Eliot Noyes

Eliot Fette Noyes was a Harvardtrained American architect and industrial designer, who worked on projects for IBM, most notably the IBM Selectric typewriter and the IBM Aerospace Research Center in Los Angeles, California. Noyes was also a pioneer in development of comprehensive corporatewide design programs that integrated design strategy and business strategy. Noyes worked on corporate imagery for IBM, Mobil Oil, Cummins Engine and Westinghouse.

Eliot Noyes was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Shortly after his birth, Noyes moved to Colorado where he resided until age seven. At this point, Noyes and his family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Noyes father taught English at Harvard and his mother was an accomplished pianist. He was not always set on architecture. As a teen, he seriously contemplated becoming a painter however by agehe had his mind set on architecture. He first enrolled at Harvard University in 1932 to obtain a bachelors degree in the Classics. Noyes experience at Harvard was unlike the other four members of Harvard Five. When he arrived at Harvard, the school was still under the influence of the BeauxArts architecture movement hardly the modernist influence that the other four received. However, after meeting guest lecturer Le Corbusier in the school library, his architectural outlook changed entirely. He was inspired by Le Corbusiers work and researched the Bauhaus. In his junior year at Harvard, he trave

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