Boyd Georgi Explained

Boyd Georgi
Birth Name:Boyd E. Georgi
Birth Date:20 January 1914
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:University of Southern California
Occupation:Architect

Boyd E. Georgi (January 20, 1914 – October 19, 1999)[1] was an American architect. He was a USC-trained California architect with a Southern California practice in modernism that spanned from residential works to schools and libraries. Georgi was president of the Pasadena and Foothill chapter of the AIA in 1964.[2]

Georgi is known for a number of important late modernist houses and other buildings in the California area.[3] Georgi's most significant largely-unmodified work is the Altadena library main branch (1967).[4]

Georgi also taught at the USC School of Architecture.

Notes and References

  1. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30525462/obit/ GEORGI, Boyd E.
  2. http://www.aiapf.org/chapter.html AIA: Pasadena & Fooothill.
  3. Cultural Resources of the Recent Past: Historic Context Report, City of Pasadena http://www.ci.pasadena.ca.us/planning/deptorg/dhp/pdfs/PasadenaContextReportFINALREVISED_20071010.pdf
  4. Gebhard, David (2003). An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles, Revised edition. Layton UT: Gibbs Smith, 543.