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Hermann V. von Holst (1874–1955) was an American architect practicing in Chicago, Illinois, and Boca Raton, Florida, from the 1890s through the 1940s, best remembered for agreeing to take on the responsibility of heading up Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural practice when Wright went off to Europe with Mamah Cheney in 1909. Von Holst was born in Freiburg, Germany, on June 17, 1874,〔Book of Chicagoans, 1911〕 the son of the eminent historian Hermann Eduard von Holst and Hoboken, New Jersey, native Annie Isabelle Hatt, who were married on April 23, 1872, in New York City.〔familysearch.org〕 The von Holsts lived in Germany with visits to the United States until they emigrated from Germany to Chicago in 1891, where von Holst, Sr., became head of the department of history at the University of Chicago. ==In Chicago== Herman V. von Holst graduated from the architecture program at the University of Chicago in 1893 and the architecture program at MIT in 1896.〔The Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright and His Midwest Contemporaries, by H. Allen Brooks, 1972, p. 86〕〔http://web.mit.edu/museum/chicago/vonholst.html〕 He found employment as a draughtsman at the prestigious architectural firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, in their Chicago office, one of the successor firms of the celebrated architect Henry Hobson Richardson. By 1900, von Holst was head draughtsman at the firm.〔The Technology Review, MIT, 1900, p. 374〕 Following extensive travels, von Holst opened his own practice in Chicago in 1905, with offices in The Rookery Building, Chicago.〔The Technology Review, MIT, 1905, p. 253〕 In 1909, he moved his office to Chicago's Steinway Hall, where he was among a collegial group of Prairie School architects. Active in professional organizations, von Holst served as treasurer of the Architectural League of America in 1905.〔American Art Directory, American Federation of the Arts, 1905, p. 283〕 He published several books on architectural subjects, including ''Cyclopedia of Drawing'' (1907) and ''Modern American Homes'' (1913) which featured work of fellow architects, including Walter Burley Griffin, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Lawrence Buck. He served as professor of architectural design at the Chicago School of Architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago.〔''Boca Raton's Old Floresta'', by Donald W. Curl; ''The Spanish River Papers'', Vol V., No. 2, Boca Raton Historical Society, Feb 1977〕 He also taught design in the Department of Architecture at the Armour Institute of Technology (later IIT).〔Cyclopedia of Drawing: A General Reference Work on Drawing, by Hermann v. Von Holst, 1907〕 In the period 1904–1906, von Holst created summer countryside estate architecture in the White Mountains of New Hampshire for socially prominent and wealthy clients, including Pittsburgh glassmaking millionaire George A. Macbeth and International Harvester partner John Glessner, whose Chicago Glessner House was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson.〔''Summer Cottages in the White Mountains'' by Bryant Franklin Tolles, 2000, pp. 128–129〕 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「Hermann V. von Holst」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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