Herb Greene (architect)

Herb Greene, (née Herbert Ronald Greenberg, born 1929) is an American architect, artist, author and educator.

[2] While earning his degree and after, Greene worked for Goff, preparing architectural drawings, which are now included in The Art Institute of Chicago, Archival Collection.

[3] In 1957, Greene returned to the University of Oklahoma, where he and his colleagues, Bruce Goff and Mendel Glickman (1895–1967), among other faculty, developed the American School of architecture, a curriculum that emphasized individual creativity, organic forms, and experimentation.

[11] He did this through the integration of regional and historical references and by incorporating the client's personal objects into a meaningful relationship with the actual design such as in the Joyce Residence.

[14] Greene carried forward the American School legacy in his projects throughout the Great Plains area and Kentucky,[15] focusing on contextual relationships to site and climate with an experimental and resourceful consideration of materials.

His architectural drawings are in The Art Institute of Chicago's archival collection alongside work by Louis Sullivan (1856-1924), Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), Bruce Goff (1904-82) and others associated with the “Prairie Tradition”.

Central to this concept, which Greene derived from Alfred North Whitehead, is the notion that objects are not static entities and have multiple aspects that are apparent by various cues that can be measured against our own biological constructs that form emotional and intellectual experiences.