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	Welton Becket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Welton Becket (1902-1969) was an architect who designed many of the most famous buildings in Hollywood and Los Angeles, California.
		Becket's extensive list of credits includes the Theme Building at LAX, The Capitol Tower, the Cinerama Dome, the Los Angeles Music Center (including the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion), the master plan for Century City, the Beverly Hilton, and the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
		Becket settled in Los Angeles in 1933 and formed a partnership with his University of Washington classmate Walter Wurdeman and Angelean architect Charles F. Plummer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Welton_Becket (419 words)

	The Los Angeles Music Center - Welton Becket and Associates
		Becket settled in Los Angeles permanently in 1933, forming a partnership with established Los Angeles architect Charles F. Plummer and Washington classmate Walter Wurdeman.
		Welton Becket was named master planner for UCLA in 1948 and continued as supervising architect for the campus until 1968.
		Welton Becket staff either designed, or had custom designed, all of the interior furnishings and fixtures, carpeting, signage, lighting fixtures, restaurant china and flatware, and even the menus and promotional brochures, announcements, and programs for the facility.
	www.musiccenter.org /wb.html (653 words)

	Welton Becket: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Welton Becket (1902-1969) was an architect (architect: Someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)) who designed many of the most famous buildings in Hollywood (Hollywood: The film industry of the United States) and Los Angeles, California (Los Angeles, California: more facts about this subject).
		Becket's extensive list of credits includes the Theme Building at LAX (LAX: los angeles international airport, is the primary airport serving los angeles, california...
		Becket settled in Los Angeles in 1933 and formed a partnership with his University of Washington (University of Washington: A university in Seattle, Washington) classmate Walter Wurdeman and Angelean architect Charles F. Plummer.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/welton_becket (620 words)

	Recent Past Preservation Network
		Welton Becket was born in Seattle, Washington in 1902.
		In 1929 Becket began his architectural career as a draftsman at a small Los Angeles firm, and in 1933 he formed a partnership with his Washington classmate Walter Wurdeman.
		At the time of Becket's death in 1969, Welton Becket and Associates was the largest architectural office in the world.
	www.recentpast.org /people/becket.html (866 words)

	Becket v. Welton Becket & Associates (1974) 39 CA3d 815
		Plaintiff is the son of Welton Becket, now deceased, the owner of all the outstanding shares of stock in Welton Becket and Associates, a corporate architectural firm.
		Upon the death of Welton Becket, plaintiff was appointed co-executor of the estate and became a member of the board of directors of the corporation succeeding his father.
		Defendant MacDonald Becket is the president and chief executive officer of Welton Becket and Associates.
	online.ceb.com /calcases/CA3/39CA3d815.htm (2023 words)

	Welton Becket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Becket's extensive list of credits includes the at LAX, The Capitol Tower, the Cinerama Dome, the Los Angeles Music Center (including the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion), the master plan for Century City, the, and the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
		Becket settled in Los Angeles in 1933 and formed a partnership with his University of Washington classmate and Angelean architect.
		The successor firm Wurdeman and Becket went on to design Pasadena (1944) and a couple of corporate headquarters.
	www.hermosabeach.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Welton_Becket (503 words)

	History
		Welton Becket and Associates, one of Southern California’s leading architectural firms, was hired to submit in March of 1958 a financial analysis of Century City for possible self-development.
		Becket, born in Seattle, Washington in 1902, received an architecture degree from the University of Washington in 1927, also studying at the famed Ecole des Beaux Arts.
		Becket’s fingerprints were everywhere, including the two water fountains constructed along Avenue of the Stars, the Automobile Club of Southern California’s office building and a joint-venture with I.M. Pei in designing the The Century Tower Apartments, Century City’s first major residential project.
	www.centurycitycc.com /community/history.htm (4588 words)

	calendarlive.com: L.A.'s invisible builder
		By 1969, Becket's company was among the largest architecture firms in the world, with more than 400 employees and building credits from Havana to Cairo (Hiltons) to Warsaw (a U.S. embassy) to the 1964 World's Fair in New York (for which he designed the exhibits of Ford and General Electric).
		Becket's granddaughter Alisa, who was born the year the architect died, recalled that when she was little, "it seemed like we'd never go across town without there being at least a few of my grandfather's buildings along the way.
		Alisa Becket, who manages travel programs for the Museum of Contemporary Art, eagerly ticks off her favorite structures: the Pan-Pacific Auditorium; the Pasadena Bullocks; and the McCulloch House in Rancho Mirage, built in the mid-'50s for the popularizer of the personal chainsaw, who went on to import the London Bridge to Arizona.
	calendarlive.com /galleriesandmuseums/cl-wk-cover6mar06,0,5398360.story (2013 words)

	Becket (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Camp Becket, a summer camp in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
		Becket, a Tony Award-winning play about Thomas à Becket, written in French by Jean Anouilh.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Becket_(disambiguation) (99 words)

	Welcome to South Lake Avenue: Pasadena's Destination of Distinction: History
		This "store of tomorrow" was designed by renowned architect, Welton Becket and appealed to the "carriage trade" arriving by automobile.
		An in-house collection of Becket’s work is housed in the Architecture and Design Collection at the University Art Museum at UC Santa Barbara, (805) 893-2724.
		A published book is also available, Total Design: Architecture of Welton Becket by William Hunt, 1972 McGraw, available at amazon.co.uk.
	www.southlakeavenue.org /history.html (444 words)

	USC Trojan Family Magazine - Autumn 2000: In Support: New Designs on Education
		Becket have endowed two professorships – one in the School of Architecture, devoted to community design and educational facilities, and one in the USC Rossier School of Education, devoted to governance and professional practice in public schools.
		The first holder of the Diane and MacDonald Becket Professorship in Edu-cational Governance is Priscilla “Penny” Wohlstetter, founding director of USC’s Center on Educational Governance and a professor of educational policy, planning and administration.
		former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Welton Becket and Associates, is an alumnus of the School of Architecture.
	usc.edu /dept/pubrel/trojan_family/autumn00/insupport/education.html (514 words)

	Owners seek permission to renovate 'push-button paradise' / Rancho Mirage council delays decision on alteration of ...
		Walter and Karen Sousa testified that earlier renovations radically changed the home created by architect Welton Becket for power-tool magnate Robert McCulloch and that their plan would "put the house back" closer to what it had been.
		The most impassioned testimony in favor of denying the couple's appeal came from Alisa Becket, granddaughter of Welton Becket and an employee of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
		Welton Becket is well known for his commercial buildings, but the McCulloch house is one of his few remaining residential works, his granddaughter noted.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/15/HO146183.DTL (874 words)

	Welton Becket and Associates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Called "L.A.'s Invisible Builder" by the Los Angeles Times, Welton Becket was a pioneer of modern architecture, and one of Los Angeles' most influential architects, being a major key player in introducing modern architecture to Los Angeles.
		Starting in the 1950s, his firm single-handedly tripled the number of buildings on the UCLA campus in Westwood over the span of a decade, giving the old Renaissance-Revival campus a sleek new look of brick and steel.
		Starting in the 1960s, Becket peppered the Los Angeles area with sleek, minimalist International Style buildings, which would come to define the look of L.A. for nearly three decades.
	www.emporis.com /en/cd/cm?id=101477 (167 words)

	drowning in culture: The Distraction Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		You can hardly shoot a spitball in this town without it splatting against a building that Welton Becket had his hand in…and yet, few under say, 50, have heard of him.
		From the Streamline 1930's through the Swingin' 1960's, architect Welton Becket (first with his partner Walter Wurdeman, and later with his own firm of Welton Becket and Associates) visualized and realized a good chunk of what we know as modern, civic Los Angeles.
		His family, former associates, scholars, and fans are gathering for: a) an event at the Cinerama Dome on Tuesday, March 4th, and b) a tour of a few buildings on Saturday, March 8th.
	www.drowninginculture.com /features/WeltonBecketOpener.htm (242 words)

	Behavioral Walking: Welton Becket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Because the behavioral description is posed as a network of modules with floating point communication, low-level learning and numerical optimization techniques can be applied to aid the user in developing an adequate set of parameters for the behaviors.
		In [5], Becket uses gradient search and proposes to use a genetic optimization routine for finding optimal weights given a user-defined fitness function.
		This use of optimization addresses one of primary problems with designing behavioral or reactive systems - arbitration among competing behaviors to decide which gets control of the effectors rapidly becomes too complex for the agent designer.
	hms.upenn.edu /hms_article/section3_16.html (271 words)

	Federal Center, Los Angeles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Los Angeles Federal Center, prepared for the General Services Administration by Welton Becket Associates, no date.
		Text of Presentation on Metropolitan Detention Center by Ed Carfagno, Welton Becket Associates, May 1, 1985.
		Becket Conference Report No. 10, January 26, 27, 1987, re: selection of artist(s) for Art-in-Architecture Program.
	www.publicartinla.com /CivicCenter/federal_center_bib.html (277 words)

	ELLERBE BECKET
		Ellerbe Becket has offices in Washington, D.C.: Kansas City, Mo.; San Francisco; Greenville, S.C.; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; and Cairo, Egypt
		Eighty years later, the company acquired Welton Becket to form Ellerbe Becket.
		Ellerbe Becket provides architecture, construction, engineering, environmental graphics, and interiors services.
	ecmweb.com /news/electric_ellerbe_beckett/index.html (55 words)

	KQED \| The California Report: L.A. Celebrates Welton Becket, Influential Architect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The California Report: L.A. Celebrates Welton Becket, Influential Architect
		For more than three decades, the firm Welton Becket and Associates designed one of a kind buildings that forever changed the California landscape.
		In May, Los Angeles celebrated the centennial of the famed architect's birth.
	www.kqed.org /epArchive/R312261630/c (88 words)

	KQED \| The California Report: L.A. Celebrates Architect Welton Becket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The California Report: L.A. Celebrates Architect Welton Becket
		For three decades, Southern California-based architect Welton Becket designed one-of-a-kind buildings that forever changed the California landscape.
		Los Angeles is celebrating the centennial of the famed architect's birth.
	www.kqed.org /epArchive/R305021630/g (79 words)

	LAC Modern Committee - Educational Events
		In March 2003, the Modern Committee presented a salute to the legendary Los Angeles architectural firm Welton Becket and Associates and its founder Welton Becket.
		The following weekend capped off the celebration with a docent-led tour of several of Becket's classic buildings, including the pristine 1964 Music Center Complex downtown and the lavish interiors of the recently refurbished Bullock's (Now Macy's) Pasadena.
		The Modern Committee has also conducted informal tours exclusively for Modcom members of such diverse sites as Glendale, Palm Springs, The Pomona Valley, 'Tikiland,' Terminal Island, Palos Verdes/South Bay, Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village, San Gabriel Garden Centers, Knott's Berry Farm, and Tomorrowland.
	www.modcom.org /events.shtml (913 words)

	Find in a Library: Total design; architecture of Welton Becket and Associates
		Total design; architecture of Welton Becket and Associates
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	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/24d1a763dd2b94aa.html (55 words)

	PreserveLA - Historic Preservation in Los Angeles - Welton Beckett Building Lost
		Modcom reports the apparent loss of the former headquarters building of architect Welton Becket and Associates located at 10000 Santa Monica Boulevard in Century City.
		Designed by Welton Beckett and completed in 1960, the four-story building featured a rooftop pavilion, a reflecting pool with fountains, and an incredible 734 foot mosaic band course by artist John Smith that wrapped around all four sides of the building.
		If you have a comment, or would like to post a link or article, please use the online form at: http://www.preservela.com/contact.html
	www.preservela.com /archives/000450.html (174 words)

	References
		Justine Cassell, Catherine Pelachaud, Norman Badler, Mark Steedman, Brett Achorn, Welton Becket, Brett Douville, Scott Prevost, and Matthew Stone.
		Animated conversation: Rule-based generation of facial expression gesture and spoken intonation for multiple conversational agents.
		Hyeongseok Ko, Barry D. Reich, Welton Becket, and Norman I. Badler.
	www.cis.upenn.edu /~hms/hms_article/bibliography3_27.html (606 words)

	Tom Otterness, New World
		10) Conference Report No. 29, from Welton Becket Associates, dated October 29, 1987.
		24) Letter from Don Kohler, Welton Becket Associates, to Robert Falls, CRSS, January 24, 1989, re: request name and experience of sub-contractor providing artwork pre-cast panels.
		29) Memorandum from Dale Lanzone to Robert Megnaghi re: attached April 25, 1989, letter from Tom Otterness to David Wysocky of Ellerbe Becket re: changes to plans to accommodate frieze and base for sculpture in fountain.
	www.publicartinla.com /CivicCenter/new_world_bib.html (811 words)

	Jack LISP-API and PaT-Nets: Welton Becket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Next: Behavioral Walking: Welton Up: The Center for Human Previous: Sensor-Based Navigation: Barry
		The Jack Lisp Application Programming Interface (Lisp-API) provides a consistent, well-documented, protected interface to Jack functionality for developers and users of Jack [6].
		PaT-Nets are currently being used as part of the gesture and facial animation [8] project and the behavioral walking and terrain reasoning projects [29][18] projects.
	www.cis.upenn.edu /~hms/hms_article/section3_15.html (196 words)

	Norma Sklarek
		It was truly a rewarding experience and prepared me for the challenges I would face with the next firm I joined."
		After leaving the Gruen firm, Sklarek joined Welton Becket Associates as a Vice President, serving as Project director for Passenger Terminal One, accommodating 10 million annual passengers at Los Angeles International Airport.
		Sklarek recalls, "I learned a lot from the Terminal One Project.
	nj.essortment.com /normasklarek_rqbo.htm (1413 words)

	"Eagle Rock: Where land use planning is a contact sport"
		LA CONSERVANCY EVENT -- BUILT BY BECKET: A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION -- MARCH 4
		On the evening of Tuesday, March 4, 2003 the Los Angeles Conservancy's Modern Committee will present a salute to the legendary Los Angeles architecture firm Welton Becket and Associates and its founder Welton Becket.
		The firm's indelible mark on the Los Angeles landscape includes such icons as Capitol Records, the Music Center, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Bullock's Pasadena, the Beverly Hilton and Century City.
	www.tera90041.org /archives/elett2-13-03.htm (2177 words)

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