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C.J.
"Pat" Paderewski Clarence Joseph "Pat" Paderewski was born on July 23, 1908 in Cleveland, Ohio. His family moved to Los Angeles in 1920. Following his graduation from Benjamin Franklin High School in Los Angeles (in 1926), Pat attended one year at UCLA and completed his BA in Architecture in 1932 at Cal Berkeley One year after moving to San Diego in 1935, Mr. Paderewski would garner 3rd prize in the National Design Competition of a Residence for Structural Clay Products (1936). Mr. Paderewski began teaching drafting, architecture and related subjects in 1939 for San Diego Unified School District. Between teaching Evening High School (1939-1944), War Training Program (1943-1944) and UC Extension (1944-1957) classes, C.J. Paderewski would define himself as more than an architect but a real contributor to San Diego. He opened his first office in 1944. In 1946 Mr. Paderewski assumed the responsibility (on behalf of the AIA) of "working with one of the San Diego Evening newspapers in furnishing an article each week, together with photographs or sketches, of a house designed by an architect." During a long career leading his firm with partners Delmar S. Mitchell and Louis A. Dean (Paderewski, Mitchell and Dean AIA Architects), Pat would stake claim on a number of "firsts". Pat was "the first architect to advocate the use of colors in elementary schools" he led the John J. Montgomery School in Otay to be the first school (in 1946) "in which interesting colors were used in interiors and exteriors." Recognized for designing the first school to utilize radiant heat (via hot water in the floor) in 1947 in San Marcos, Pat was an innovator early on. The firm would also establish the first pre-fabricated plywood wall and roof panel systems used in several schools to meet the economics of rapid construction (in 1948). C.J. Paderewski also secured many accolades for the first exterior all-glass elevator on the El Cortez Hotel (1956) and a forward-thinking Buckminster Fuller-esque geodesic dome on the Palomar College campus. In his 1957 FAIA sponsorship application, the San Diego Chapter of the AIA (at the time led by Chapter President Sim Bruce Richards) noted "It is his philosophy that an architect can, and should, contribute of himself at every possible opportunity, that his community may be a better place in which to live for himself and his neighbor. He is stron in the belief that good architecture provides the environment for children and adults which will result in an enlightened generation. He also believes that it is the architect's mission to preach the gospel of good architecture at every opportunity in order that an ever increasing percentage of our people will appreciate and demand good architecture." Over the years the firm employed Fred Livingstone, Fred Chilcott, Rich Albrecht, Olaf Oxford, Ed Pinoni, Ed Malone, Bob Jones, Walt Nelson, Bob Myrdal, George Markle, Don Innis, Dave Tennebaum, Art Hoelck, Delmar Mitchell, Louis Dean, Frank Stevenson, Luciano Zeccchin, Matt Plagwitz, Jack Madison, Don Goldman, Dan Perkins, Jack Carpenter, Bill Caldwell and many others. Read the obituary HERE. Partial Project List Anthony's Fish
Grotto (1960)
Anthony's Fish
Grotto (1960) Apartments Bank
of America (1962) Bank of America Central Elementary
School (1954) Chase Avenue
Elementary School Coronado City
Hall (1957) Coronado Municipal Pool (1964) Dabkovitch Building
(1961) Ducommun Metal
& Supply Co. (1954) El Cortez Hotel
Remodel (1956-57) Emory Elementary First Federal
(1963) Fletcher Hills Building (1957) General Hospital
for San Diego County, 1960 Hallahan, Tim Residence
(circa 1957) J.C. Penney Building John
J. Montgomery School (1946) La Jolla Coast
Apartments (1964)
Lutheran Congregational
Church (1968) Paderewski Residence
#1 (1955) Paderewski Residence
#2 (1960) Paderewski Residence
#3 (1980)
Palomar College
(1956-59) Pomerado Elementary
School (1960) Rohr Aircraft Coporation San Diego Blood Bank (1957) San Diego County
Medical Society (1957) San Diego International
Airport (1967) School (1947) Stardust Motor Hotel
State Division
of Highways Building (1953) St. Mary's Catholic Church (1958) St. Mary's Parochial School St. Paul's Manor
(1963) War Memorial
Building (1950) Wetherell, Mr & Mrs.
J.G. Residence (1955) Wherry Housing Project
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