The brothers, Jim and John Webb, were born in Aguascalientes, Mexico. They worked in the office of William Wilson Wurster.
JAMES MURRAY (JIM) WEBB (1908-2000)
James Murray Webb was born in 1908. He attended Pomona College and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1937. Many consider him the pioneer of a new native modernist architecture in Chapel Hill during the 1950s.
JOHN BRUCE WEBB (1910-1997)
John Bruce Webb was born in 1910. Like his brother Jim, he was a younger brother and a brilliant designer. In the early 1950s, Jim And John Webb both worked as architects for Albert Kahn. John worked as a painter for decades, traveling worldwide, including Athens, Paris, London, and Saudi Arabia, until he retired to his family home in Berkeley.
