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Calvin Chester Straub FAIA (March 16, 1920 – 1998) was an American-born architect who made a significant impact on architecture through design and education. His modesty, confidence, and passion for life combined with a no-nonsense focus on strategic accomplishment were typical of his World War II generation. Straub was a professor of architecture at University of Southern California (1946–1961) and Arizona State University (1961–1988). He also created an important body of work as the senior partner of Buff, Smith and Hensman, both previous students at USC. This work was widely published in the lifestyle magazine ''Sunset'' and considered highly influential in shaping the vision and iconography of the post-world war II contemporary southern Californian style (). His vitality and contagious enthusiasm for life and architecture inspired generations of students. Superior educators are often eclipsed by gifted students. Straub's students were able to achieve pinnacles of success, wealth or fame that eluded him. Some students include Frank O. Gehry; Pier Koenig and many others. Straub lived and worked at the epicentre of forces that shaped much of the direction of architecture in his day. He inspired his students from a passion birthed in direct association with the personalities that motivated his profession. He had personal relationships with Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), Henry Mather Green (1870–1954), R.M. Schindler (1857–1953), and was employed briefly by Richard Neutra (1892–1970).〔()〕 His architectural work was (made famous ) and published extensively by his association with famed architectural photographer Julius Shulman. Straub is best known for his work in Southern California, especially his partnership with Conrad Buff III and Donald Hensman: Buff, Straub & Hensman (1956-1961). This team designed and built about 30 projects, mostly residential. The work was highly influential and widely published, winning numerous awards. Straub and his contemporaries shared a common culture; a comradeship born in military training, shared war time experiences, that formed a progressive architectural community and a movement. Notable military veterans include: Craig Ellwood (1922–1992), Alfred Newman Beadle (1927–1998), Gordon Drake (1917–1951), Kemper Nomland, Jr (1919–2009), Pier Koenig (1925–2009), Ralph Haver (1915–1987). His influence on American architecture as a professor of architecture at USC (1946–1961) and later ASU (1961–1988) along with his leadership in the highly creative and influential WWII generation architectural community about USC and the LA basin in the mid twentieth century is easily underestimated. ==Biography== Born March 16, 1920, his earliest youth was spent in a residence on Nob Hill in San Francisco. The family moved in 1934 to Mamaroneck, New York, in 1935 to Macon, Georgia, 1940 to Los Angeles and finally Pasadena that same year. His father, Chester Straub, was a business man challenged by the economic impacts of the depression. Calvin would recall, ''“I have the most clear memory of my father. He had a V-12 Cadillac convertible sedan. It was chocolate brown and all the valve covers where jewel headed. He wore a black Chesterfield coat with a black homburg. It was the Depression and I don’t think he had a nickel to his name. But, he had a great car and he looked like a million bucks.”'' 〔()〕 Upon graduation from high school, Calvin enrolled at Pasadena Junior College where he took courses in architecture and was active in the R.O.T.C. (Reserve Officer Training Center) program. Many of Calvin’s classmates where enrolling at the University of Southern California’s architecture School. Chester Straub couldn’t afford to send his son to USC but could afford Texas A&M. Straub had married Sylvia Gates (1920–1974) just before the war. She was the granddaughter of William Day Gates the founder of the American Terracotta company who also founded its arts and crafts line: Gates TEACO. The firm provided terracotta works in Chicago for some of Luis Sullivan and F.L Wright's famous works. Until her premature death at 51, Sylvia was a true inspiration and collaborator for Straub in all aspects of his life. In an interview Straub stated of Sylvia, ''"She was a lady and a leader who was loved and admired by all of her friends. She was my wife but also my partner in our career. We made a pretty good team for over thirty years-I still miss her."'' They had two daughters Kris and Kathrin. Kathrin went on to become a successful potter and artist in the Gates family tradition. Kris had two children. Straub was changed by the loss of Sylvia, losing much of his vitality in his later years. In 1941, Calvin Straub arrived in College Station for his university and military education. On December 7 of that year, he was in Independence, Texas with Professor Bill Caudell and two other students looking at old regional buildings. They heard on the radio that Pearl Harbor had been attacked.〔()〕 Straub’s draft board instructed him to return to Pasadena and wait to be drafted; he chose rather to join the Navy “V-12” program. This was a program that allowed him to finish his education while awaiting deployment. In a short time he had gone from being a future A&M alumni, to a graduate from USC, the school he had originally hoped to attend. He graduated as an Ensign in 1944 and report to his ship, L.S.T. 602, in New Orleans to prepare for Europe.〔()〕 Typical of demands of his generation he recalled, ''“I had taken some classes in navigation, and was then handed a navigator's case with maps and instruments and told to take the ship out of port and to Europe.”'' 〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Calvin C. Straub」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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