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Calvin C. Straub FAIA (1920–1998) was born in Macon, Georgia. He studied at Texas A&M University and Pasadena City College before receiving his degree in architecture at the University of Southern California in 1945. After serving in the Navy, Straub lectured at USC from 1946 to 1961. These where his formative years.

He created an important body of work as the senior partner of Buff Straub and Hensmen, both previous students at USC. His work was widely published in Sunset Magazine and considered highly influential in shaping the vision iconography of the post-world war II contemporary southern Californian style. His and the firms work bridged the gap between the influences of early arts and crafts architects and the early California modernists, creating a uniquely regional architectural form. For this work and his educational contributions he was described in "Toward a simpler way of Life" as "the father of California post and beam architecture".

Moving to Scottsdale, AZ in 1961 and joining the faculty at the College of Architecture at Arizona State University. Few architects and educators have had such a pervasive influence on architecture as Calvin C Straub.. His desert residence continued and extended the legacy of "design with climate" that he had begun decades earlier in southern California and preceded the now popular "green movement" in architecture by some 30 years. This era was the foundation influence on generations of archictects and students through his professorship of design at Arizona State University in Tempe. Here his "world architecture" class attended by more than 15,000 general university students who were influenced by his contagious,jovial and animated love affair with the art of environmental design.

He Received over 30 Honors and AIA awards. Apart from his work as an architect and lecturer, he also published Design Process and Communications (1978) and The Man-Made Environment: An Introduction to World Architecture and Design (1983). He retired in 1988 and died in 1998. His archives, drawings, project records, awards and project photographs many by famed Architectural photographer Julius Shulman are archived at the Arizona Sate University School of architecture library and archive.

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Early life and influences. Arts and Crafts meets mid-century modern. Designing with climate the world and beyond. The twilight years.