by Lynne Rostochil This is the second of four installments about Kamphoefner’s career. To read the first installment, go here. By the early 1940s, Henry L. Kamphoefner was one of the OU Architecture department’s most popular and prolific professors and his work was gaining a lot of national attention. In addition to his home being […]
by Lynne Rostochil Before Bruce Goff reigned supreme at OU, there was Henry L. Kamphoefner, who began his teaching career at OU in 1937 and became the chairman of the School of Architecture there in 1944. Kamphoefner arrived in Norman with an impressive academic pedigree. Born in 1907 in Des Moines, Iowa, he graduated from the […]
by Lynne Rostochil (Originally, this article was written to correspond with the opening of the Goff exhibit at OU in 2010. It is reprinted here in its entirety.) A new exhibit celebrating Oklahoma’s most famous architect, Bruce Goff, and his work opened last weekend at the Fred Jones, Jr. Museum of Art on the […]