Robert "Bob" Lawton Jones (1925-2018) was an American architect and academic recognized for his contributions to modernist architecture.
Bob Jones was born in McAlester, Oklahoma on May 12, 1925 and remained there through graduation from high school in 1943, enlisting in and serving the Navy as a midshipman during the rest of World War II.
[1][2] After the war, Jones attended the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated in 1949, with a bachelor's degree in architecture.
After competing his master's degree in 1953, Jones was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study architecture in Germany under Egon Eiermann.
[6] Jones' self-designed personal residence in Tulsa attracted international attention after a photograph of the structure by Julius Shulman made the cover of Progressive Architecture (and subsequently other publications in the United States and Europe).