Barton Myers

Barton Myers (born November 6, 1934) is an American and Canadian architect and president of Barton Myers Associates Inc. in Los Angeles, California. With a career spanning more than 40 years, Myers is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and was a member of the Ontario Association of Architects while working in Canada earlier in his career.

Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Myers is a descendant of Moses Myers, "the first permanent Jewish settler in Norfolk, Virginia. Within four years of settling, he had established a five-vessel fleet for his import-export business and built a classic Georgian townhouse." The "early Federal style townhouse (1792) sits amidst the bustle of downtown Norfolk and is one of the first red, Flemish-bond brick homes built after the American Revolution." Myers has served as an Advisory Committee Board Member to Moses Myers House/Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia since 1999.

His grandfather (also named Barton Myers, 1853-1927) was a former Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia, was once one of the city's most prominent citizens and "served on the board of the 1907 Jamestown Exposition." In 2007, the Chrysler Museum of Art mounted an exhibition about his life significant contributions to Norfolk, Virginia at the Moses Myers House.

Myers graduated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and served as a jet fighter pilot for five years in the United States Air Force, based first in the western United States and then (for three years) in the United Kingdom. He attended architecture courses at Oxford and at Cambridge University, and returned to the United States to study architecture. He received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania and subsequently worked with Louis Kahn from 1964 to 1966.

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