Cecil Alexander (architect)
It was decided that young Henry would relinquish his name to his younger cousin and would, instead, be named after his own father, Cecil Alexander, Sr.[1] Alexander attended the Marist School, where he was a classmate of actor and television presenter Bert Parks, and graduated from Boys High School in Atlanta.In 1946, following his military service in World War II, he enrolled in the graduate architecture program and earned his master's degree at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he studied with Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus school, which was a major influence on the development of modern architecture.[1] Alexander married Hermione "Hermi" Weill of New Orleans before serving in the United States Marines during World War II.After FABRAP had won a major commission, for a 40-story commercial tower slated to be the largest building in the Southeast of the United States, an executive of the firm asked for Alexander to be removed from the project.[13] He was survived by his wife, Helen; three children; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and many other family, including his nephew, economist Roman L. Weil.
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