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Hubert Bebb, Founder. A Legacy in Architectural Excellence. The roots of Community Tectonics Architects trace back to 1950 when the late Mr. Hubert Bebb made a pivotal decision to move his thriving architectural practice from Chicago to the scenic landscapes of East Tennessee.
In 1966 he founded the architectural firm Community Tectonics with James Hugh Ogle. Bebb designed the Sunsphere for the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville, the iconic emblem of the fair [McClung does NOT have the Sunsphere plans].
Oct 8, 2017 · Community Tectonics, now headquartered in Knoxville and led by Don Shell and Bill Vinson, two Bebb associates from the early 1970s, has garnered numerous awards in recent years for energy-efficient school buildings.
For Knoxville, the theme structure was to be the Sunsphere, proposed in early 1980 by William Denton and Hubert Bebb of the firm Community Tectonics. Illinois-born Bebb (1903-1984) already had some World’s Fair credentials—he had been a young designer at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1933.
2016 Hubert Bebb Scholarship Winner - Community Tectonics Architects on Hubert Bebb Scholarship
Through visual analysis, Bebb emerged as the key architect who, over the course of fifty years, not only created hybrids informed by the existing built environment of Gatlinburg, but inserted a new prototype and subsequent hybrids that came to define much of the downtown landscape.
Scope and Contents Hubert Bebb (1903-1984) was a native of Illinois. He received his training as an architect at Cornell University’s College of Architecture where he graduated in 1928. Working with classmate Nathaniel Owings, Bebb created designs for the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair.
