Eugene Sternberg


Eugene Sternberg was an Czechborn American architect known for his passionate commitment and contribution to contemporarymodernist architecture and town planning in Colorado and other Rocky Mountain states between 1950 and 1990. He designed over 400 building projects and subdivisions, many of them iconic examples of Modernist architecture. Since his focus was on improving the quality of life of the general population, the structures he built were beautiful, useful, and costeffective. Most of his projects were in the category of social architecture affordable homes, senior housing projects, public housing, hospitals, medical clinics, public schools, community colleges, community centers, churches, buildings for credit unions, labor unions, and headquarters offices for Rural Electric Associations. As a planner Sternberg designed a number of innovative housing subdivisions and master plans for college campuses, governmental complexes, county fairgrounds, and a number of small western cit

Sternberg was born during World War I in Bratislava, where his family had moved to be with his father while he served in the AustroHungarian army. When the war, and the AustroHungarian Empire, ended in 1918, the family returned to their home in Munkacs in the province of Ruthenia in 1920 it became part of the newly created country of Czechoslovakia.

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