Aaron Green

Background

Aaron Green was born in 1917 in Corinth, Mississippi.

Education

He studied as an architect at Cooper Union in New York City, New York, which is where he was first introduced to the works of Frank Lloyd Wright when he asked the renowned architect to design a house for Stanley Rosenbaum.

Career

Green was invited by Wright to join Taliesin as an apprentice in the early 1940s, from which point the two maintained a close friendship. Green enlisted in the Air Force during World World War II, serving as a bombardier in the Pacific theater. After the war, he moved to Los Angeles and worked as an interior designer with industrial designer, Raymond Loewy.

In 1951, Green moved to San Francisco and founded Aaron G. Green Associates, Incorporated., an architectural practice dedicated to service-oriented design.

In this organization, Green acted as Wright's West Coast representative. Green participated in forty of Wright's projects.

He taught as a lecturer and critic at Stanford University's department of architecture for fifteen years. His projects: 450 Water Street Medical Offices in Santa Cruz, California American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, North Carolina (1999). Greenwood Ridge Wine Tasting Room in Philo, California Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, California Shopping Center in Santa Clara, California Weir Law Office in San Jose, California.

Achievements

• In 2001, he became the first recipient of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation's Gold Meda

Membership

At the time of Wright"s death in 1959, the Marin County Civic Center was uncompleted, and Green saw the project through to completion In 1968, he became a member of the College of Fellows, American Institute of Architects.