David Elgin Dodge was born in London, England, on April 1, 1930, to parents Horace E. Dodge Jr. and Muriel Sisman. He was the grandson of Horace Elgin Dodge, the co-founder of the Dodge Brothers Car Company of Hamtramck, Michigan. David attended Oberlin College, majoring in music in addition to studying the pipe organ at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, CT. In September 1951, David was accepted into the renowned Taliesin Fellowship by Frank Lloyd Wright and lived at both Taliesin locations (Wisconsin and Phoenix) designing houses and buildings throughout the world, including the Gammage Auditorium in Tempe, AZ. He met his wife Anneliese in Montagnola, Switzerland. In 1971, he submitted his own futuristic design for the Horace E. Dodge Memorial Fountain at Hart Plaza in Detroit, Michigan, however, the eleven-member artist selection committee ended up choosing the current design by architect Isamu Noguchi. David was also an instructor of Architectural Concepts at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture in 2021 and was awarded the Taliesin Fellows Lifetime Achievement Award that will be presented to the Dodge family in November 2022 at Taliesin West where he had resided for many decades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGKj_ojQx88&t=43s
https://franklloydwright.org/daviddodge/
https://www.phoenixsymphony.org/article/in-memoriam-david-elgin-dodge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGKj_ojQx88&t=43s
https://franklloydwright.org/daviddodge/
https://www.phoenixsymphony.org/article/in-memoriam-david-elgin-dodge
David Elgin Dodge was born in London, England, on April 1, 1930, to parents Horace E. Dodge Jr. and Muriel Sisman. He was the grandson of Horace Elgin Dodge, the co-founder of the Dodge Brothers Car Company of Hamtramck, Michigan. David attended Oberlin College, majoring in music in addition to studying the pipe organ at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, CT. In September 1951, David was accepted into the renowned Taliesin Fellowship by Frank Lloyd Wright and lived at both Taliesin locations (Wisconsin and Phoenix) designing houses and buildings throughout the world, including the Gammage Auditorium in Tempe, AZ. He met his wife Anneliese in Montagnola, Switzerland. In 1971, he submitted his own futuristic design for the Horace E. Dodge Memorial Fountain at Hart Plaza in Detroit, Michigan, however, the eleven-member artist selection committee ended up choosing the current design by architect Isamu Noguchi. David was also an instructor of Architectural Concepts at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture in 2021 and was awarded the Taliesin Fellows Lifetime Achievement Award that will be presented to the Dodge family in November 2022 at Taliesin West where he had resided for many decades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGKj_ojQx88&t=43s
https://franklloydwright.org/daviddodge/
https://www.phoenixsymphony.org/article/in-memoriam-david-elgin-dodge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGKj_ojQx88&t=43s
https://franklloydwright.org/daviddodge/
https://www.phoenixsymphony.org/article/in-memoriam-david-elgin-dodge
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