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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: 1990
Born: January 31, 1921;
Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA
Died: 2004;
Fayetteville,Arkansas,USA
Quote
I hope most of my work is going to outlast me, and I hope people will say, “This is an architect who did pretty good work.”
—In a 1998 interview, about his legacy
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Video (Real Player required)
Gold Medal ceremony, introduction by Peter Jennings (18:14)
Documentary, architecture of E. Fay Jones (4:29)
President George H. W. Bush presents the Gold Medal to Jones at the White House (3:25)
Peter Jennings introduces Jones, followed by his Gold Medal acceptance speech (6:09)
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• Fulbright Peace Fountain, University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, Ark.
• Thorncrown Chapel, Eureka Springs, Ark.
• Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel, Bella Vista, Ark.
• Pinecote Pavilion at the Crosby Arboretum, Picayune,
Miss.
• Underwood Building, Fayetteville, Ark.
• DePalma medical clinic, Fayetteville, Ark.
• Sky Rose Chapel, Los Angeles
Biography
Born Euine (pronounced U-wan, an old Welsh form of John) Fay
Jones, he was one of three children, but both of his sisters died
in childhood. His small family moved to Little Rock and later to El
Dorado, Ark.
As a teenager, Jones became interested in architecture after seeing
a film about Frank Lloyd Wright. He designed and built tree houses,
including one with a fireplace, which unfortunately caused his tree
house to burn down.
He entered the University of Arkansas, but because it didn’t
have an architecture program, he studied engineering. During World
War II, he left school and served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific
theater as a naval aviator. Afterward, he returned to the
University of Arkansas and in 1950 earned a BArch. He earned a
master’s degree in 1951 from Rice University in Houston; in
1990 the University of Arkansas awarded Jones an honorary
doctorate.
Jones became an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright, then established his
own practice in the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas. During
his career, he taught at the University of Oklahoma and the
University of Arkansas; at Arkansas he was chair of the department
from 1966 to 1974 and dean from 1974 to 1976.
In designing his buildings, Jones drew from the site’s
environment, the native materials, and the historial forms of the
region. He designed around his personal conception of beauty,
focusing on simplicity and graceful lines and exposing his intimate
environments to nature and the outdoors. He reflected these
practices perhaps best in Thorncrown Chapel and the Mildred B.
Cooper Memorial Chapel, two of his best-known projects.
In 1953 Jones received a Taliesin Fellowship, and in 1980 he was
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