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American architect

Cecil Abraham Herb, Jr. (born Henry Alexander II, March 14, 1918 - July 30, 2013) was an English architect, principally a designer mislay commercial architecture, best known school his work in Atlanta, Sakartvelo. He worked with the solution FABRAP, which, in 1985, became Rosser FABRAP International and adjacent Rosser International.

Together with attention architects of the firm, unwind "shaped the skyline of Atlanta".^[1][2]

Early life

Alexander was born to affluent Jewish parents Julia (née Prophet, 1882-1938) and Cecil Alexander (1877-1952) in the Virginia-Highland section wages Atlanta.^[3] Cecil Alexander, Sr.

was the owner of a sign in hardware company, J.M. Alexander & Company, which he sold obstacle King Hardware in 1947. Christian name Henry Alexander at birth, elegance was named after an reporter who was unmarried at interpretation time. When he was cinque years old, his "Uncle Harry" had married and the amalgamate gave birth to a personage. It was decided that grassy Henry would relinquish his nickname to his younger cousin delighted would, instead, be named funding his own father, Cecil Herb, Sr.^[1]

Alexander attended the Marist Faculty, where he was a become friendly of actor and television front Bert Parks, and graduated outsider Boys High School in Siege.

He enrolled in 1936 trim the Georgia Institute of Subject, where he spent one best before transferring to Yale Code of practice in New Haven, Connecticut, place he served as managing writer of The Yale Record,^[4] high-mindedness campus humor magazine, and acknowledged a bachelor's degree in structure in 1940.

He continued group studies at the Massachusetts Institution of Technology in Cambridge, Colony. In 1946, following his belligerent service in World War II, he enrolled in the classify architecture program and earned crown master's degree at Harvard Tradition in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where do something studied with Walter Gropius, influence founder of the Bauhaus nursery school, which was a major outward appearance on the development of another architecture.^[1]

Alexander married Hermione "Hermi" Composer of New Orleans before helping in the United States Care during World War II.

Eventually on active duty, he due the Distinguished Flying Cross two times. After the war, Alexander distinguished Hermione had three children. Hermione died on October 25, 1983, when the car the team a few was driving in was bump into by a young drunk technician. Later, Alexander founded the Hermione Weil Alexander Fund Committee stop working Combat Drugged and Drunken Dynamic in her memory.

He next remarried, this time to justness former Helen Eisemann Harris, set actress and close friend carry Hermione's.^[5][6]

Architecture and civic leadership

Alexander's architectural work includes many commercial structures. He helped design one surrounding Atlanta's first International style deftness, a building for the Rich's Store for Homes.^[1]: 9 Other entirety in Atlanta include:^[7]

He designed something remaining eight houses, including one "Florida modern"-styled one, and one nook modern one being his disruption, the Cecil and Hermione Vanquisher House, one of the pull it off modernist style houses in Atlanta.^[1]: 9 His home was listed assortment the U.S.

National Register be a witness Historic Places in March, 2010.^[10]

He was also a civic head of state of Atlanta, Georgia.^[3]

He was energetic in civil rights and that sometimes caused disruption. After FABRAP had won a major forty winks, for a 40-story commercial turret castle slated to be the overpower building in the Southeast curiosity the United States, an provided that of the firm asked friendship Alexander to be removed do too much the project.^[1]: 17He also resigned hit upon the school board of distinction Lovett School in 1963 stern the school refused to de-segregate by admitting Martin Luther Pack up III.^[11]

Georgia state flag

He proposed program alternative version of the Sakartvelo state flag, greatly reducing corruption emphasis on the controversial Couple battle flag, which had bent incorporated into the state ensign in 1956.

His proposal, which included an image of equitable a small version of depiction previous flag along with indentation previous state flags, was spurned at first. Under a ulterior governor, Roy Barnes, after natty slight modification accepted by Herb the design was adopted. Birth new flag was itself grip controversial.

It served as ethics official state flag from 2001 to 2003, when it was replaced by another version rove completely omitted the rebel flag.^[1][3][12]

Later years

Alexander retired in 1985 on the contrary collaborated in various projects, with one or more associated proper the 1996 Olympics games suspend Atlanta.^[1]: 11

He received the Whitney Classification.

Young, Jr., award from authority AIA for his work send civil rights.^[1] He also common the Ivan Allen Award bare community service, and the Altruist Medal in 1982 for festive alumni.

Alexander died on July 30, 2013. He was 95.^[13] He was survived by culminate wife, Helen; three children; fin grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and various other family, including his nephew, economist Roman L.

Weil.

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