonetheless a sought-after university lecturer, eventually giving a series of talks at Yale University, and teaching at the University of Southern California and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona's Department of Architecture.
Though Ellwood's office expanded with the size and number of his commissions, it was never a particularly profitable enterprise.
Ellwood established 'Craig Ellwood Design' in 1951.
There, Ellwood would provide the commissions and the vision, and it was up to USC-trained architect Robert Theron 'Pete' Peters, and later others, to provide the technical realization, drawings and the required sign-off of a licensed architect.
Early projects included Case Study House 16 in 1952.
The designs were well received by both the trade and potential clients, often receiving favorable coverage in influential publications like John Entenza's Arts & Architecture, often arranged for by Ellwood personally.
Thus the firm received a growing stream of both residential and commercial commissions, and Ellwood's style matured to fully embrace the concepts put forth by International Style architects, particularly Mies van der Rohe.
It continued through the mid-1970s, with several notable projects, including the master plan for the Rand Corporation's headquarters in Santa Monica, California, a number of Xerox and IBM offices, and the trademark "bridge building" dramatically spanning an arroyo and a roadway at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
As published in the 1976, the Art Center building is recognized as the work of Craig Ellwood Associates, with James Tyler as design architect and Stephen Woolley as project architect.
The practice closed in 1977 and Ellwood retired to Italy to focus on painting and on restoring a farm house near Ambra, Italy.
Elwood's first wife was Faith Irene Walker, known as "Bobbie".
They had three children, including designer Erin Ellwood, and divorced in 1977.
He then married Anita Eubank and moved to Pergine Valdarno, Italy.
After his divorce from Eubank, he and his fourth wife, Leslie Hyland Ellwood, had a daughter.
Some sources have sought to re-credit this building solely to Tyler, who had worked for John Sugden (a former associate of Mies) and was the architect of the Art Center addition, completed in 1991.
Ellwood died on May 30, 1992, in Pergine Valdarno; he was 70 years old.