Victor Steinbrueck (1911, Mandan, North Dakota - 1985) was an American architect based in Seattle, Washington, and best known for his efforts to preserve the city's Pioneer Square and Pike Place Market. 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Mandan is a city located in Morton County, North Dakota. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: The Emerald City Location of Seattle in King County and Washington Coordinates: Country United States State Washington County King County Incorporated December 2, 1869 Mayor Greg Nickels Area    - City 369. ... Pioneer Square Pergola, 1914 Photograph courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives Pioneer Square is the neighborhood where Seattle, Washington was founded in 1853. ... Pike Place Market, looking west on Pike Street from First Avenue Inside the market Pike Place Market is a public market overlooking the Elliott Bay waterfront in Seattle, Washington, United States. ...

Steinbrueck came to the city in 1913, graduated from the University of Washington in 1935, a period which included a stint in the Civilian Conservation Corps. After working in a number of private Seattle firms and serving in the military during World War II, he joined the faculty of the university and designed a series of regional-modernist residences, built with indigenous materials suited to the climate. The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. ... Civilian Conservation Corps workers restoring the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. ... Combatants Allied Powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Axis Powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000,000 Total dead...

In the early 1960s Steinbrueck, among others, successfully fought developers' plans to obliterate Seattle's most significant historic districts. His own projects were guided by a strong sense of public spirit and social consciousness: low-income housing, the inclusion of social services, and a number of city parks co-designed with landscape architect Richard Haag, including the one that now bears his name. A landscape architect is a person, generally speaking, with an education, whether academic or practical, in landscape architecture and whose professional work conforms to the practice of the same name. ... Richard Haag is a United States landscape architect noted for his work on Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington and the Bloedel Reserve on Baingbridge Island, Washington. ...

He also did much of the design work for the Space Needle. His son, Peter Steinbrueck, is a Seattle architect and a member of the City Council. Space Needle from Downtown Seattle. ... Peter Steinbrueck is a member of the Seattle City Council. ...

See also

• Victor Steinbrueck Park (Seattle)

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External links

• Steinbrueck, Victor Eugene (1911-1985) at HistoryLink.org
• Victor Steinbrueck, Life & Ideas