Dean Vollendorf, Architect

Dean Bryant Vollendorf – 1929 – 2008

Education:

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

Academic Appointments:

1960 – 1963 – Professor of Architecture, College of Architecture, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 

Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 

University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina

Lectured in Naples, Rome, and Prague

1996 – Retrospective of his work, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina

1996 – Exhibitor and Lecturer when he lived at “Suntop,” Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona

Firms:

Edgar A. Stubenraush and Associates, Wisconsin

John Randal McDonald, Gainesville, Florida

Military Service:

Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska

Influences:

Vollendorf believed that Frank Lloyd Wright, Mie van der Rohe and Le Corbusier were the three icons of architecture.

Honors:

1956 – Pierson Prize for Outstanding Thesis, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

Vollendorf’s curving “Bayweep” design was New Home Guides’ best selling plan in the magazine’s history

Notable Works:

1960 – Shores Animal Hospital, NW 13th Street, Gainesville, Florida, 

1962 – Bejano Residence, West Hills Neighborhood, Gainesville, Florida                         

1965 – Vollendorf Residence, Norman, Oklahoma

Archives:

A body of his work is housed at Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma