Robert Little (architect)
modernist architect 1919-2005
Robert Andrews Little (1919–2005) was a modernist architect based in Cleveland, Ohio. He received the Cleveland Arts Prize for Architecture in 1965. Little practiced in the Bauhaus and International styles. He also designed and advocated energy-efficient features, and employed Jewish and African-American architects and engineers.
Born in Boston, he was a direct descendant of Paul Revere. Little studied with Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius. He graduated from Harvard in 1937 and continued there completing his masters 1939.
Little came to Cleveland in 1947. He taught at Case Western Reserve University’s school of architecture.
His firm, Little & Associates, merged with Dalton·Dalton Associates in 1969.
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