Architect, United States The career of Edward Larrabee Barnes has encapsulated and contributed to the course of modernism across the United States. Barnes entered the architectural profession in concurrence with the arrival of Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer into this country in 1937. He closed his office in 1994, just as a reinvention of modernism appeared to be Entries A–F 205 launched. During the intervening years, Barnes crafted an array of private houses notable for their clarity in plan, volume, and landscaping. The houses exist as a series of educationl and cultural buildings, instructive for the sensitivity of their siting and responsiveness to a larger context. Barnes’s body of work also includes several office buildings, note- worthy for their dedication to Louis Sullivan’s theme of the tall building, artistically considered. Barnes was born in Chicago in 1915, to parents who were successful in their chosen careers of law and writing. He attended preparatory school in the Ea...