John Savage Bolles

Biography

Professional life

Immediate Post Graduate

Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

Carnegie Institution for Science

Golden Gate International Exposition

Architectural Works

• IBM: when IBM needed more factories for their rapid, post World War II expansion, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. hired John Savage Bolles at the suggestion of Eliot Noyes to design the first computer factory in the San Jose area, IBM Building 25.
• Candlestick Park: the building that Bolles was most famous for was Candlestick Park, former home of the San Francisco Giants baseball team.
• Macy's
• *Bayfair in San Leandro
• *Interiors for Hilltop Mall in Richmond, Hillsdale Shopping Center in San Mateo, and Valley Fair in San Jose
• *Interior for the renovation of the Macy's Union Square San Francisco flagship store.

  Published works

• 1977: Las Monjas, A Major Pre-Mexican Architectural Complex at Chichen Itza, University of Oklahoma Press,,

  Awards

Education

• Bachelor of Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 1926
• Master of Architecture, Harvard University, 1932

  Professional

• Fellow of the American Institute of Architects

  Citations

Biography

• Archiplanet
• Pacific Heights Architects
• Encyclopedia of San Francisco