Bruce McCarty

McCarty attended Princeton University in the early 1940s, where he studied sculpture under noted sculptor and boxer, Joe Brown.

[2] Following the outbreak of World War II, he left Princeton and joined the US Army Air Force.

On April 5, 1945 McCarty married Julia Elizabeth Hayes of Knoxville in Santa Rosa, California.

He, Elizabeth, and son Hayes spent several weeks during 1948 driving around Michigan and Wisconsin, seeking out houses designed by Wright.

In 1953, McCarty designed a concrete house, sponsored by Southern Cast Stone and published in several national magazines.

During the 1950s and 60s, the firm also designed a number of custom houses, in addition to commercial and public projects such as the Knoxville Civic Auditorium and Coliseum (in joint venture with Morton/Sweetser) and the Humanities Social Sciences Complex at the University of Tennessee.

Partner Robert Church died in 1972 while serving as acting dean of the University of Tennessee School of Architecture, and the firm thus became McCarty Bullock Holsaple (MBH).

[3] The firm also oversaw planning for Knoxville's waterfront, and designed expansions for Neyland Stadium and McGhee Tyson Airport.