Robert Mosher was an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright who worked on Fallingwater, and is mentioned in Wright's diary's of Fallingwater. NOTE: there are TWO Robert Moshers. One worked with Frank Lloyd Wright, ONLY, the other designed the Coronado Bridge, among other buildings and structures, and met with Frank Lloyd Wright when working with House Beautiful Magazine.
"Every material has its own eloquent message, its own lyrical song, and no one has made them sing so beautifully as Frank Lloyd Wright."He is also known for his own works which include the San Diego-Coronado Bridge on which he was the principal architect .
Mosher also was the architect of the University of California, San Diego's John Muir College which was built in the late 1960s, and whose powerful concrete architecture represents the focal point of San Diego's modernist design heritage, which has won a recently won a $100,000 grant from the Getty Foundation to protect its distinctive buildings.
"Even at a relatively young age of 40, the college still finds it necessary to devise a program to protect its signature cluster of buildings and connecting courtyards, which have strong ties to local architects," said Susan Smith, Muir College provost.
Smith said the grant will allow UCSD to hire an outside consultant to survey Muir College's architectural heritage and to devise initial steps for a long-term preservation plan. The award is part of a wider Getty program focused on preservation of important architecture at colleges and universities nationwide.
San Diego-Coronado Bridge
- Principal architect: Robert Mosher
- Opened on August 3, 1969
- In 1970, it won the Most Beautiful Bridge Award from the American Institute of Construction
- 2.12 miles (11,179 feet) long
- cost $50 million to build
- retrofitting will cost $70–150 million
- 20,000 tons of steel (13,000 tons in structural steel and 7,000 in reinforcing steel)
- 94,000 cubic yards of concrete
- 900,000 cubic yards of dredged fill
- some caissons for the towers were drilled and blasted 100 feet into the bed of the San Diego Bay
- 4.67% grade from Coronado to San Diego
- side railings are concrete blocks only 34 inches high
- over 50 people work 24 hours a day, seven days a week to maintain the bridge and take its tolls
- the grade and the 90-degree angle turn is to create clearance for an empty aircraft carrier to pass beneath it
- the bridge is the third largest orthogonal box in the country - the box is the center part of the bridge, between piers 18-21 over main shipping channel
- 2,850 of curved steel is contain the largest such segments in the country