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	Ralph Rapson
Title	AIA
Born	September 13, 1914; Alma, Michigan, USA
Died	March 29, 2008; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Education	University of Michigan; Cranbrook Academy of Art; New Bauhaus School; University of Minnesota
Firms	Ralph Rapson and Associates Inc. Architects-Planners, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Notes

Contents 1 Projects 1.1 Furniture 1.2 All Projects in Chronological Order 2 Discussion 2.1 Case Study House 4 (Greenbelt) 2.2 University Grove Houses 2.3 Related Content from Wikipedia 3 References 4 External Links

[edit] Projects

• Case Study House No. 4, 1945
• United States Embassy, at Stockholm, Sweden, 1954.
• United States Embassy, at Copenhagen, Denmark, 1954.
• Pillsbury House, at Wayzata, Minnesota, 1963. (Demolished 1997)
• Guthrie Theater, at Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1963. (Demolished in 2006)
• Cedar Square West, at Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1962 to 1973.
• St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, St. Paul Park, Minnesota, 1969.
• Rarig Center, at Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1971.
• Glass Cube, at Amery, Wisconsin, 1974 (architect's vacation home).
• Peterson Residence, at Edina Minnesota, 2005 to 2007.
• Prince of Peace Lutheran Church for the Deaf, St. Paul, Minnesota (Demolished 2007).
• Rapson Greenbelt House Series 2008.

[edit] Furniture

• Rapson Rapid Rocker, 1940.
• "Equipment for Living", Line of furniture for H.G. Knoll Associates, 1944
• "The Rapson Line" of furniture for H.G. Knoll Associates, 1944

[edit] All Projects in Chronological Order

• Cave House (with Dave Runnells), 1938
• 4/16 House Competition, 1938
• William and Mary Festival Theater and Fine Arts Center (competition entry), 1939
• Fabric House (with Dave Runnells), 1939
• Hageberg House, Okomos, Michigan, 1939
• Hoey House, near Birmingham, Michigan, 1939
• Prefabricated mobile homes for Half-Moon Trailer Company, ALma, Michigan, 1940
• Realistic House for Georgia (competition entry)
• Flint Public Library, Flint, Michigan (with Harry Weese), 1941
• Fabric House for The New House 194X (competition entry), 1941
• [[Evans house, Hinsdale, Illinois (Halcyon House), 1942
• Willow Run New Town and Schools, Ypsilanti, Michigan (with Eero Saarinen), 1942
• Storefronts of Tomorrow (competition entry), 1943
• B & O Railroad sleeping car designs (with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy), 1943
• B & O Railroad Ticket Office, Washington, District of Columbia, 1943
• Gidwitz House, Chicago, Illinois, 1943
• Helene Curtis Corporate Office, Chicago, Illinois (remodel), 1943
• Legislative Palace for Ecuador (competition entry with Robert Bruce Tague), 1944
• Case Study House No. 4, 1945
• Lopez House for "Blueprints for Tomorrow" (competition entry), 1945
• ABC House for "Design of a House for Cheerful Living" (competition entry), 1945
• Showroom for Nothing, Chicago, Illinois, 1945
• Johnson Residence, Chicago, Illinois, 1945
• Deerfield Houses, Chicago, Illinois, 1945
• Wheaton House, Wheaton, Illinois, 1946
• Walker House, Wheaton, Illinois, 1946
• Gladstone House, McHenry, Illinois, 1946
• Gladstone Clinic, McHenry, Illinois, 1946 (with John Van der Meulen)
• Shank House, Homewood, Illinois, 1946 (with George Fred Keck)
• Hope College, Holland, Michigan Master plan, 1946
• Dupont Room renovation, Dept. of Aeronautical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1947
• Mess hall redesign for U.S. Army Murphy General Hospital, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1947
• Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (competition entry), 1948
• Eastgate Apartments, Cambridge, Massachusetts (with others), 1950; AIA First Honor Award 1950
• National Association of Home Builders house design competition, 1950 (second prize)
• Hillside School for Boys, Marlborough, Massachusetts, master plan, 1950.
• U.S. Embassy Office Building, Oslo, Norway (with John Van der Muelen), 1952
• U.S. Embassy Office Building, The Hague, Netherlands (with John Van der Muelen), 1952
• U.S. Consulate and Office Building, Bremen, Germany (with John Van der Muelen), 1952
• U.S. Embassy Office Building, Athens, Greece (with John Van der Muelen), 1953
• U.S. Embassy Staff Apartments, Marseilles, France (with John Van der Muelen), 1953
• U.S. Embassy Staff Apartments, Dakar, Senegal (with John Van der Muelen), 1953
• United States Embassy (with John Van der Muelen), at Stockholm, Sweden, 1954.
• United States Embassy (with John Van der Muelen), at Copenhagen, Denmark, 1954.
• U.S. Embassy Staff Apartments, Boulogne-sur-Seine, France (with John Van der Muelen), 1954
• U.S. Embassy Staff Apartments, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France (with John Van der Muelen), 1954
• U.S. Consulate and Staff Apartments, Le Havre, France (with John Van der Muelen), 1954
• Schecter Hosue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1954
• Gidwitz Residence II, Ravinia, Illinois, 1954
• Chicago Centennial (competition entry), 1954
• Kern House, Lincoln, Massachusetts
• Hillside School for Boys, Marlborough, Massachusetts, Classroom and administration buildings, 1955.
• Wyer House, Wayzata, Minnesota
• Chamber of Commerce Office Building, Boston, Massachusetts, 1955
• U.S. Embassy Office Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1956
• Museum of Houses, Homestyle Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1956
• Professor William G. Shepherd House, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1957 (University Grove)
• St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Edina, Minnesota, 1957
• Meech House, Minnetonka, Minnesota, 1958
• Poole House, Chanhassen, Minnesota, 1958
• Dr. and Mrs. Alan Thal House, North Oaks, Minnesota, 1958
• Prince of Peace Lutheran Church for the Deaf, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1959
• Fargo Civic Center, Fargo, North Dakota (with Robert Cerny), 1959
• St. Paul Arts and Sciences Center, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1959
• Winton House, Maple Plain, Minnesota, 1959
• St. Luke's Presbyterian Church, Minnetonka Mills, Minnesota, 1959
• Kelly House, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1959 (University Grove)
• Jackson Development Co-op Apartment, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1960
• Midwest Group for Human Resources Conference Center, Kansas City, Missouri, 1960
• Wayzata Housing Development, Wayzata, Minnesota, 1960
• Mrs. Edward Brooks House, Wayzata, Minnestoa, aka "Longshadows", 1961
• Cohen House, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 1961
• Chapel in the Hills (competition entry), 1962
• Gault House, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1962 (University Grove)
• Cashman House, St. Paul, Minnesota, aka Morrell House, 1962 (University Grove)
• Lakewood Cemetery Maulsoleum, Minneapolis, Minnesota (competition entry)
• Tyrone Guthrie Theater, at Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1963. (Demolished in 2006)
• Pillsbury House, at Wayzata, Minnesota, 1963. (Demolished 1997)
• Amherst H. Wilder Center for the Elderly, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1963
• State Capitol Credit Union, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1963
• Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Minnesota (masterplan), 1963
• University Courts Housing, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1963
• Detroit Housing Project, Detroit, Michigan, 1963
• Houston Housing Project, Houston, Texas, 1963
• The Chateau, Minneapolis, Minnesota, aka University of Minnesota Students' Cooperative Dining Club, 1964
• Minneapolis Public Library and Information Center Southeast, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1964
• Butler House, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1964
• Mrs. Albert Hood House, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1964 (University Grove)
• Lutheran Brotherhood Housing and Office, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1964
• Teamsters Plaza, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1965
• Federal Office Building and U.S. Post Office, St. Louis, Missouri (with Sverdrup and Parcel), 1965
• Wainwright Building, St. Louis, Missouri (competition entry), 1965
• Weyerhaeuser Demonstration House, Jonathan, Minnesota, 1966
• Dr. and Mrs. Ira Gourley House, St. Paul Minnesota, 1966 (University Grove)
• Mr.s Albert Hood House II, Ames Iowa, 1966
• Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center (competition entry), 1967
• Butwin House, Mendota Heights, Minnesota, 1967
• Sethna House, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1967 (University Grove)
• Livermore House, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1968 (University Grove)
• Bell House, Roseville, Minnesota, 1969
• House of Leather and Suede, Edina, Minnesota, 1969
• Theater-in-the-Round, Minneapolis, Minnesota, remodel, 1969
• Wyer House, Wayzata, Minnesota, 1970
• Dr. Lewis House, Annandale, Minnesota, 1970
• St. Paul Parking Ramp, St. Paul, Minnesota (competition entry)
• UC Santa Cruz Performing Arts Center, Santa Cruz, California, 1971
• Hope Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1971
• University of Chicago International Studies Building, Chicago, Illinois (with Burnham and Hammond), 1971
• St. Thomas Aquinas Church, St. Paul Park, Minnesota, 1972
• Rarig Center for Performing Arts & Radio-Television Facility, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1972
• World Agromart, St. Paul, Minnesota (with Patch, Erickson, Madson and Hanson, Inc. Architects & Fowler-Hanley, Inc., Engineers) 1972
• Cedar Square West, at Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1962 to 1973.
• University of Minnesota Humanities and Fine Arts Center, Morris, Minnesota, 1973
• Glass Cube, at Amery, Wisconsin, 1974 (architect's vacation home).
• Cedar-Riverside Stage II, Minneapolis, Minnesota, aka Riverbluff A and B, 1974
• Wyer House II, Excelsior, Minnesota, 1975
• Hennepin Avenue Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1975
• St. Mary's Junior College Classroom and Laboratory Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1976
• University of Southern Illinois Recreation Facilities Building, Carbondale, Illinois, 1976
• Montessori School and Administration Building, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1977
• Vernon Tew House, Wayzata, Minnesota, 1977
• Pahlavi National Library, Tehran, Iran (competition entry), 1978
• First National Savings and Loan Bank Building, Esterville, Iowa, 1978
• Willow Run Condominiums, Okoboji, Iowa, 1979
• Tree House, 1979
• Rick Davis House, Afton, Minnesota, 1979
• Rancho Bernardo Performing Arts Center (competition entry), 1980
• Liu House, North Oaks, Minnesota, 1980
• Hitchcock Summer House, Lake Millie Lacs, Minnesota, 1980
• Lenz-Polesky House, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1984
• Matheson Public LIbrary, Matheson, Illinois, 1984
• Egyptian National Petroleum Products Institute, Cairo, Egypt (competition entry), 1985
• Lo House, Little Canada, Minnesota, 1985
• Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, Minnesota (competition entry), 1985
• AIA Minnesota Headquarters, Minneapolis, Minnesota (with The Stageberg Partners), 1986
• Daly House, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1987 (University Grove)
• University of Minnesota Aquatic Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1988
• Marijo Toner House, Madrid, New Mexico, 1988
• Eyes Optical Salon, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1989
• Heller House, North Oaks, Minnesota (remodel), 1989
• Harriet Tubman Shelter for Battered Women (Facility Programming), 1989
• Minnesota Vietnam Veterans Memorial (competition entry), 1991
• Chicago Crossing, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1992
• Heller House, North Oaks, Minnesota (remodel number 2), 1992
• 19th Avenue Parking Ramp, Minneapolis, Minnesota (with P.S. Vedi), 1994
• Trus-Joist MacMillan Frameworks House, Provo, Utah (competition entry), 1995
• Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, Minnesota, 1995
• Southwest State University Student Recreation and Athletic Facility, Marshall, Minnesota, 1995
• Mixed Blood Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota (addition and renovation), 1996
• Charles Dolan House, Laramie, Wyoming, 1996
• Rarig Center for Performing Arts & Radio-Television Facility, Minneapolis, Minnesota, (fire and life safety upgrade), 1996
• Heller Highwater Apartments, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1996
• Little Falls Lutheran Church, Little Falls, Wisconsin, 1996
• Retail Construction Services Headquarters, Lake Elmo, Minnesota, 1997
• Erica Johnson House, Bloomington, Minnesota, 1997
• Daily House, St. Paul, Minnesota (remodel), 1997
• Adath/Beth El Cemetery Chapel, Crystal, Minnesota, 1998
• Mary Anne and Darwin DeRosier House, Shorewood, Minnesota, 1998
• South Korean Embassy, Moscow, Russia, (with Doul International Architects, Seoul, Korea), 1998[[]]
• Rose and Peter Dwyer House, St. Cloud, Minnesota, 1998
• Jang-Baek Mountain Resort, China, 1998
• Peterson Residence, at Edina Minnesota, 2005 to 2007.

[edit] Discussion

[edit] Case Study House 4 (Greenbelt)

Designed by Rapson at age 30, the Case Study House No. 4 was also called Greenbelt. Though the project was not built as part of the Arts & Architecture magazine Case Study House program, modified versions were constructed much later. In 1989, "a version was constructed in 1989 for an exhibit sponsored by Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art." A further refinement and modernization of the design became the Rapson Greenbelt line of house designs available for purchase through Wieler Homes.

[edit] University Grove Houses

Ralph Rapson contributed 8 projects to the original University Grove housing development, plus a ninth house in the neighborhood in 1987, some 30 years after his first.

• Professor William G. Shepherd House, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1957 (University Grove)
• Kelly House, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1959 (University Grove)
• Gault House, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1962 (University Grove)
• Cashman House, St. Paul, Minnesota, aka Morrell House, 1962 (University Grove)
• Mrs. Albert Hood House, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1964 (University Grove)
• Dr. and Mrs. Ira Gourley House, St. Paul Minnesota, 1966 (University Grove)
• Sethna House, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1967 (University Grove)
• Livermore House, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1968 (University Grove)

• Daly House, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1987 (University Grove)

[edit] Related Content from Wikipedia

Ralph Rapson

See a related page at Wikipedia for additional information.

[edit] References

• "Ralph Rapson, 93; modernist architect", by Claire Noland, Los Angeles Times, 2008.0402.
• "The Rapson Cube", by Jane King Hession, Rip Rapson, and Bruce N.Wright, ArchitectureWeek No. 347, 2007.0829. P C1.1.
• Sketches and Drawings from Around the World Ralph Rapson. Afton Historical Society Press: Afton, MN. April 2002. ISBN 1890434493.
• Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design Jane King Hession, Rip Rapson, Bruce N. Wright. Afton Historical Society Press: Afton, MN. April, 1999. ISBN 1890434140.

[edit] External Links

• Ralph Rapson, 93; modernist architect, Obituary at Los Angeles Times, 2008.0402
• A Storied Career: Ralph Rapson, by Burl Gilyard, Minnesota Magazine, July-August 2002.
• Ralph Rapson - ArtNet article
• Ralph Rapson - Biography at R20thCentury.com