Résumé

Summer intern and draftsman, Mario Corbett, Architect, San Francisco, CA, summer 1951 and 1954.

Early on, Bull became known for his mountain cabins, many in an A-frame structure, often used for skiing vacations.

Architect, Oakland, CA, 1954-1956.

Principal, Henrik Bull, Architect, San Francisco, CA, 1956- .

Partner, Bull, Field, Volkmann, Stockwell, Architects, San Francisco, CA, 1967- .

Partner, Bull Volkmann Stockwell, Architects, San Francisco, CA.

Partner, Bull Stockwell Allen, San Francisco, CA.

Partner, Bull Stockwell Allen and Ripley, Architects, San Francisco, CA.

Partner, Bull Stockwell Allen (BSA), Architects, San Francisco, CA.

Professional Activities

Member, American Instittute of Architects (AIA).

Professional Awards

Recipient, American Institute of Architects (AIA) and House and Home Magazine, Homes for Better Living Awards Program, Award of Merit for Multifamily Housing, 1977.

Recipient, AIA California Council (AIACC), Firm Award, 1989.

Archives

Henrik Bull's papers, drawings and other memorabilia have been preserved at the University of California, Berkeley. College of Environmental Design (CED). Environmental Design Archives' Henrik Bull Collection 2009.-02. The Online Archives of Californai (OAC) website described the collection: "The Bull Collection is comprised of four series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Office Records, and Project Records. The small amount of Personal Papers contains a student project and correspondence. The Professional Papers include correspondence with clients, colleagues and the public and articles written by Bull regarding architectural practice and building techniques. Office records are comprised of general correspondence, public relations brochures and portfolios, a firm award and portfolios documenting single projects assembled as award submissions, tear sheets and clippings for different projects, and photographs, drawings and documents of projects for use in publication, public relations or presentation material. The Project Records contain design documents, correspondence, and drawings for work done independently and with his partnerships and firms." (See University of California, College of Environmental Design, Environmental Design Archives.edu, "Henrik Bull Collection 2009.-02," accessed 09/27/2023.)

College

B.Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, 1952. Bull began as an aeronautical engineering major and changed to architecture in about 1949. He attended MIT at the same time that San Franciscan William W. Wurster (1895-1973) served as Dean of the Department of Architecture. Portland, OR, architect Pietro Belluschi (1899-1994) followed Wurster in 1951. At MIT, Bull would have been exposed to many forms of Modernism, including the woodsy Bay Region brand advocated by Wurster. MIT had a star faculty while Bull attended, including Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), the great Finnish architect who taught there while supervising his Baker Dormitory's construction (1947-1948); Ralph Rapson (1914-2008), who went on to a long career at the University of Minnesota; and Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), the "futurist," who began designing rationalized approaches to housing, construction and transportation in the 1920s. Working at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, MA, Bull collaborated with Fuller to produce geodesic domes for an Air Force radar system on the Alaskan Territory's North Slope.

Relocation

Bull was born and raised by Norwegian immigrant parents in New York, NY.

He moved to San Francisco, CA, to work with Mario Corbett (1901-1977) in 1954 and remained here.

Parents

His parents were Johan Bull (1893–1945), who illustrated items for the New Yorker beginning in 1925, and Sonja Geelmuyden Bull (1898–1992). Henrik was their only child.

Spouse

Bull married c. 1955.

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