Ralph Rapson
Ralph Rapson (born 1914) is a modernist
architect born in
Alma, Michigan. He was educated at the
University of Michigan and
Cranbrook Academy of Art in
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan under
Eliel Saarinen. Rapson led the New Bauhaus School in
Chicago, and practiced in
Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Stockholm, and
Paris before becoming head of the architecture school at the
University of Minnesota in
1954.
His building projects include
He also designed furniture and accessories, and had his own furniture line in the
1950s.