Beatty (& Beatty) & Strang
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Hamilton Beatty, Gwenydd (Chewett) Beatty, and Allen Strang were architects who together designed the first International Style buildings in and around Madison, Wisconsin from 1930 to 1941. The Beattys worked together on a houses and proposed plans from 1930 to 1934, while Strang designed two houses outside of Madison in 1934. Beginning in 1935, Hamilton Beatty and Strang worked together on at least 36 houses, school additions, and some proposed plans. (Gwenydd Beatty apparently had no role in that work.) In 1940, Beatty left Madison and became an industrial designer. In 1942, Strang went to Chicago to work for the Federal Housing Authority.[1][unreliable source?]
Hamilton (Ham) Beatty (1907-1992) was born in Madison. His father was a professor in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Although asked by his father to take a degree in English, Beatty also studied architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College, London, and worked for a local architect during the summer. While in England, he met Gwenydd Chewett, also a student at Bartlett. They married in 1929. After a regular job was ended by the stock market crash, Ham worked voluntarily under Le Corbusier until 1930. The couple then moved to Madison.[2]
Allen Strang (1906-1996) was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin. Strang studied engineering at the University of Wisconsin, then architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. A travelling fellowship allowed him to spend a year touring Europe in 1931. He worked under Paul Cret in Philadelphia and Law, Law & Potter in Madison before returning to Richland Center to open his own practice. In 1935, he moved to Madison to go into business with Ham Beatty; they had been fraternity brothers.