by Lynne Rostochil. Vintage photos from issue #57 of the New Homes Guide and the Norman Transcript, current photos by Lynne Rostochil. Recently, the Mod Squad was invited to tour the home that Dean Bryant Vollendorf designed for himself while he was a professor of architecture at the University of Oklahoma. Tucked away in a Norman […]
Recently, I spent a remarkable and extremely enlightening afternoon chatting with architect Gary McCowan about his experiences at OU during the architecture school’s “golden years,” his incredibly varied and fascinating career, and his deep and lifelong friendship with his mentor and best pal, Dean Bryant Vollendorf, who sadly died in 2008. Today would have been […]
by Lynne Rostochil During his years as an architecture professor at OU, Dean Bryant Vollendorf also regularly contributed designs to the New Homes Guide, a bi-annual publication featuring all kinds of residential plans for potential buyers wanting to construct their own home. While many of the guide’s designs are pretty generic and sedate, Vollendorf’s are much […]
Text and photos by Joshua McKinney There is not much information on the internet about architect Dean Bryant Vollendorf; there is a website called Friends of Vollendorf in his honor, but it is currently under construction. He once worked for John Randal McDonald (a Wisconsin legend with Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired designs), and he and his […]