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Thomas L. Bosworth FAIA (born 1930) is an American architect and architectural educator. His best-known structures are those he designed for the Pilchuck Glass School between 1971 and 1986, but his primary focus in his thirty-five year professional career has been the design of single-family residences across the Pacific Northwest.

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Pilchuck Glass School is an international center for glass art education. The school was founded in 1971 by Dale Chihuly, Anne Gould Hauberg (1917-2016) and John H. Hauberg (1916-2002). The campus is located on a former tree farm in Stanwood, Washington, United States and the administrative offices are located in Seattle. The name "Pilchuck" comes from the local Native American language and translates to "red water". Pilchuck offers one-, two- and three-week resident classes each summer in a broad spectrum of glass techniques as well as residencies for emerging and established artists working in all media.

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Bosworth was born and raised in Oberlin, Ohio, where his father and grandfather were ministers and faculty members. Bosworth received his undergraduate degree from Oberlin College, where he studied architectural history with an emphasis on classical architecture and graduated with a B.A. in 1952. He attended Princeton University graduate school studying art and archaeology, but returned to Oberlin after a year and earned his M.A in 1954. After military service, he studied briefly at Harvard University as a Ph.D. student, then entered the four-year professional program in architecture at Yale University, graduating with an M.Arch. in 1960.

Oberlin, Ohio City in Lorain County, Ohio, United States

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Oberlin College Private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, United States

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Princeton University University in Princeton, New Jersey

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Bosworth spent four years working in the office of Eero Saarinen, then joined the faculty at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1964. He headed the Architecture Department beginning in 1966 but left after two years to move to the Pacific Northwest.

Eero Saarinen Finnish American architect (1910–1961)

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Rhode Island School of Design Private art and design college in Providence, Rhode Island

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Bosworth came to Seattle in 1968 to serve as Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, a position he held until 1972; he continued thereafter as a professor of architecture until his retirement about 2003.

In 1971 he was commissioned by John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg to develop designs for the Pilchuck Glass School. Bosworth drew on the rustic architecture of the American West as a source for his design of the Hot Shop for kilns for glass blowing (1973), Flat Shop for smaller glass projects (1976), Lodge (1977), and a series of other structures. By 1986 he was responsible for fifteen structures at Pilchuck. He also served as Director of the school from 1977 to 1980.

Anne Gould Hauberg American philanthropist

Anne Gould Hauberg was an American civic activist, philanthropist, and patroness of the arts.

Bosworth's residential practice flowered in the 1980s and has continued to the present. Between 1980 and 2004, Bosworth was responsible for the design of approximately 60 single-family residences across the Northwest, many of them vacation homes in rural settings. With their symmetries, axial composition, and studied proportions, Bosworth's designs often show the influence of his classical background. Over the years, Bosworth's work was recognized with numerous design awards.

During his years at the University of Washington, he was instrumental in initiating the Architecture Department's Rome Program. And an exchange program with Kobe University, Japan.

Bosworth was elected a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects in 1979. He received a mid-career fellowship (Rome Prize) from the American Academy in Rome in 1980. He was awarded the AIA Seattle Chapter Medal and an honorary doctorate from Kobe University, Japan in 2003. In 2012 Bosworth was awarded the AIA Northwest and Pacific Region Medal of Honor Award, which is the highest honor presented by the AIA NW&P Region. He is also a member of the ultra-secret Bohemian Grove Society.

American Institute of Architects Professional association for architects

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Bosworth's architectural practice was carried on as Bosworth Hoedemaker Architecture in Seattle, Washington; the successor firm is Hoedemaker Pfeiffer.

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