Robert Lawton Jones
Robert "Bob" Lawton Jones (1925-2018) was an American architect and academic recognized for his contributions to modernist architecture. Background and Career. Bob Jones was born in McAlester, Oklahoma on May 12, 1925 and remained there through graduation from high school in 1943, enlisting in and serving the Navy as a midshipman during the rest of World War II. After the war, Jones attended the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated in 1949, with a bachelor's degree in architecture. While a student at Notre Dame, Jones worked for the noted architectural firm Perkins and Will  in nearby Chicago during the summer, later joining that firm upon graduation. After two years at Perkins and Will, Jones pursued graduate study in architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology under noted modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, "one of the great figures of 20th-century architecture", who led the IIT School of Architecture from 1938 to 1958.