Background
Walker, Ralph Thomas was born on November 28, 1889 in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States. Son of Thomas I. and Marion A. (Shipley) Walker.
Walker, Ralph Thomas was born on November 28, 1889 in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States. Son of Thomas I. and Marion A. (Shipley) Walker.
Preparatory education, Classical High School, Providence. Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1911. Rotch Traveling scholarship, 1916.
Doctor of Letters, Syracuse University, 1965.
Began practice at New New York Consultant Haines, Lundberg & Waehler, firm architects for New York City Telephone Building, Irving Trust Company Building, Western Union Telegraph Building. Brooklyn Edison Office Building, telephone buildings, New York, New Jersey, Washington, District of Columbia, and vicinity, Travelers Insurance Building (Hartford), several buildings New York World’s Fair, Bell Telephone Laboratory (Murray Hill, New Jersey), Roger Williams Memorial (Providence, Rhode Island), George Eastman Memorial (Rochester, New York), Prudential Building, Newark, New Jersey, government project for Army Defense bases in Caribbean at Trinidad, Saint Lucia, Antigua, British Guiana, town of Nicaro Nickel Company, Cuba.
Belgian Chancellery, Washington, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, International Business Machines Corporation Research Center, Poughkeepsie, New York, General Foods Office Building, White Plains, New York, American Federation Labor Building, Washington.
Member of advisory board of design of foreign buildings State Department, 1954-1956, communications of Fine Arts, Washington, 1959. Member Architectural Commission Chicago World’s Fair Exposition, 1933. Fellow Pierpont Morgan Library.
Served as Second lieutenant, Engineers, camouflage section, United States, Army, World War I. (Fellow) The American Institute of Architects (1st chancellor, past president).
Member Regional Plan Association (director) 1956), Union Internationale Des Architects (vice president 1948-1957), National Institute Arts and Letters, National Academy Design (academician), Architectural League New York (past president), Beaux Arts Institute of Design (trustee 1933-1941), Municipal Art Society (past president), American Institute Planners, National Sculpture Society, Citizens Housing Council of New New York
Member Royal Institute British Architects, Philippine Institute Architects, Bund Deutscher Architekten, Colegio Nacional de Arquitectos (Cuba), El Institute de Urbanism del Peru. Clubs: Technology, Union League (New York City).
Married Stella Forbes, August 30, 1913 (deceased). Married second, Christine Foulds, March 25, 1972.