Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
Three of his designs are included on the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects list of Florida’s top 100 buildings (The Williamson House in Ponte Vedra Beach. Morgan’s residence in Atlantic Beach. And Dickinson Hall at the University of Florida, formerly the Museum of Natural History).
He has written five books including his most recent, Earth Architecture (2008).
Morgan has been described as a pioneer of sustainable design. Morgan grew up in Jacksonville and graduated with a bachelor"s degree from Harvard University before serving in the United States. Navy during the Korean War.
After the war he returned to Harvard to study architecture. He studied in Italy on a Fulbright Scholarship (United States-Italy Fulbright Commission) and then returned to Jacksonville in 1961 to open his architecture practice. in the city where he had grown up.
Morgan’s five books cover the architecture of pre-industrial cultures, including those in pre-Columbian North America and Micronesia.
He died in Jacksonville after a long illness on January 18, 2016, aged 85.
