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Herbert H. Swinburne
Born(1912-12-06)December 6, 1912
DiedJune 29, 2001(2001-06-29) (aged 88)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationArchitect
PracticeNolen & Swinburne; Nolen–Swinburne & Associates; Nolen & Swinburne Partnership
Paley Hall at Temple University, designed by Nolen–Swinburne & Associates and completed in 1966.
Founders Hall of Bucks County Community College, completed in 1968.
The Hubert H. Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C., designed by Marcel Breuer & Associates and the Nolen & Swinburne Partnership and completed in 1977.

Herbert H. Swinburne FAIA (1912–2001) was an American architect in practice in Philadelphia from 1953 to 1974.

Life and career

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Herbert Hillhouse Swinburne was born December 6, 1912 in Los Angeles, and grew up in Winnemucca, Nevada. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with a B.Arch in 1934. In 1935 he was appointed supervising architect of the Nevada highway department, an office he filled until 1941.[1] In 1942 he returned east, working for Tuttle, Seelye, Place & Raymond in New York City on large-scale war work. He served in the United States Naval Reserve from 1943 to 1945.[2] After the war he went to work with architect Charles H. Bauer Jr. in Newark, New Jersey, and in 1949 returned to Philadelphia to work with architect James A. Nolen Jr. In 1953 they formed a partnership, known as Nolen & Swinburne, which would become well known for their large institutional building and master planning projects.[1] The firm was renamed Nolen–Swinburne & Associates in 1962[3] and upon the admission of Victor H. Kusch to the partnership in 1971 it was renamed the Nolen & Swinburne Partnership. The firm was dissolved in 1974, when both Nolen and Swinburne retired from practice.[4]

Major works completed by Nolen and Swinburne include master plans for Temple University in 1954 and 1966 and a master plan for Drexel University in 1964. In association with others they were associated with the design of the Pennsylvania State Office Building in Philadelphia and the Robert C. Weaver Federal Building and the Hubert H. Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C.[4]

Swinburne's public service began in 1964 when he was appointed to an advisory panel of the building research division of the National Bureau of Standards. From 1965 to 1967 he was a member of the advisory commission on construction to the Governor of Pennsylvania's Commission on Education, from 1966 to 1967 a member of the National Design Review Panel of the United States Navy, from 1966 to 1976 a member of the building research advisory board of the National Academy of Design and from 1967 to 1969 a member of the national advisory committee for the General Services Administration. In 1976 he was appointed to the first board of directors of the National Institute of Building Sciences.[5][2]

Swinburne joined the American Institute of Architects in 1947 as part of the Philadelphia chapter. In 1957 he was appointed to the committee on research for architecture, and became its chair in 1960. In 1961 he was elected a Fellow.[6]

Personal life

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Swinburne was married in 1937.[1] He died June 29, 2001 in Philadelphia.[2]

Architectural works

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Notes

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  1. ^ Designed in association with Carroll, Grisdale & Van Alen, Harbeson, Hough, Livingston & Larson and Ian McHarg.
  2. ^ a b Designed in association with Marcel Breuer & Associates.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Swinburne, Herbert Hillhouse" in American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1956): 548.
  2. ^ a b c Emily T. Cooperman, "Swinburne, Herbert Hillhouse," American Architects and Buildings, no date. Accessed January 15, 2023.
  3. ^ "Name Changes" in Progressive Architecture 43, no. 11 (November, 1962): 216–217.
  4. ^ a b "Nolen & Swinburne," Cultural Landscape Foundation, no date. Accessed January 15, 2023.
  5. ^ a b c d e f "Swinburne, Herbert Hillhouse" in American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1970): 899.
  6. ^ "Herbert Hillhouse Swinburne" in AIA Historical Directory of American Architects, no date. Accessed January 15, 2023.
  7. ^ a b c d e "Swinburne, Herbert Hillhouse" in American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1962): 690.
  8. ^ George E. Thomas, "St. Michael the Archangel Church", [Levittown, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-02-BU5. Last accessed: January 15, 2023.
  9. ^ "phttps://www.epiphanyofourlord.com/about-us About Us]," Epiphany of Our Lord Catholic Church, no date. Accessed January 15, 2023.
  10. ^ "The art of building for science" in Progressive Architecture (June, 1972): 96–99.
  11. ^ George E. Thomas and David B. Brownlee, Building America's First University: An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000)