Hoshour, Harvey S.

Harvey S. Hoshour was born September 18, 1931. His distinguished architectural career began in the late 1950s. After graduating with honors from Pomona College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hoshour studied in Rome under the internationally known Italian engineer, Pier Luigi Nervi, and participated in the International Conference for Modern Architecture (CIAM), founded by French Architect Le Corbusier. In 1957, Hoshour lived his dream of working in Chicago with world renowned Mies van der Rohe, whose modernist style strongly influenced Hoshour's approach towards design. He also worked for Harry Weese and Associates in Chicago, and I.M. Pei and Associates in New York. He received his New York architectural license in 1961. In 1962, Hoshour taught at the University of New Mexico in the Department of Architecture, and worked for Alexander Girard in Santa Fe before opening his own practice in 1963 in downtown Albuquerque. Hoshour contributed a modernist approach to Albuquerque's public and residential buildings, creating a striking contrast to the organic lines of New Mexico's preeminent Spanish Pueblo Revival Style architecture. Hoshour's designs utilize a sleek and geometrically balanced simplicity. The jobs were for buildings located mostly in Albuquerque, as well as in other New Mexico communities and on the Navajo reservation. Plans for apartment buildings in New York City drawn in 1961 were some of Hoshour's earliest work. Among his major commissions was the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center (1975), which evoked the Anazasi structure Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. He also worked on important historic preservation projects in Albuquerque including the Phase I and Phase III Renovation Project for the Kimo Theater (1978-1980), and the New Mexico Title Company (also known as Occidental Life) building restoration (1984). Less than one year after his death on December 27, 1988, Hoshour was awarded the Bainbridge Bunting Award from The Albuquerque Conservation Association for his restoration projects.

Harvey S. Hoshour was born September 18, 1931. His distinguished architectural career began in the late 1950s. After graduating with honors from Pomona College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hoshour studied in Rome under the internationally known Italian engineer, Pier Luigi Nervi, and participated in the International Conference for Modern Architecture (CIAM), founded by French Architect Le Corbusier.

In 1957, Hoshour lived his dream of working in Chicago with world renowned Mies van der Rohe, whose modernist style strongly influenced Hoshour’s approach towards design. He also worked for Harry Weese and Associates in Chicago, and I.M. Pei and Associates in New York. He received his New York architectural license in 1961.

In 1962, Hoshour taught at the University of New Mexico in the Department of Architecture, and worked for Alexander Girard in Santa Fe before opening his own practice in 1963 in downtown Albuquerque. Hoshour contributed a modernist approach to Albuquerque’s public and residential buildings, creating a striking contrast to the organic lines of New Mexico’s preeminent Spanish Pueblo Revival Style architecture. Hoshour’s designs utilize a sleek and geometrically balanced simplicityThe jobs were for buildings located mostly in Albuquerque, as well as in other New Mexico communities and on the Navajo reservation. Plans for apartment buildings in New York City drawn in 1961 were some of Hoshour's earliest work.

Among his major commissions was the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center (1975), which evoked the Anazasi structure Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. He also worked on important historic preservation projects in Albuquerque including the Phase I and Phase III Renovation Project for the Kimo Theater (1978-1980), and the New Mexico Title Company (also known as Occidental Life) building restoration (1984).

Less than one year after his death on December 27, 1988, Hoshour was awarded the Bainbridge Bunting Award from The Albuquerque Conservation Association for his restoration projects.