Michael Hare (architect)
Michael Meredith Hare (January 17, 1909 – August 30, 1968) was an American architect based in New York City who promoted modernist design. He studied at Yale and earned a degree from Columbia University in 1935. He married Jane P. Jopling in 1931, and they had three children. Hare served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II.
Early in his career he worked for the New York firm Corbett and MacMurray under Harvey Wiley Corbett, contributing to major projects such as Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall.
Notable works and moments:
- Nordic Theater, Marquette, Michigan (1936): a single-screen cinema with an innovative acoustics-focused design.
- Wisconsin Union Theater at the University of Wisconsin (1937).
- Dau-Kreinheder Hall, Valparaiso University (1955).
In 1954, Hare was appointed by the President's Commission to design the U.S. embassy in Honduras. While in Honduras, he studied philosophy, psychology, and psychical phenomena, writing several books on these subjects in 1966 and 1968.
He died on August 30, 1968, in Cambridge, England.
Selected associated projects: Rockefeller Center (1928) and Radio City Music Hall (1931) as part of Corbett and MacMurray; Nordic Theater; Wisconsin Union Theater; Dau-Kreinheder Hall.
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