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Barnes, Edward Larrabee
(b Chicago, IL, 15 April 1915). American architect. He studied architecture at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (1938–42), where his teachers included Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius. After military service he opened his own office in New York (1949). His subsequent large and varied practice adhered to no specific style doctrine, although the simple forms and choice of materials of most of his work are modernist. His special ability was in organizing interior spaces and groups of buildings. This can be seen at small scale in his set of 23 shingled, pitch-roofed studio buildings (1961) on a steep site above the sea for the Haystack Mountain School at Deer Isle, ME, and in the Heckscher house (1974) on Mt Desert Island, ME, where four small shingled buildings are set on a wooden platform. On a larger scale his organization of interior spaces in the Walker Art Center (1969), Minneapolis, MN, and the Scaife Gallery (1975), Pittsburgh, PA, demonstrated his versatility.
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