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Warren J. Cox, FAIA, is an American architect who founded Hartman Cox architects with George Hartman in 1965.

Early Life and Education
Warren Cox was born in New York City on August 28, 1935. His father, Oscar S. Cox was a lawyer who worked for the Roosevelt administration. His mother, Louise Black Cox, was a department store buyer and grew up in Bryson City, North Carolina. The Cox family moved to Washington, DC when Warren and his brother Peter Cox, were young children. Warren graduated from the Hill School in Pennsylvania and then Yale University in 1957. Warren received a Masters in Architecture from Yale University in 1961, where he was the editor of Perspecta, the Yale architectural journal. While he was at Yale, he worked for two summers in Milan at BBPR architects. He received the Henry Adams medal while he was at Yale.

Career
Cox began his career working as the Technology editor at Architectural Forum. He then went on to he become a designer at Keyes, Lethbridge and Condon of Washington, DC, until 1965 when he and George Hartman founded Hartman-Cox Architects.

Early in his career, Cox and his firm designed several notable and award-winning buildings, including the Euram Building on Dupont Circle, described by Washington Post architecture critic Benjamin Forgey as "bold, expressive, sculptural, abstract," the Folger Shakespeare Library addition, which won the 1989 AIA national honor award, and described as a blend of "architectural grace and eccentricity" by Paul Goldberger, New York Times architecture critic.

In 1988, Hartman Cox won the notable Architecture Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects. The firm has won numerous other awards for their work, including the 2007 Palladio award for the Museum of American Art addition, six American Institute of Architects awards, the Louis Sullivan Award for Architecture, the 2006 Arthur Ross Award for Architecture.

Throughout his career, Cox has specialized in designing work for institutional, educational and civic clients. Notable institutional work has included the renovation of the National Archives, the United States Courthouse in Corpus Christi, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Virginia, and the Kennedy Center Concert Hall renovation. Notable educational work has included the addition to the Duke Divinity School, extensive work at the University of Michigan, including the South Hall, and the Edward Bennett Williams Law Library at Georgetown Law School. Hartman Cox is known for its site sensitive restoration work, including the Jefferson Library, part of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.

Cox has authored A Guide to the Architecture of Washington DC (with Hugh Newell Jacobson) in 1974, and two books have been published which detail the work of the firm.