![]() ![]() JE: Where are we recording this interview? BJ: We’re in (El Castillo) retirement center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. So, thank you very much for what you’re about to tell us. JE: And it makes this recording even more important. I don’t have any special honor in being old but I’m glad that it’s been a full life. JE: That makes your present age, BJ: Ninety-three, which also means that I’m one of the last architects standing of my generation-which was very exciting. Jonesīob’s contributions to mid-century and modern architecture dot the landscapes of Oklahoma’s cities. Bob, would you state your full name, please? Bob Jones: Robert Lawton Jones. Chapter 02 – 7:13 Influence of Father John Erling: My name is John Erling. Architectural Engineer Tom Wallace joins this interview with Bob Jones, heard only on m. The oral history interview you are about to hear was recorded five weeks before Bob’s death on September 14, 2018. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Oklahoma City. Their work included the Cox Business Center, First National Bank Tower, Center Plaza Apartments, Bishop Kelley High School, the terminal at the Tulsa International Airport and St. In 1957, he joined two local partners to open the architectural firm known as Murray Jones Murray. He then earned a Fulbright scholarship and studied in Germany under Egon Eiermann, one of Germany’s most prominent post-war architects.īob came back to Tulsa in 1954 to design a civic center master plan. In 1951, Bob Jones began graduate school at the Illinois Institute of Technology. In 1949, he studied at the University of Notre Dame in nearby South Bend, Indiana. It started when he decided to head out to Chicago, reasoning that an aspiring architect should make his way to the most exciting city in architecture. He also served as campus planner for the University of Tulsa and retired from architecture in 1997.īob Jones was ninety-three when he died September 14, 2018.Ĭhapter 01 – 1:14 Introduction Announcer: Born in McAlester, Oklahoma, Robert Lawton Jones received one of the more elaborate educations in Modernist design. Soon after, Jones began an eleven-year teaching professorship at the University of Oklahoma. The firm reached its peak in the early ’80s. Their work includes the Cox Business Center, First National Bank Tower, Center Plaza Apartments, Bishop Kelley High School, the terminal at the Tulsa International Airport and St. In 1957 he joined two local partners to open the architectural firm known as Murray Jones Murray. He came back to Tulsa in 1954 to design a civic center master plan. And if that weren’t enough, he then earned a Fulbright scholarship and studied in Germany under Egon Eiermann, one of Germany’s most prominent postwar architects. In 1951, he began graduate school at the Illinois Institute of Technology, learning from the dean of “less is more,” Mies van der Rohe. It started when he decided to head out to Chicago, reasoning that an aspiring architect should make his way to the “most exciting city in architecture.” In 1949, he studied at the University of Notre Dame in nearby South Bend, Indiana, while working for Chicago firms such as Perkins + Will. Born in McAlester, Oklahoma, Robert (Bob) Lawton Jones received one of the more elaborate educations in modernist design.
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