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The AIA gratefully
acknowledges the
following sponsors
of our 150th Anniversary
celebration:
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Founders Circle:
$1,000,000:
McGraw-Hill
Construction,
Official Media
Sponsor
Autodesk,
Official Software
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Year Awarded: 1985
Born: May 25, 1914;
Hobart, Oklahoma, USA
Died: 1983;
Quote
Lean and clean.
—the phrase Caudill often used to describe CRS's buildings
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• 1973: Fodrea Community School, Columbus, Ohio
• 1970: Cypress Junior College, Cypress, Calif.
• 1965: Larsen Hall, Graduate School of Education, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1961: Laboratory wing of Colorado College's Olin Hall of
Science
• 1955: Belaire Elementary School, San Angelo, Tex.
• 1955: Central High School, San Angelo, Tex.
• St. Joseph's Academy, Brownsville, Texas
• Public School 219, the “dome school,” Flushing
Queens, N.Y.
Biography
William Caudill earned a BArch from Oklahoma State University in
1937. He followed that with a master’s degree at MIT in 1939.
From 1939 to 1942, Caudill taught architecture at Texas A&M,
but then joined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where he served
from 1942 to 1944. In 1944 he joined the U.S. navy and served in
the military until 1946.
After leaving the service, he returned to Texas A&M, where he
taught until 1949. There he helped to establish the Texas
Engineering Experiment Station, the engineering research agency of
the State of Texas and a member of The Texas A&M University
System. His work there on optimizing natural ventilation and
daylighting in school buildings became a cornerstone of Caudill
Rowlett, the practice he began with John Miles Rowlett in
1946.
In 1947 Caudill and Rowlett moved their practice to College
Station; in 1948 Wallie Scott, a former student of theirs, joined
as a partner, and they reorganized as Caudill Rowlett Scott (CRS).
William Peña, another student of Caudill and Rowlett, also
joined as a partner, but asked them to not change the firm’s
name.
In 1948 the CRS was awarded the commission to design an elementary
school in Blackwell, Okla. The Blackwell school project launched
considerable change in how schools were designed in the United
States and helped established CRS’s reputation as an important
schoolhouse designer. In 1950 CRS opened branch offices in New York
and Hartford, Conn., and in 1952 a regional office in Oklahoma
City. In 1957, CRS became one of the first architecture firms to
incorporate, and they opened another office in Corning, N.Y. In
1958, the firm moved its main office to Houston, becoming the
city’s largest architecture firm with seven partners. By the
end of the 1950s, CRS has become an important nationwide practice.
During the 1960s and 1970s, CRS expanded its projects to include
higher education and hospital design and began working overseas in
Saudi Arabia.
Between 1961 and 1969, Caudill served as the director of Rice
University’s School of Architecture. From 1969-1971, he was
Rice’s William Ward Watkin professor of architecture. While in
that role, he developed an intern program, a visiting-critic
program, and a publication series called Architecture at
Rice. In addition, he wrote or cowrote 12 books, including the
influential Space for Teaching and Architecture by
Team.
William Wayne Caudill is both the first Oklahoma-born and -educated
architect as well as an the first Texan to win the AIA Gold Medal.
In addition, the AIA conferred its Architecture Firm Award on CRS
in 1972. He and the firm won many other awards and recognitions
over the years, including the 1978 Gold Medal Rope from the Sigma
Delta Fraternity, Association of Collegiate Schools of
Architecture.
In 1966 to 1968, Caudill was a member of the Advisory Committee on
New Educational Media of the Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare. He served on the Advisory Panel on Architectural Services
of the General Services Administration from 1966 to 1969 and was an
architectural consultant to the Department of State on foreign
buildings 1974–1977. He was a member of the U.S. Energy
Research and Development Ad-Hoc Commission. He was a member of the
board of directors of Herman Miller Inc. and in 1969 an initial
member of the Academy of Texas.
Caudill joined the AIA in 1946, served on the AIA board of
directors, and in 1962 was elected to the AIA Fellowship.
Caudill was a strong believer in sharing knowledge and ideas across
architecture practices. He was a teacher and a communicator, and he
advocated architectural research and publication, sharing
information with both clients and competitors to encourage the
architectural disciplines to grow. With this perspective, he was a
leader in the industry.
He was also an innovator in how professional architecture practices
should be organized and operated. He believed that architectural
design was more effectively developed by interdisciplinary teams
than by individual designers, especially in complex building
programs. CRS reflected this belief as it grew into one of the
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