Résumé

Designer, Anderson Nichols and Company, Boston, MA, 1949-1953.

Associate, Stoner Associates, Architects, Boston, MA, 1953-1956.

Key Member, Anshen and Allen Architects, San Francisco, CA, 1956-1961.

Founding Partner, Volkmann & Stockwell Architects, San Francisco, CA, 1961-1968.

Founding Partner, Bull Field Volkmann Stockwell Architects, San Francisco, CA, 1968-1981.

Partner, Bull Volkmann Stockwell Architects 1981-1990, San Francisco, CA, and Vail, CO.

Partner, Bull Stockwell Allen Architects, San Francisco, CA, 1990-1997. Stockwell retired in 1997.

Professional Activities

Member, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Northern CA Chapter, 1958- .

Professional Awards

Recipient, AIA, Award of Merit, 1959.

Recipient, AIA, Homes for Better Living Award, 1960.

Recipient, AIA Western Home Award 1966.

Recipient, AISC Award of Excellence 1967.

Recipient, AIA Red Cedar Shingle Awards, 1973.

Recipient, AIA Red Cedar Shingle Awards, 1975.

Recipient, AIA California Council (CCAIA), Honor Award, 1978.

Fellow, American Institute of Architects (FAIA), 1979.

Recipient, AIA California Council (CCAIA), Honor Award, 1982.

Recipient, CCAIA, Firm Award, 1989.

High School/College

Graduated Phillips Academy, Andover, MA 1944.

Coureswork, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 1944-1946. Stockwell attended Notre Dame under the U.S. Navy V-12 program, 1944-1946.

B.Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1949. He transferred to MIT from Notre Dame, studying under Alvar Aalto, Ralph Rapson, and Dean William W. Wurster.

Relocation

Born in MA, Stockwell attended Phillips Andover and, during World War II, Notre Dame University in South Bend, IN, under the auspices of the US Navy. He then transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, after the war.

Stockwell himself (in an email to the author, 12/18/2015) prepared the following summary of relocations during his life:

"Although attracted to the San Francisco Bay Area after graduation [from MIT], a growing recession kept Stockwell in Boston where he designed elementary and regional high schools. In 1956, however, the West Coast economy improved; and, with wife Mimi and two daughters, he moved to San Francisco and the then-young firm of Anshen & Allen as architect for a new parking structure and the new College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. A growing private practice with Daniel G. Volkmann, Jr. led to the merger with architects Henrik Bull and John L. Field to form Bull Field Volkmann Stockwell and successor firms.

Stockwell was awarded National Endowment of the Arts [NEA] grants in 1971 to study development around mountain lakes in Europe and in 1975 for research on community open spaces in Holland and the British Isles. His articles describing the studies were published in Urban Land and Landscape Architecture. Other articles on planning and design appeared in Urban Land, Nation's Cities and Ski Area Management.

As the firm became noted for its design of ski resorts, Stockwell moved to Colorado in 1979 to manage a branch office in Vail and oversee planning and design for Rocky Mountain projects in Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado.

Retired, he has authored, illustrated, and published over a dozen books of fiction and non-fiction involving architects, architecture and construction."

Spouse

Woody Stockwell married Mary Windsor Cameron in 1950.

Children

He and Mimi had son and four daughters.

Biographical Notes

He is known as "Woody" to friends.

• Winchester, MA (Architect's Birth)
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