Cooper Hewitt says...
Noted American architect, E. Fay Jones, was a pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright. Jones is primarily known as the creator of the Ozark style of architecture, although his buildings are located throughout the United States. His designs for houses, chapels, and churches are hailed as organic and site-sensitive. Influenced by his training under Wright, the designs often rely on cedar siding, shingles, and stone. Jones is probably best known for the Thorncrown Chapel (built 1980) in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. In 2000, the tall, light, tensile structure of glass, wood, and stone was voted the fourth-best building of the 20th century by the American Institute of Architects. In 1980, Jones won a Rome Prize Fellowship and, in 1990, he received the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal. Although his work shows an affinity for Wright’s approach and designs, Jones’s designs have a character of their own. They manifest his passion for the history of architecture, his engineering background, his eye for pragmatic detail, and his concern for needs of the client.
References:
Robert Adams Ivy, Fay Jones : the architecture of E. Fay Jones, FAIA (Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Architects Press, 1992), 103, 105.
Roy Reed, “Fay Jones, 83, Architect Influenced by Wright, Dies.” The New York Times, September 1, 2004, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/01/arts/design/01jones.html
