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 George NelsonGeorge Nelson (1908–1986) was an American architect and designer, and one of the founders of American modernism.
Nelson graduated from high-school in Hartford, Connecticut in 1924 and then attended architecture school at Yale. He began working as a drafter with a local architecture firm during his final year of college, and was subsequently hired as a Teacher’s Assistant at Yale while working on his second bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts. While preparing for the Paris Prize competition, Nelson entered the Rome Prize contest and won, enabling him to spend a year in Rome with a stipend to study architecture. His later collaboration with other important American designers of the period helped to solidify his stature as one of the most influential designers of the American modernist movement.
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