- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 3 min., 4 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Architect Leon Bridges was born on August 18, 1932, in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Dorsey High School in 1950. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, until 1952, when he was drafted to serve in the U.S. Military. Upon return, he earned his B.A. degree in architecture from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, in 1960. From 1961 through 1963, Bridges worked for the architecture firm Gotteland and Kocarski, and became a registered architect in 1962. In 1972, Bridges relocated his firm to Baltimore, Maryland. He was the first registered African American architect in Maryland. In 1984, he earned his M.B.A. degree from Loyola College of Maryland. Bridges is the recipient of more than twenty national, regional and local awards for design excellence including many for his work restoring Baltimore's Penn Station. Bridges worked as a partner in The Obsidian Group, an architectural design and planning firm.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Leon Bridges
- Leon Bridges
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Edgar Carey Lane.
- OCLC
- 994208265
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Leon Bridges.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
040304
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Edgar Carey Lane.
- Event
Recorded Baltimore, Maryland 2004 June 29.
Recorded Baltimore, Maryland 2004 August 16.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Architect.
- Added Author
Bridges, Leon, 1932- interviewee.
Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.
Lane, Edgar Carey, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.