Walter Netsch

His signature aesthetic is known as Field Theory and is based on rotating squares into complex shapes.

He earned his bachelor of architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1943 and began his career as an architect working for L. Morgan Yost in Kenilworth, Illinois.

In 1947, he joined Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, which initially assigned him to work in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

[1] Following his work on the Air Force Academy, Netsch led the team which designed the original University of Illinois Circle Campus.

[4] Netsch designed several buildings at Northwestern University and the campus and buildings of Montgomery College in Takoma Park, Maryland, and was the focus of an exhibit at the Northwestern University Library in February–March 2006[5] as well as a monograph, Walter A. Netsch, FAIA: A Critical Appreciation and Sourcebook, published in May 2008.

Netsch was the chief architect for the U.S. Air Force Academy , including the distinctive Cadet Chapel, seen here
The Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago is one of Walter Netsch's designs.
University Hall at the University of Illinois at Chicago , part of Netsch's original design for the Chicago Circle campus.