Gordon Bernie Kaufmann was an English-born American architect mostly known for his work on the Hoover Dam.
Gordon Kaufmann
Kaufmann's Los Angeles Times building
Scripps College
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed between 1931 and 1936, during the Great Depression, it was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over 100 lives. In bills passed by Congress during its construction, it was referred to as the Hoover Dam, after President Herbert Hoover, but was named the Boulder Dam by the Roosevelt administration. In 1947, the name Hoover Dam was restored by Congress.
Hoover Dam by Ansel Adams, 1941
Image: 2017 Aerial view Hoover Dam 4774
River view of the future dam site, c. 1904
Sketch of the proposed dam site and reservoir, c. 1921