Gregory Ain (1908-1988)

Ernst Residence (1962)

Gregory Ain graduated from the School of Architecture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 1928. He worked with Rudolph Schindler and Richard Neutra. In 1932 Ain was Schindler’s draftsman in one of the studios at his Kings Road home and studio.

Alongside Harwell Hamilton Harris, Ain worked on drawings and models for Neutra’s Rush City Air Terminal Project, Ring Plan School Project, and Lehigh Cement Airport Competition as well as projects Neutra planned on presenting in Europe at the CIAM meeting. (1930).

With Neutra traveling the globe, Ain began designing on his own in the evenings in 1929. Between 1930-35, Ain helped prepare working drawings for the EW Pottle Residence, VDL Research House, William Beard Residence, Joseph Kun House and others.

Ain established his own identity as a building designer in 1935 with several commissions. Ain drew alone and collaborated with others (with Harwell Hamilton Harris on the Moss Residence and Hunter Residence) for months before his first built project emerged – the Charles Edwards Residence (1936).

Gregory Ain built his first hillsi