Walter Netsch

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American architect architect human

Walter Netsch was an American architect and longtime SOM partner best known for his expressive, geometric "Field Theory" designs, including the iconic United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American architect → architect → human →
architecturalStyle	Brutalist architecture → Modernist architecture →
awardReceived	American Institute of Architects Fellowship (FAIA) →
basedIn	Chicago, Illinois, United States →
birthName	Walter Andrew Netsch Jr. →
conflictParticipatedIn	World War II →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1920-02-23 →
dateOfDeath	2008-06-15 →
designed	Harold Washington Library Center competition scheme (unbuilt) → Illinois State Library building in Springfield → Northwestern University library expansion (Deering addition / Main Library) → United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel → University of Illinois at Chicago Circle Campus master plan → University of Illinois at Chicago Library → buildings using Field Theory geometry →
developed	Field Theory geometric design method →
educatedAt	Massachusetts Institute of Technology →
employer	Skidmore, Owings & Merrill →
fieldOfWork	architecture →
genre	civic buildings → educational buildings → institutional architecture →
influenced	late-20th-century American campus architecture →
influencedBy	Modernism in architecture →
knownFor	Field Theory design system → expressive geometric designs →
memberOf	Skidmore, Owings & Merrill →
militaryService	United States Army Air Forces →
movement	Brutalism → Modern architecture →
name	Walter Netsch →
notableWork	Cadet Chapel at the United States Air Force Academy → United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel → United States Air Force Academy campus plan →
occupation	architect →
placeOfBirth	Chicago, Illinois, United States →
placeOfDeath	Chicago, Illinois, United States →
positionHeld	partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill →
residence	Chicago, Illinois, United States →
spouse	Dawn Clark Netsch → Gertrude Kerbis →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
US Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel →	architect
Walter Netsch →	name