Obituary - The Austin American Statesman (Austin, Texas.), April 23, 2022:
Robert James Coote
Robert James Coote, Professor Emeritus of Architecture of the University of Texas in Austin died April 16, 2022 in Austin of natural causes. He was 90 years of age.
Beginning in 1965, Mr. Coote made teaching and his students the center of his life. He taught studio courses of Architectural Design and seminars in the History of English and Twentieth Century Architecture for thirty-three years in Austin and in the school's foreign study programs in Western Europe and London. He held the Cass Gilbert Centennial Teaching Fellowship. He was widely read and traveled, maintaining homes in London and Austin.
He had a small architectural practice that produced houses, which along with his paintings, drawings, and architectural writings were occasionally exhibited and included in national and international architectural and art books and magazines. He was a contributing editor of "Texas Architect" and the author of a book The Eclectic Odyssey of Atlee B. Ayres, Architect. After retiring in 2002, he continued to teach in the UT Adult Education courses, Quest and Sage, and to serve as a docent at the Humanities Research Center and Laguna Gloria Austin Museum of Art. He continued to make and exhibit his paintings and drawings, and to do research in the representation of architecture in art.
Raised in Washington D.C., he was the only child of a senior civil servant Robert and his wife Dorothy Kennedy. He was a choirboy in Washington Cathedral and graduated from St. Albans School in 1949. He went on to earn his BA in Political Science from Haverford College in 1953. After two years of active duty as an officer in the US Navy Reserve that took him to Japan, which was to be a lifelong aesthetic influence, he began four years of architectural studies in the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University, graduating with a Masters of Architecture and the A.I.A. Medal in 1959.
After a year in Rome Italy on a Fullbright Grant, he returned to Washington to do his professional apprenticeship and acquire registration as an architect.
He served on the Board of Trustees of the Austin Museum of Art and Ballet Austin. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Society of Architectural Historians, the English Speaking Union, the Littlefield Society, the Tate Gallery and Royal Academy of Art.
Arrangements are with Weed Corley Fish, 5416 Parkcrest Drive, Austin Texas.
Robert James Coote
Robert James Coote, Professor Emeritus of Architecture of the University of Texas in Austin died April 16, 2022 in Austin of natural causes. He was 90 years of age.
Beginning in 1965, Mr. Coote made teaching and his students the center of his life. He taught studio courses of Architectural Design and seminars in the History of English and Twentieth Century Architecture for thirty-three years in Austin and in the school's foreign study programs in Western Europe and London. He held the Cass Gilbert Centennial Teaching Fellowship. He was widely read and traveled, maintaining homes in London and Austin.
He had a small architectural practice that produced houses, which along with his paintings, drawings, and architectural writings were occasionally exhibited and included in national and international architectural and art books and magazines. He was a contributing editor of "Texas Architect" and the author of a book The Eclectic Odyssey of Atlee B. Ayres, Architect. After retiring in 2002, he continued to teach in the UT Adult Education courses, Quest and Sage, and to serve as a docent at the Humanities Research Center and Laguna Gloria Austin Museum of Art. He continued to make and exhibit his paintings and drawings, and to do research in the representation of architecture in art.
Raised in Washington D.C., he was the only child of a senior civil servant Robert and his wife Dorothy Kennedy. He was a choirboy in Washington Cathedral and graduated from St. Albans School in 1949. He went on to earn his BA in Political Science from Haverford College in 1953. After two years of active duty as an officer in the US Navy Reserve that took him to Japan, which was to be a lifelong aesthetic influence, he began four years of architectural studies in the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University, graduating with a Masters of Architecture and the A.I.A. Medal in 1959.
After a year in Rome Italy on a Fullbright Grant, he returned to Washington to do his professional apprenticeship and acquire registration as an architect.
He served on the Board of Trustees of the Austin Museum of Art and Ballet Austin. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Society of Architectural Historians, the English Speaking Union, the Littlefield Society, the Tate Gallery and Royal Academy of Art.
Arrangements are with Weed Corley Fish, 5416 Parkcrest Drive, Austin Texas.
Obituary - The Austin American Statesman (Austin, Texas.), April 23, 2022:
Robert James Coote
Robert James Coote, Professor Emeritus of Architecture of the University of Texas in Austin died April 16, 2022 in Austin of natural causes. He was 90 years of age.
Beginning in 1965, Mr. Coote made teaching and his students the center of his life. He taught studio courses of Architectural Design and seminars in the History of English and Twentieth Century Architecture for thirty-three years in Austin and in the school's foreign study programs in Western Europe and London. He held the Cass Gilbert Centennial Teaching Fellowship. He was widely read and traveled, maintaining homes in London and Austin.
He had a small architectural practice that produced houses, which along with his paintings, drawings, and architectural writings were occasionally exhibited and included in national and international architectural and art books and magazines. He was a contributing editor of "Texas Architect" and the author of a book The Eclectic Odyssey of Atlee B. Ayres, Architect. After retiring in 2002, he continued to teach in the UT Adult Education courses, Quest and Sage, and to serve as a docent at the Humanities Research Center and Laguna Gloria Austin Museum of Art. He continued to make and exhibit his paintings and drawings, and to do research in the representation of architecture in art.
Raised in Washington D.C., he was the only child of a senior civil servant Robert and his wife Dorothy Kennedy. He was a choirboy in Washington Cathedral and graduated from St. Albans School in 1949. He went on to earn his BA in Political Science from Haverford College in 1953. After two years of active duty as an officer in the US Navy Reserve that took him to Japan, which was to be a lifelong aesthetic influence, he began four years of architectural studies in the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University, graduating with a Masters of Architecture and the A.I.A. Medal in 1959.
After a year in Rome Italy on a Fullbright Grant, he returned to Washington to do his professional apprenticeship and acquire registration as an architect.
He served on the Board of Trustees of the Austin Museum of Art and Ballet Austin. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Society of Architectural Historians, the English Speaking Union, the Littlefield Society, the Tate Gallery and Royal Academy of Art.
Arrangements are with Weed Corley Fish, 5416 Parkcrest Drive, Austin Texas.
Robert James Coote
Robert James Coote, Professor Emeritus of Architecture of the University of Texas in Austin died April 16, 2022 in Austin of natural causes. He was 90 years of age.
Beginning in 1965, Mr. Coote made teaching and his students the center of his life. He taught studio courses of Architectural Design and seminars in the History of English and Twentieth Century Architecture for thirty-three years in Austin and in the school's foreign study programs in Western Europe and London. He held the Cass Gilbert Centennial Teaching Fellowship. He was widely read and traveled, maintaining homes in London and Austin.
He had a small architectural practice that produced houses, which along with his paintings, drawings, and architectural writings were occasionally exhibited and included in national and international architectural and art books and magazines. He was a contributing editor of "Texas Architect" and the author of a book The Eclectic Odyssey of Atlee B. Ayres, Architect. After retiring in 2002, he continued to teach in the UT Adult Education courses, Quest and Sage, and to serve as a docent at the Humanities Research Center and Laguna Gloria Austin Museum of Art. He continued to make and exhibit his paintings and drawings, and to do research in the representation of architecture in art.
Raised in Washington D.C., he was the only child of a senior civil servant Robert and his wife Dorothy Kennedy. He was a choirboy in Washington Cathedral and graduated from St. Albans School in 1949. He went on to earn his BA in Political Science from Haverford College in 1953. After two years of active duty as an officer in the US Navy Reserve that took him to Japan, which was to be a lifelong aesthetic influence, he began four years of architectural studies in the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University, graduating with a Masters of Architecture and the A.I.A. Medal in 1959.
After a year in Rome Italy on a Fullbright Grant, he returned to Washington to do his professional apprenticeship and acquire registration as an architect.
He served on the Board of Trustees of the Austin Museum of Art and Ballet Austin. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Society of Architectural Historians, the English Speaking Union, the Littlefield Society, the Tate Gallery and Royal Academy of Art.
Arrangements are with Weed Corley Fish, 5416 Parkcrest Drive, Austin Texas.
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