Aaron G. Green

Aaron Gus Green, May 4, 1917 - June 5, 2001 Aaron G. Green was born on May 4, 1917 in Corinth Mississippi. But it was the place where he grew up, Florence Alabama, near hydroelectric dams, that gave him his passion for functional, large scale architecture. Green attended the Chicago Academy of Fine toon meer arts, Florence State College and Cooper Union before earning a Taliesin fellowship to work in Spring Green, Wisconsin and Scottsdale, Arizona under Frank Lloyd Wright. From 1940 til 1943, Green learned from the architectural master and shaped his burgeoning career to follow in Wright's footsteps. During World War II, Green served as a bombardier in the Pacific. After his stint in the war, he worked as a designer in Los Angeles until Wright invited Green to come join him in San Francisco. Green spent most of his time in San Francisco, acting as Wright's representative on the West Coast. Green and Wright collaborated on many projects together, perhaps the most famous being the design of the Marin County Civic Center, Wright's only government building. They also worked together on the V. C. Morris Store in San Francisco and also a few designs that were never built. Those projects of Green's that he created himself still reflected the ideals and patterns of Wright's vision and were therefore a commemoration of Wright. Green was awarded the first Gold Medal of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in June, in recognition for fifty years of work and architectural beauty in the Bay Area. He wrote "An Architecture for Democracy" about the creation of buildings by himself and his associate, Frank Lloyd Wright. Aaron G. Green died June 5, 2001 in San Francisco. He was 84. toon minder