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Henry Hill
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Foreign others with the same name, see Henry Hill (disambiguation)
During World World War II Hill served as a captain in the United States. Army Corps of Engineers. Hill helped define the woodsy Second Bay Tradition, which combined the rigors of the International Style with regional, vernacular influences. Hill designed as many as 500 houses, several stores, commercial buildings and larger projects, primarily in the Bay Area and Carmel, from the late 1940s to 1979.
Hill designs can also be found in Southern California, Connecticut, Kentucky, El Salvador and Austria.
Hill"s architecture is romantic and dramatic, emphasizing light and shadow, views and natural textures. John Elkin Dinwiddie, Gardner Dailey and William Wurster also helped define the Second Bay Tradition.
The Henry Hill archive is at the Environmental Design at University of California Berkeley.
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United States