William T. Cannady is an American architect who has designed over two hundred projects and a professor of architecture who has taught design to over one thousand students.

Cannady was born in Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

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. He attended Thomas Jefferson High School in Port
Arthur, Texas, receiving his diploma in 1956. He earned a B.A. from Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University

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 in 1960, his B.Arch. from the
University of California, Berkeley

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 in 1961, and his M.Arch. from Harvard University

Harvard University

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in 1962.

An architect in practice in Houston, Texas since 1965, he founded Wm. T. Cannady &
Associates, Inc. in 1972. As the firm grew its name changed to Cannady, Jackson &
Ryan and then Bricker & Cannady. Cannady and his firm have earned acclaim for a wide
range of designs for residential, religious, commercial and public facilities. Since 1964,
Cannady has been a professor of architecture at the Rice School of Architecture

Rice School of Architecture

The Rice University School of Architecture is an undergraduate and graduate institution for the built environment at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Rice's graduate and undergraduate programs in architecture typically maintains an enrollment of around 200 students...

 at Rice University

Rice University

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.

Cannady was elected a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects

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 in 1979. Cannady
and his firm have won over fifty design awards including two Progressive Architecture awards

Progressive architecture award

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 and two Architectural Record

Architectural Record

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House awards.

Cannady earned the Boy Scouts of America Eagle Scout

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 in 1953. He also served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve from 1954 to 1962, receiving an honorable discharge.

Selected Buildings

• St. Barnabas Episcopal Church,1965
• Cannady House I, 1972
• Brochstein House, 1972
• Cannady Ranch, 1982
• Lovett Square Townhouses,1979
• Fayette Savings Bank, 1983
• Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 1981
• Schulte Ranch House, 1986
• Cannady House III, 1991
• Northern Trust Bank, 1993
• E. B. Cape Public Works Training Center, 1996
• Hakeem Olajuwon House, 1996
• McLean-Williams House, 2001
• Houston Area Women’s Center, 2001
• Slade House, 2003

Writings

The Things They’ve Done: A book about the careers of selected graduates of the Rice University School of Architecture, Wm. T. Cannady, FAIA, 2008

External links

• Wm. T. Cannady, FAIA Architect (http://www.cannadyarchitect.com/)
• Rice University School of Architecture (http://arch.rice.edu/modules/indexwin.php)