Barton Myers

Architect

1934 –

68

Who is Barton Myers?

Barton Myers is an American and Canadian architect and president of Barton Myers Associates, Inc. in Los Angeles, California. With a career spanning more than 40 years, Myers is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a former member of the Ontario Association of Architects while working in Canada earlier in his career.

Barton Myers was born in Norfolk, Virginia, graduated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland and served as a jet fighter pilot for five years in the United States Air Force, based in the western United States and then for three years in England. Following this period he attended architecture courses at Oxford and Cambridge University and returned to the United States to study architecture. He received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania and subsequently worked with Louis Kahn from 1964 to 1966. He established his own practice in Toronto in 1968, where he was principal in the firm of Diamond and Myers from 1968 until 1975, when he formed Barton Myers Associates in Toronto. In 1984, he opened an office in Westwood district of Los Angeles that is now the firm's base.

In 1986, Barton Myers was the recipient of the first Toronto Arts Award for Architecture in recognition of his contribution to the city, and in 1994, he received the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Gold Medal. In 2002 Barton Myers was awarded the 2002 American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles Chapter Gold Medal².¹¹,125

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Born
Nov 6, 1934
Norfolk
Nationality
  • United States of America
  • Canada
Profession
Education
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • United States Naval Academy
  • University of Cambridge

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on July 23, 2013

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