Background
Myers, Barton was born on November 6, 1934 in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. Son of Barton and Meeta Hamilton (Burrage) Myers.
Myers, Barton was born on November 6, 1934 in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. Son of Barton and Meeta Hamilton (Burrage) Myers.
Bachelor of Science, United States Naval Academy, 1956. Master of Architecture with honors, University Pennsylvania, 1964.
York Square, Toronto; Ontario Medical Association, Toronto; Myers & Wolf Residences, Toronto; Housing Union Building, University of Alberta Citadel Theatre, Edmonton; Dundas-Sherboume Housing, Toronto. Major works by Barton Myers Associations include: Seagram Museum, Waterloo, Ontario; Library, Unionville; Howard Hughes Center, L.A.; Wang Tower, L.A.; Performing Arts Center, Portland, Ore.; Hasbro Inc. Corporation HQ, R.I.; Phoenix Municipal Center, Arizona; plans for Bunker Hill, L.A., Pasadena City Centre; Music Center Expansion, L.A., CBC Network HQ, Toronto, Cerritos Community Arts Center, N.W. Campus Housing, U.C.L.A., Art Gallery of Ontario expansion (competition winner), York University Fine Arts Bldg, expansion, Toronto; USC Education Building, USC Plaza, Los Angeles. Commissioned Second lieutenant United States Air Force, 1956, resigned, 1961. Architect Louis I. Kahn, Philadelphia, 1964-1965, Bower, Fradley, Philadelphia, 1967-1968. Architect, principal A.J. Diamond & Barton Myers, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1968-1975, Barton Myers Associates, Toronto, 1975-1996, architect, president Los Angeles, since 1981.
Distinguished visiting professor Arizona State University, Tempe, 1986. Senior professor University of California at Los Angeles, since 1981. Thomas Jefferson Professor University Virginia, Charlottesville, 1982.
Visiting professor, lecturer, Harvard University, University Pennsylvania, other universities United States and Canada, since 1968.
Principal works include Myers Residence, Toronto (Ontario Association Architects Toronto Chapter Annual Design award, 1971, Canada Housing Design Council award, 1971), Wolf Residence, Toronto (Architectural Record: Record Houses of 1977, Twenty-five Years of Record Houses, 1981), Housing Union Building, Edmonton (Canada Housing Design Council award, 1974, Design in Steel award, 1975), Citadel Theatre, Edmonton (City of Edmonton Design award, 1978, Stelco Design award, 1978), Seagram Museum, Waterloo, Ontario (Governor General's Medal for Architecture, 1986), Howard Hughes Center Master Plan and Wang Tower, Los Angeles, 1986, Phoenix Municipal Government Center (Winning Competition Entry, 1985), Portland Center for the Performing Arts, Portland (Progressive Architecture Design award, 1984, USITT Merit award, 1994), Art Gallery Ontario expansion (Winning Competition Entry, 1987), Film and Drama Facility York University, Toronto, 1987, Cerritos (California) Center Performing Arts, 1987 (USITT Honor Award, 1994), New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, 1991, Ivan Reitman Production Studio, 1994, Scripps Ocean Atmosphere Research Facility, 1995
others.
Fellow American Institute of Architects, Royal Architectural Institute Canada. Member Society Architectural Historians, Royal Canada Academy Art, Tau Sigma Delta.
Travel, reading, tennis.
Married Victoria George, March 7, 1959. 1 child, Suzanne Lewis.