Michael Alexander Gallis papers

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Michael Alexander Gallis papers

1908-1990

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2017m49

The collection comprises personal correspondence, drawings, photographs, monographs on Erich Mendelsohn, professional materials and ephemera documenting Gallis's personal and professional life, with particular attention to his years in training at the School of Architecture at the University of Oregon, Eugene, as well as his independent architectural practice after 1953. The collection excludes materials produced while Gallis worked with Erich Mendelsohn.

5.25 Linear Feet (11 Boxes)

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Gallis, Michael Alexander, 1909-2001

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Michael Gallis was a Russian-born architect who emigrated to the United States with his family in 1924 at the age of 16. He enrolled in the School of Architecture at the University of Oregon, Eugene, one of the first schools in the United States to discard the Beaux Arts model and embrace modernism in its pedagogy. During World War II, Gallis joined an architectural engineering firm specializing in th design of U.S. military installations around the world, and later reflected that this job was a...