Robert Andrews Little (1919–2005) was a modernist architect based in Cleveland, Ohio. He received the Cleveland Arts Prize for Architecture in 1965. Little practiced in the Bauhaus and International styles. He also designed and advocated energy-efficient features, and employed Jewish and African-American architects and engineers.[1]
His firm, Little & Associates, merged with Dalton·Dalton Associates in 1969.[1] He was married to Ann Halle Little,[2] a member of the locally prominent Halle department store family. Little and his wife had two sons, Robert and Revere. Revere was a noteworthy folk singer.[3]
Little invented and patented a pre-computer design tool called Solux "that allowed him to trace the path of the sun over a cardboard model mechanically, instead of having to use laborious mathematical calculations," used for lighting calculations.[1]
Steel home prototype, on roof of Kauffman's Department Store in Pittsburgh.
Pepper Ridge development in Pepper Pike, Ohio, including a converted barn studio for Cleveland sculptor William McVey (a design that received the Progressive Architecture award).
Community Health Foundation facility in University Circle (later occupied by Kaiser Permanente and then as the Community Dialysis Center)
Cleveland's Metro General Hospital's twin towers (now MetroHealth Medical Center)
Master plan for the revitalization of area around St. Vincent Charity Hospital including the hospital's new buildings. (The plan won Progressive Architecture's urban design award).