Robert Luther
MyersAIA

(1926–2016)

Myers was born in Macon GA. He grew up in Winston-Salem, studied at UNC Chapel Hill, earned a BA in Architecture at Cornell in 1950, and earned a 1951 MA in Architecture at Harvard studying under Walter Gropius. He won the 1953 Rome Prize, returned to North Carolina, and worked for Lashmit James Brown Pollock from 1956 until 1961. Then Myers moved to New York and worked for Shreve Lamb Harmon, Charles Luckman, Philip Johnson, and the Eggers Partnership. His last position was with Russell Gibson Van Dohlen in Farmington CT. His last major project before retirement in 1988 was the world headquarters for The Stanley Works in New Britain CT. One of the ten founding members of the organization which became the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, Myers endowed two principal chairs at the Winston-Salem Symphony and donated his 400+ piece art collection to the Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill.