PCAD - Mario Francis Corbett

Male, US, born 1901-07-27, died 1977-07-25

Associated with the firms network

Corbett and Harnden, Architects; Corbett, Mario F., Architect

Professional History

Résumé

Principal, Mario Corbett, Architect, San Mateo, CA, 1930-c. 1965; he relocated his practice to Marin County.

After his education at California School of Fine Arts, Corbett traveled in Europe.

Corbett won honors in a small house competition sponsored by a national magazine in 1926.

Education

Coursework, California School of Fine Arts;

Personal

Relocation

Born in NY, Corbett lived in Southern CA during the first years of his life.

In 1948, he and his wife, June, lived in Sausalito, CA. (See San Francisco, California, City Directory, 1948, p. 424.)

He died in Pismo Beach, San Luis Obispo County, CA, at age 76.

Parents

Corbett was a second-generation architect. his father His father, B. Cooper Corbett, was a Beaux-Arts-educated architect and friend of Stanford White (1853-1906) of the famed firm McKim, Mead, and White in New York, NY.

Spouse

He married June Corbett.

SSN: 569-24-3350; Corbett liked to sketch and do watercolors as a hobby, and had been exhibited in galleries including the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, CA.

PCAD id: 384

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Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Adobe Art Center, Castro Valley, CA		Castro Valley	CA
Castro Valley Kindergarten and Community Center, Hayward, CA		Hayward	CA
Corbett, Mario House, Wolfback Ridge, Sausalito, CA	1947
Crocker, William, House, Wolfback Ridge, Sausalito, CA	1948
Holmes, J.W., House, Piedmont, CA		Piedmont	CA
Japanese Weekend House, Carmel, CA		Carmel	CA
McKey, John W., House, Hillsborough, CA		Hillsborough	CA
Mitchell, Mrs James, House, Morgan Hill, CA		Morgan Hill	CA
O'Brien, Edgar D., House, Atherton, CA		Atherton	CA
Powers, Mr. and Mrs. Roy C., House, Hillsborough, CA		Hillsborough	CA
Thomsen, Moritz, House, Vina, CA	1950	Vina	CA

Publications

Sanders, Harry, Jr., "Simple Mode of Living Expressed in Mario Corbett's Work", Architect and Engineer, 22, 01/1940. Sanders, Harry, Jr., "Simple Mode of Living Expressed in Mario Corbett's Work", Architect and Engineer, 19, 23, 01/1940. Sanders, Harry, Jr., "Simple Mode of Living Expressed in Mario Corbett's Work", Architect and Engineer, 19, 01/1940. Sanders, Harry, Jr., "Simple Mode of Living Expressed in Mario Corbett's Work", Architect and Engineer, 20-21, 01/1940. Sanders, Harry, Jr., "Simple Mode of Living Expressed in Mario Corbett's Work", Architect and Engineer, 16-18, 01/1940. "Corbett Portrait", Architectural Forum, 91: 3, 44, 9/1949. "The long view in architecture--Mario Corbett's own house", Architectural Forum, 91: 3, 59-61, 9/1949. "Letters", Architectural Forum, 91: 5, 22, 24, 11/1949. "81 New Houses: West Coast, Two bedrooms, one-story house planned around a tree", Architectural Forum, 74: 4, 244, 04/1941. "'Architectural Forum'is sponsored by Macy's in San Francisco", Architectural Forum, 91: 3, 14, 9/1949. Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, Drexler, Arthur, Built in USA: Post-War Architecture, 54-55, 1952. Eckardt, Wolf Von, "Mario F. Corbett", Mid-Century Architecture in America, 199, 1961. Eckardt, Wolf Von, "Mario F. Corbett", Mid-Century Architecture in America, 202, 1961. Eckardt, Wolf Von, "Mario Francis Corbett", Mid-Century Architecture in America, 198, 1961.

Exhibitions