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	Paul Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paul Williams is an English association football (soccer) player for Stoke City F.C. Paul Williams is an Australian rules football player for the Sydney Swans.
		Paul Williams is an American professor at American University and Director of the Public International Law and Policy Group.
		Paul Williams is currently a New York University (NYU) student who established P an' Di, a tech based company in New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Williams (244 words)

	Paul Williams (architect) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Williams became a certified architect in 1921, and the first certified African American architect west of the Mississippi.
		Williams famously remarked upon the bitter irony of the fact that most of the homes he designed, and whose construction he oversaw, were on parcels whose deeds included segregation covenants barring fls from purchasing them.
		Williams designed more than 2,000 private homes, most of which were in the Hollywood Hills and the Mid-Wilshire portion of Los Angeles (including his own home in the Mid-City district).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Williams_(architect) (863 words)

	Life & Times - Transcript - 02/14/06
		Paul Revere Williams was one of the foremost architects of the early twentieth century.
		Paul Williams went to a school that was predominantly white and Latino, so he never saw himself as a part of a group which could not succeed.
		Paul Williams built hundreds of homes for the rich and famous and became quite rich and famous himself along the way, but because of his race, he was never able to live in the neighborhoods he helped to create.
	www.kcet.org /lifeandtimes/archives/200602/20060214.php (3853 words)

	House With A History \| The Houses \| KNPB Online
		Williams was orphaned at the age of 4.
		Williams excelled at the Beaux Arts Institute of design, and graduated with a string of medals, awards and accomplishments.
		Paul Revere Williams left his mark on Nevada not only with his work but also with his strong personal character and his undying drive for success with what he loved most.
	www.knpb.org /productions/house/garvey_williams.asp (523 words)

	Paul Williams Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Paul Williams has composed many hit songs, has been an Academy Award nominee (and winner) in different musical categories, he has written film scripts and musicals, he has acted and also performed comedy.
		Paul Williams father was to be killed in a car crash.
		As well as his albums, Paul Williams has written scripts and music for a number of films and television programmes, as well as acting in others.
	members.aol.com /KevsWeb/Williams/pwbiog.htm (630 words)

	USC Events Calendar - Williams the Conqueror: The Legacy of Architect Paul Revere Williams
		Williams the Conqueror: The Legacy of Architect Paul Revere Williams
		Paul Revere Williams (1894-1980) was one of Southern California’s foremost architects, producing a remarkable number of buildings during a career that spanned nearly 60 years.
		During his career, Williams was awarded an American Institute of Architects (AIA) Award of Merit (1939, for his MCA building), the Omega Phi Psi Man of the Year Award (1951) and the Spingarn Medal (1953).
	www.usc.edu /calendar/events/20489.html (456 words)

	VIA Online: Paul Williams, Architect
		Williams conceived or reconceived such familiar icons of the Southern California good life as Perino’s, a 1950s hangout for the beautiful people, and Chasen’s, the Spago of its day, which he renovated in 1968.
		He was chief architect on the 400-unit Pueblo del Rio housing project in southeast LA In the 1940s he wrote two books about designing attractive, livable middle-class homes.
		For a fl architect, born in 1894 (Williams died in 1980), it was almost unbelievable.
	www.viamagazine.com /top_stories/articles/architecture99.asp (1478 words)

	Historical Exhibit
		Architects such as Richard Neutra saw public housing as "a practical means to vindicate theories of Modern Architecture by demonstrating its applicability to the accelerated pace of life brought about by the war.
		Williams had been appointed a commissioner of the National Board of Municipal Housing in 1933, and was a member of the Housing Commission of Los Angeles from 1933 through 1941.
		Williams was one of the first African Americans to join the American Institute of Architects and the very first to become a Fellow of the Institute.
	www.hacla.org /news_links/HistoricalExhibit/HistoricalExhibit.htm (3537 words)

	HDM_2_Bond
		Fittingly, Williams first received notice for his successful entries in small home competitions, his premiated schemes earning him a reputation in a design realm that was very important in Southern California and throughout the West at the time.
		Later in his career, Williams secured several commercial projects (matching Abele’s experience at Duke, Williams was not privileged to visit the addition to the Beverly Hills Hotel that he designed), along with some civic commissions that included a school in Harlem, New York City (1960), and a Los Angeles County Courthouse.
		Williams placed his enormous talents in service to the dreams of his clients, affluent and otherwise, creating architectural mirrors of the dynamic self-invention and popular cultural explosion taking place in his milieu.
	www.gsd.harvard.edu /research/publications/affiliated_publications/hdm/back_issues/2bond.html (3111 words)

	Black architect leaves his stamp on Nevada (printable version)
		Williams’ connection with wealthy whites during his 50 years of design earned him work on at least 15 designs in Nevada, five in Reno, including the Lear Theater.
		Williams’ granddaughter, Karen Hudson, has written two books about him, but said she was unaware of his northern Nevada connection.
		Orphaned at the age of 4, Williams was determined to shine.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=34065 (1193 words)

	USATODAY.com - Paul Revere Williams built on black history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In an era when architects can be as famous as rock stars, Paul Revere Williams may be the most acclaimed architect you've never heard of.
		He was the "architect to the stars," building houses for some of Hollywood's biggest names, such as Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Cary Grant, Groucho Marx and Frank Sinatra.
		Williams the Conqueror: The Legacy of Architect Paul Revere Williams is on view there through March 31.
	www.usatoday.com /life/lifestyle/2004-03-11-paul-revere-williams_x.htm (554 words)

	biography e paul williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Paul Revere Williams (1894-1980) was a celebrated architect and an African...
		Paul Williams has been writing about pop music for decades, never flagging in his enthusiasm or his...
		Paul Williams, Desert Heat, A Kind Of Hush, Markus 4, Headless Body in a Topless Bar, A Million to Juan, Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die, Phantom 2040:...
	www.biography-search.com /5/biography222.html (344 words)

	Architecture
		From his student days at the Polytechnic High School in Los Angeles, Williams aspired to be an architect, but was told, "Who ever heard of a Negro architect?" Williams worked his way through the University of California by teaching art until he became a certified architect in 1915.
		Williams worked for large architectural firms until he gained sufficient experience in all branches of his profession to open his own office.
		Julian Francis Abele was an African-American architect from Philadelphia.
	www.sis.pitt.edu /resources/diversity/naa/architecture.html (319 words)

	CLIPI Blog » Blog Archive » Escaping Demolition, Landmark Home by Early Black Architect Will Take to the ...
		Famed architect Paul Revere Williams was barred by restrictive covenants from living in the very homes he designed.
		Williams was fl, and in 1936, the year he completed the red brick English-country-style residence, African-Americans were barred by restrictive covenants and prevailing biases from owning property in the best parts of the city.
		Williams, a pre-eminent Southern California architect, lived instead in a modest house of his own design in Lafayette Square, one of the few upper-middle-class neighborhoods then open to fls.
	www.clipi.org /blog/archives/218 (1034 words)

	Williams, Paul Revere - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Williams, Paul Revere
		Williams was a prominent society architect who designed hundreds of elegant houses in period styles for wealthy California clients.
		Born in Los Angeles, California, he was educated at the University of Southern California and established an independent practice in 1923.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Williams,+Paul+Revere (120 words)

	Architects-Paul Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Williams was architect to the rich and famous in Southern California.
		Paul Williamsí original design for St. Jude Hospital in Memphis It was through these Hollywood connections that entertainer Danny Thomas came to know and admire Williams' work.
		Williams conceived the idea of five spokes radiating off a central core that Thomas likened to the star of St. Jude.
	www.memphisheritage.org /MHIHost/Architects-PaulWilliams.html (450 words)

	Black Legends
		Paul Williams aspired to be architect, but was told, "Whoever heard of a Negro architect?" Later, he said he found his race to be "an incentive to personal accomplishiment, an inspiring challenge.
		In a career that spanned almost 60 years, Williams was one of the foremost architects of southern California.
		Although most of Williams' firms' work was residential, he also planned thousands of small homes in developments throughout California and Nevada.
	www.angelfire.com /ca/ebonyfire/special.html (2557 words)

	Paul Williams, Architect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Paul Revere Williams (1894-1980) was one of the foremost architects of southern California, producing an almost incredible number of buildings over a career which spanned almost sixty years.
		Among the Los Angeles buildings and projects designed (completely or in part) by Williams are the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles International Airport, Hollywood YMCA, Sunset Plaza Apartments, and the Los Angeles County Court House.
		Among the buildings outside the city designed by Williams are: the United Nations Building in Paris, the MCA Building in Beverly Hills, and Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/ethnicstudies/africanamerican/williams (112 words)

	Robert W
		Though Paul R. Williams is the 1953 architect of record, once more the Neg Dec attempts to discredit the facts to bolster its conclusions by dismissing Williams’ involvement.
		Williams had also done several remodels where he would, as was done by most architects of the time, strip off ornamentation to create a new, clean, modern look for post-WWII rehabilitation projects.
		Williams’ celebrity relationships and his fame as a modern-style architect made him a natural choice to remodel, and hopefully reinvigorate, the Florentine Gardens.
	www.hollywoodheritage.org /preservation/Florentine_NegDec.html (2975 words)

	Steve Friess - Home Page
		Its distinctive, swooping style, similar to the famed terminal at Los Angeles International Airport that also was designed by pioneering architect Paul Revere Williams, evokes the mid-20th Century glamor of the Las Vegas Strip when Frank, Dino and Sammy roamed and crooned.
		Architect Paul Revere Williams was born in Los Angeles in 1894.
		Licensed as an architect in 1921, he joined the Southern California chapter of the American Institute of Architects two years later as its first African-American member.
	www.stevefriess.com /archive/chicagotribune/laconcha.htm (836 words)

	Cap Wigington
		And his achievements, both as an architect and as a leader in the state's African American community, are all the more significant given the limitations of the times in which he lived.
		Between 1915 and 1947, in the Office of the City Architect of St. Paul, he designed an array of schools, fire stations, park structures, and municipal buildings that continue to define the city's landscape.
		PAUL CLIFFORD LARSON is an architectural historian and author of several books, including Minnesota Architect: The Life & Work of Clarence H. Johnston and The Spirit of H. Richardson on the Midland Prairies.
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	Thomas Sowell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		RECENTLY I WAS SURPRISED to learn of a highly successful fl architect whose career began back in the 1920s and of a fl engineer and inventor from even further back, in the 1870s.
		He also designed churches and other structures, and was part of the team of architects who designed the modernistic theme building at the Los Angeles International Airport.
		Paul Williams was candid enough to say that cultural deficiencies within the fl community played a role in the economic and social lags of fls.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /cols/sowell112299.asp (783 words)

	African American Registry: Paul Williams was a brilliant architect!
		Williams promised preliminary plans within 24 hours of their first meeting.
		Before World War II he was known as the architect to the stars, designing Beverly Hills' I., the home of CBS founder William Paley and over 3,000 other buildings in California.
		Williams served on the Los Angeles City Planning Commission and the city's Municipal Housing Commission.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/1778/Paul_Williams_was_a_brilliant_architect (571 words)

	VMFA: What's New Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hudson is the author of "The Will and the Way: Paul R. Williams, Architect," published in 1994 by Rizzoli Books for Children, as well as the monograph "Paul R. Williams, Architect," published in 1993 by Rizzoli.
		Hudson's talk, "Paul Williams, Architect: Legacy of Style," will be at 6:30 pm in the museum's auditorium.
		It was Williams who remade the Beverly Hills Hotel in the mid-1940s, giving it its signature pink and green colors, adding the Crescent Wing, and turning the Polo Lounge and the pool area into favorite haunts for Hollywood royalty.
	www.vmfa.state.va.us /hudson.html (350 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Suppressing the Good News by Thomas Sowell
		Let us begin with Paul Williams, a fl man who became an architect in southern California in the 1920s, despite warnings from others that there was no market for a fl architect.
		Few of his own people had the money to hire an architect and whites would prefer to hire a white architect.
		The 1920s were, after all, one of the periods of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and its spread outside the South.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=3500 (732 words)

	PLENARY SESSION
		Karen E. Hudson, granddaughter of Paul R Williams and keeper of the Williams Archive, next spoke eloquently on this important fl Southern California architect and designer in a talk entitled An Architect in Hollywood: Paul R. Williams.
		Williams, actively discouraged by teachers in following architecture as a career because of his race, ignored them and created a major career for himself in Southern California, designing in a number of styles.
		Hudson is the author of two works on Paul R. Williams,, a children’s book entitled The Will and the Way: Paul R. Williams, (l994), and a monograph for adults, Paul R.
	www.arlisna.org /news/conferences/2001/proceedings/plenary.html (534 words)

	DVMs expose risks to hiring offsite architects - DVM
		So when this small animal DVM resolved to build his dream hospital, he hired a well-known veterinary architect and vowed to leave noise, odor, ventilation and traffic flow to the expert.
		Inundated by complaints from other dissatisfied clients, Williams' architect filed bankruptcy, abandoned his project and left the practitioner scrambling as his loans started rolling in.
		Howard's case against his veterinary architect, seeking damages for negligence and cost overrun, was appealed to the Vermont Supreme Court, but in the end, the defendant won.
	www.dvmnewsmagazine.com /dvm/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=46985 (677 words)

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