{"id":26674,"date":"2022-11-07T08:41:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T13:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/2022\/11\/07\/harry-bates-modernist-architect-of-long-island-homes-dies-at-95\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:51:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:51:46","slug":"harry-bates-modernist-architect-of-long-island-homes-dies-at-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/2022\/11\/07\/harry-bates-modernist-architect-of-long-island-homes-dies-at-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Bates, Modernist Architect of Long Island Homes, Dies at 95"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This article was reposted in part from the New York Times.<\/em> Harry Bates holds a bachelor of architecture from the NC State College of Design from 1952. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harry Bates, an architect who designed scores of modernist houses on Fire Island in the 1960s and \u201970s and in the Hamptons in the 1980s and \u201990s, and then, with a design partner 45 years his junior, had a surge of output and influence around the turn of the century, died on Tuesday, November 1, 2020 in Fernandina Beach, Fla. He was 95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHarry Bates proved that modernism is not just a spent force from another era,\u201d said Christopher Rawlins, an architect and the co-founder of Pines Modern, a Fire Island-based preservation group. And Mr. Bates\u2019s \u201clate-career renaissance,\u201d he added, \u201cmarks one of the great second acts in architecture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Harry Bates in 1988 inside a home under construction in Water Mill, N.Y., on Long Island. Designed by his firm at the time, Bates & Booher, it incorporated wooden beams from an old barn. Photo credit: Vic DeLucia\/The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This post was originally published<\/a> in College of Design Blog.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false,"raw":"\n\n\n\n\n

This article was reposted in part from the New York Times.<\/em> Harry Bates holds a bachelor of architecture from the NC State College of Design from 1952. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harry Bates, an architect who designed scores of modernist houses on Fire Island in the 1960s and \u201970s and in the Hamptons in the 1980s and \u201990s, and then, with a design partner 45 years his junior, had a surge of output and influence around the turn of the century, died on Tuesday, November 1, 2020 in Fernandina Beach, Fla. He was 95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHarry Bates proved that modernism is not just a spent force from another era,\u201d said Christopher Rawlins, an architect and the co-founder of Pines Modern, a Fire Island-based preservation group. And Mr. Bates\u2019s \u201clate-career renaissance,\u201d he added, \u201cmarks one of the great second acts in architecture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read the full article <\/span>here <\/span> <\/svg> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Harry Bates in 1988 inside a home under construction in Water Mill, N.Y., on Long Island. Designed by his firm at the time, Bates & Booher, it incorporated wooden beams from an old barn. Photo credit: Vic DeLucia\/The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Withstanding \u201ca tsunami of shingles\u201d on houses going up on the East End, he stuck to an aesthetic of clean, elegant lines and simple materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":26676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"ncstate_wire","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-26674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-_from-newswire-collection-277"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26674"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28868,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26674\/revisions\/28868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}