Quincy Jones

A. Quincy Jones was a talented architect with a unique style but for whom the interests of community planning were more important than asserting his own individual aesthetic. Jones called the typical tract houses of the day 'bumps along the road waiting for trees to grow', and his work on the pioneering Los Angeles development known as the Mutual Housing Association (1946-1950), the later Eichler Homes, and other residential developments helped to set the postwar standard for affordable, livable, aesthetically pleasing homes that looked and felt modern. Jones was one of the first American architects to experiment with unconventional structual systems: slip-form concrete, caste-in-place concrete beams and modular-based plywood.