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by: Abrams,
Harold |
Robert Mosher & Roy Drew Robert Mosher, raised in Los Angeles attended The Art Center School, USC and University of Washington (Seattle) where he majored in architecture. Drafted by the US Army and lated discharged on medical disability, Mosher completed his degree in Seattle as World War 2 came to a close. Returning to San Diego, Mosher worked for Myron Hunt & H.C. Chambers (where he met roy Drew in 1946) on several projects in San Diego for the US Navy and Marine Corps. Having married Chambers' secretary, Ann Hoover, Robert returned to L.A. to study for his state architectural exams and an 8-month stint with Harwell Hamilton Harris. Roy Drew, raised in Pasadena, graduated with a bachelor's degree in Graphic Arts from Stanford in 1936 and a Masters in Architecture from Yale in 1941. As WW2 was enveloping the world, Drew gained experience working for Myron Hunt and Henry J. Kaiser. Following his service in the US Navy (1942-1946), Drew rejoined his architecture career where he met Robert Mosher in Paul Haynes' Los Angeles office. Following the completion of his exam, Mr. Mosher returned to his family in La Jolla and work for William Templeton Johnson. Robert's father, Jack Mosher, purchased the Green Dragon Colony in 1944 which following Robert's leaving Templeton Johnson's office became a project to design buildings for the property including his own office. As house commissions started pouring in for clients like Rosco Hazard, Harry Rollins, George Wick and Richard Compton. As the firm slowly grew, Mosher invited Drew to stay in a Green Dragon apartment for 6-month trial period. By 1948, Roy Drew had sold the house he designed for himself in La Canada, moved his family to La Jolla and established the firm Mosher and Drew, Architects. Mosher and Drew, Architects engaged San Diegans in their brand of humanist/modernist architecture. Designs for Gordon Gray, Herbert Kunzel, James Copley drew attention from several publications including House Beautiful where Robert Mosher worked while on sabbatical from the firm in New York City (1955-57). *Between 1958 and 1968, in addition to the residential work which was the basis of their early practice, they were retained to design larger projects. For Roy, these included: the Namara Inn in Del Mar, the Whittemore Office Building in La Jolla, Decatur Elementary School, the La Jolla branch of the Bank of America, Muirlands Junior High School, Torrey Pines Elementary School, The Children's Home Society of California, the La Jolla Federal Saving and Loan main office building, the La Jolla branch of San Diego Trust & Savings Bank, Saint Dunstan's Episcopal Church, Vacation Village hotel, La Jolla Senior High School, the San Diego USO, and Bentham and Cummings Halls, both at The Bishop's School. *For Robert, projects included the first alterations and additions to the La JOlla Art Center (later to become the La Jolla Museum of Art); the San Diego Children's Home; the Married Students Apartments, the Residential Apartments Phase Two, the Master Plan for John Muir College, and the Applied Physics and Mathematics Building at the University of California, San Diego; the Aztec Center (Student Union) at San Diego State University; the San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, West Wing (now the San Diego Museum of Art); the Bank of La Jolla Building (now the Wall Street Building); All Soul's Episcopal Church in Point Loma; an office building for Coldwell Banker in San Diego; the Kellogg West Conference Center at California Polytechnic University, Pomona; the Golden Valley Office Complex in Mission Valley; the La Jolla Branch of the California First Bank (now the Union Bank of California); and the Sherwood Auditorium, expanded galleries, and a new entrance for the La Jolla Museum of Art (now the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego); During this period, Robert also served as Design Consultant for the San Diego/Coronado Bridge. Partial List of Early Projects All Soul’s
Episcopal Church (1965) Andrews, Stockton
Residence (1954) Applied Physics
and Mathematics (1966) Aztec Center,
Student Union Building (1964) Baily, Edward
Residence (1949) Bank of America
(1960) Bank of La Jolla
(1964) Borchers, Jack
Residence (1952) Bowman, John
C. Residence (1954) Carter, Armistead
Pool House & Garden Shelter (1955) Compton, Richard
Residence (1948) Coon, Thurlow
Residence (1954) E.F. Hutton and
Co. Office Building (1960) E.F. Hutton and
Co. Office Building (1967) First Baptist
Church of La Jolla (1957) Geisel, Ted Residence
Additions/Alterations (1964) Genevieve Ferguson
Art Gallery (1948) Gerard and Sands
European Handcrafts Shop (1948) Hazard, Rosco
Residence (1948) Irwin, James
Residence (1954) Koehler, Otto
Residence (1949) Kunzel, Herbert
Residence (1951) La Jolla Art
Center Alterations and Additions (1958) La Jolla Federal
Savings and Loan (1962) Lebenhouse Residence Married
Student Apartments (1961) Matthews Campus
Art Gallery (1965) McNarney, Joseph
Residence Interiors (1958) Mosher and Drew
Offices (1957) Mosher, Jack
Residence (Jack-O-Lantern House Remodel, 1946) Mosher Offices
(Jack, Robert) (1947) Mosher, Jack
Residence (1950) Mosher, Robert
Residence (1950) Office Building
for Robert Golden (1969) Reagan, Bruce
Residence (1954) Retail Building
for Anson Lewis (1954) Richards, Trumbull
Residence (1961) Rollins, Harry
Residence (1948) Paul F. Scott
Stationery Shop (1949) San Diego Children’s
Home (1958) San Diego –
Coronado Bridge (1965) San Diego Fin
Arts Gallery, West Wing (1964) Sherwood Auditorium
at the La Jolla Museum of Art (1959) Small, Luciene
K. Residence (1959) St. Peter’s
Episcopal Church, Chancel Window (1958) Student Apartments
(1965) Thiele, John
Residence (1960) Tuttle, William
Residence (1952) Tweeds and Weeds
British Clothiers (1949) Tyson, D.R. Residence
(1958) Van Dorn, William
Residence (1950) Warwick’s
Books Front Façade (1953) Whitsett Millinery
Shop (1947) Wick, George Residence
(1948) Wohlford, Burnet
C. Residence Additions (1949) Young, Richard
Residence (1959) |
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Photographs from the collection of Robert Mosher
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