Background
Jaques Andre Fouilhoux was born in 1879 in Paris, France.
Jaques Andre Fouilhoux was born in 1879 in Paris, France.
He was educated at the Sorbonne and after being graduated at the age of nineteen, studied architecture at the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures.
Arriving in the United States in 1904 the young man settled first at Detroit where he acquired skill in draftsmanship while employed in the office of Albert Kahn. A year or so later Mr. Fouilhoux moved to Portland, Oregon and in association with Morris Whitehouse practiced professionally until 1917. Having previously (in 1913) received his naturalization papers, at the advent of World War I he joined the U. S. Army, and as a member of the 129th Field Artillery went to France where he participated in the battles of St. Mihiel and the Meuse and Argonne. Promoted during his military service to the rank of Major, Mr. Fouilhoux later received the French Legion of Honor decoration. Returning to this country after the close of the war Mr. Fouilhoux resumed architectural practice in New York. In 1921 he joined Raymond Hood's office and for a decade was associated with him on a number of important works. During the following year they were invited by John Mead Hcwells to participate with him in the international competition which had been instituted for the Chicago Tribune Building. The plans were prepared in Mr. Hood's office and Hood & Fouilhoux, successful in winning the first prize, were commissioned architects of the building. A few years later the American Radiator Building was built in New York from their plans, a striking black and gold structure which brought wide recognition to its designers. They also prepared plans for the Bethany Union Church at 103rd and South Wood Streets in Chicago, built in 1926.
Between 1927 and 1931 (a period in which Frederick Godley was associated with Hood & Fouilhoux) the firm engaged in a busy and most successful practice, with the McGraw-Hill Building and the New York Daily News among their most important achievements. In succeeding years Mr. Fouilhoux maintained a partnership with William K. Harrison to which Mr. Abramovitz was admitted in 1941. On the huge Rockefeller Project Mr. Fouilhoux functioned as one of the designers, also he was connected with the Clinton Hill Development in Brooklyn, and at the New York World s Fair in 1938 assisted in designing the TryIon and the Perisphere.
He served for some years as Treasurer of the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, and at the time of his death was president of the New York Building Congress.
Elected to the New York Chapter, A.I.A. in 1925 and made a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1931.