MR. WILLIAMS

摘要

Only in America, it seems, could the orphan son of a black fruit merchant get the notion that mere talent and perseverance might vault him over the barriers to entry in the architectural profession, a bastion of white men with all the right connections. Yet that is the tale of Paul Revere Williams (1894-1980), who not only had the notion but the drive to achieve his dream-becoming one of the most celebrated residential architects during the Golden Age of Hollywood and a pillar of Los Angeles' burgeoning African-American community.