| S. Charles Lee | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Name | S. Charles Lee |
| Nationality | American |
| Birth date | September 5, 1899 |
| Birth place | Chicago, Illinois |
| Date of death | January 27, 1990 |
| Alma mater | Armour Institute of Technology |
| Work | |
| Significant buildings | Los Angeles Theatre, Max Factor Building |
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Life
Early life
Simeon Charles Levi was born in Chicago in 1899 to American-born parents of German-Jewish ancestry, Julius and Hattie (Stiller) Levi. He grew up going to vaudeville theatres, nickelodeons,and early movie houses. A tinkerer interested in mechanical things, Lee built three motorcars as a teenager. His interest in mechanics led him to Lake Technical High School in Chicago, where he graduated in 1916. [2]
Education
While in high school in 1915, he worked after school in the office of Chicago architect Henry Newhouse, a family friend who specialized in theater design: small motion picture houses, nickelodeons and remodeling storefronts into theaters. Lee attended Chicago Technical College, graduating with honors in 1918. His first job was as architect for the South Park Board of the City of Chicago. During World War I he enlisted in the Navy. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All After his discharge in 1920, he entered the Armour Institute of Technology to study architecture, where he was exposed to the principles of the Ecole des Beaux Arts which are reflected in his later work. Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT is a private PhD-granting university located in the greater Chicago Illinois area with programs in Engineering, Science, École des Beaux-Arts ("School of Fine Arts" refers to a number of influential Art schools in France. [2]
While in Chicago, Lee worked for Rapp & Rapp, a highly regarded Chicago architectural firm well known for movie theater design. The architectural firm Rapp and Rapp was active in Chicago during the early 20th century [1] Lee was also influenced by Louis Sullivan's lectures in his architecture classes and Frank Lloyd Wright's work, particularly Midway Gardens and Wright's Oak Park studio. Louis Henri Sullivan (September 4 1856 &ndash April 14 1924 was an American Architect, and has been called the "father of modernism. Lee was also impressed by the 1922 Chicago Tribune Tower competition, which juxtaposed historicism with modernism. The Tribune Tower is a Gothic building located at 435 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. Lee considered himself a modernist, and his career revealed "both the Beaux Arts discipline and emphasis on planning and the modernist functionalism and freedom of form. "[2]
Career
In 1922, Lee moved to Los Angeles. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West His first major movie palace was the Tower Theatre, a Spanish-Romanesque-Moorish design that launched a career that would make Lee the principal designer of motion picture theaters in Los Angeles during the 1930s and 1940s. Movie palace is an American English Synonym for Movie theater, but nowadays usually used within the USA for the grand cinemas of the 1910s to early He is credited with designing over 400 theaters throughout California and Mexico. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. His palatial and Baroque Los Angeles Theatre (1931) is regarded by many architectural historians as the finest theater building in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Theatre is a 2000 seat auditorium in the historic Broadway theater district in Downtown Los Angeles. [1]
Lee was an early proponent of Art Deco and Moderne style theaters, including Fresno's Tower Theatre. Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939 affecting the decorative arts such as Architecture, Interior design, and Industrial The Bruin Theatre (1937) and Academy Theatre (1939) are among his most characteristic. The latter, located in Inglewood, is a prime example of Lee's successful response to the automobile. Inglewood is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County California, southwest of downtown Los Angeles. [1] After World War II Lee recognized that the grand theater building had become a thing of the past, and began to focus on new technologies in industrial architecture. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including His work in the field of tilt-up building systems was published in Architectural Record in 1952. [1]
Buildings
- Los Angeles Theatre, Los Angeles, California
- Max Factor building, Hollywood, California
Awards
- Lee's work on the Los Angeles Tower Theatre was featured in the regional architectural journal Architect & Engineer in 1928. The Los Angeles Theatre is a 2000 seat auditorium in the historic Broadway theater district in Downtown Los Angeles.
- In 1934, Lee was honored for architectural excellence by the Royal Institute of British Architects at the International Exhibition of Contemporary Architecture in London, for his 1931 "Spanish American Mission style" design for the Fox Florence Theatre in Los Angeles. [1]
- One of Lee's non-theater projects, a Jewish synagogue designed in the California Mission tradition, was featured in Architectural Record in 1946.
- Lee received the the highest recognition of the Society of Registered Architects, the "Synergy Award," in 1975.
- The UCLA Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning established an endowed chair honoring Lee in 1986. [1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Powell, John Edward (1996). S. Charles Lee. A Guide to Historic Architecture in Fresno, California. Retrieved on 2008-02-04. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 211 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons
- ^ a b c Scheid, Ann (2000-03-13). 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Events 1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. S. Charles Lee: Architect. The S. C. Lee Collection. UCLA Library. Retrieved on 2008-02-04. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 211 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons
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