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Harris, Harwell Hamilton
(b Redlands, CA, 2 July 1903; d 1990). American architect. He served a three-year apprenticeship with Richard Neutra (1928–32), and was one of the earliest American members of CIAM, joining in 1929. He began his architectural practice in Los Angeles in 1933 and soon distinguished himself as a designer by the completion of a home for himself on Fellowship Park Way, Los Angeles (1935). This tiny wooden pavilion with removable walls, which hovered dramatically over its steeply sloped site, established a restrained vocabulary of generous space, economical use of materials and simple but exact detailing, which became trademarks of his later work. He acknowledged influences as diverse as Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and Bernard Maybeck, but the strongest was probably his association with Neutra and Rudolf M. Schindler. Like Schindler he began from an unequivocally modernist point of view, but evolved a personal style based strongly on a pragmatic handling of local conditions and materials.
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