Richard Ellison Ritz

Background

Ritz, Richard Ellison was born on December 8, 1919 in Colfax, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Henry Clay and Katharine Fredericka (Failing) Ritz.

Education

Student, Whitman College, 1936-1937.

Career

Draftsman, job captain, Pietro Belluschi, Architect, Portland, Oregon, 1946-1951; project manager, chief production, Belluschi and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Portland, 1951-1956; project manager, then general manager, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Portland, 1956-1982; private practice architecture, Portland, 1982-1994; founder, Greenhills Press, 1991.

Achievements

• Richard Ellison Ritz has been listed as a notable Architect, architectural historian, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • An Architect Looks at Downtown Portland

    (Book by Ritz, Richard)

  • History of the Reed College Campus & Its
  • A History of the Reed College Campus & its Buildings

Membership

Board of directors Architecture Foundation, Portland, 1982-1985. Member Portland Hist.Landmarks Commission, 1987-1998. Sergeant United States Air Force, 1942-1945.

Fellow American Institute of Architects (board directors Portland chapter 1975-1979, president 1978, member handbook committee Finance Management for Architects 1980). Member Society Architectural Historians, Oregon Council Architects (delegate 1975-1979), Portland Art Museum, Oregon History Society, Lang Syne Society, City Club Portland, University Club (Portland), Multnomah Athletic Club.

Connections

Married Evelyn R. Robinson, September 21, 1940. Children: Margaret Karen Ritz Barss, Susan Elizabeth Ritz Williams.

Father:

Henry Clay Ritz

Mother:

Katharine Fredericka (Failing) Ritz

Spouse:

Evelyn R. Robinson

child:

Susan Elizabeth Ritz Williams Ritz

child:

Margaret Karen Ritz Barss Ritz