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Michael Meredith Hare (January 7, 1909 – 1968) was an American architect. Based in New York City, he advocated for modernism in architecture.
Early life
Michael Meredith Hare was born to Montgomery Hare and Constance Parsons Hare in New York City. He attended Groton School from 1921 to 1927. He entered Yale College in 1927 and transferred to the department of architecture in 1929. Following a leave of absence to study architecture in France in 1931, Hare returned to Yale in 1933 to complete his degree. He later received a degree from Columbia University in 1935.
Career
Hare was seen as a imaginative, progressive young architect.[1]
While a student at Yale, his experiences in Paris changed him. He was completely out of sympathy with the philosophy then prevalent at that school. In Paris, Mr. Hare had become converted to the Contemporary viewpoint, quite different from that held at Yale.
Mr. Hare has differed seriously with the philosophy of Frank Lloyd Wright despite working directly with him. However, these differences acted as a breath of fresh air for Hare’s work.
Hare later worked at New York architectural firm of Corbett and MacMurray, under famed architect Wiley Corbett. While at the firm, he was a part of a team of architects that helped construct Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall.
In 1936, Hare designed the Nordic Theater, a single-screen streamline moderne cinema in Marquette, Michigan. Initially the Peter White Building, the White family commissioned Hare to build the theater using an rare, unconventional design for acoustics. The Nordic Theater later served as the world premiere venue for the 1959 film Anatomy of a Murder.
In 1937, Hare designed the Wisconsin Union Theater at the University of Wisconsin.
He was a Special Consultant to the Board of Design for the New York World's Fair in 1939 where he pushed for the Fair to be contemporary rather than colonial. His theme, "The Fair of the Future", was modified to "The World of Tomorrow."
He practiced as an architect until 1956 when began to devote himself full time to philosophy. He died in 1968.
Known Works
Rockefeller Center (1928)
Radio City Music Hall (1931)
Nordic Theater (1936)[2]
Wisconsin Union Theater (1939)
Dau-Kreinheder Hall (Valparaiso University) (1955)
References
- ^ http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=HTML&rgn=div1&byte=1849812852
- ^ "History". Nordic Theater. Retrieved 2018-10-30.