新利18备用埃德西姆最为自豪地宣布罗伯特P麦迪逊，法院 - 克利夫兰建筑公司，罗伯特P麦迪逊国际，Inc。和前AIA克利夫兰总统的主管人士，已被评为2019年遗产奖荣誉。

96麦迪逊，96，从2016年的全日制练习退休，并将他的公司卖给了CFO Robert Klann和他的侄子，R.Kevin Madison及其妻子桑德拉·麦迪逊，它仍然是RPMI，Inc。今天，但他的生命故事很多超过他的工作或发生的时间。

麦迪逊于1937年从华盛顿特区搬回克利夫兰，所以他会有机会在高中学习建筑。新利18备用1940年，他被霍华德大学被认为是一个建筑学生。第二次世界大战当他在霍华德学习时，他在第92次步兵中致电，然后将美新利18备用国军队作为水牛士兵，第二中尉。他的单位是在战争期间唯一一个在意大利在地上战斗中战斗的非裔美国人单位。他被弹片受伤，摧毁了他在战斗中驾驶的吉普车，以获得他的紫心灵，在战争后立即恢复并花费了在他恢复的时候恢复了意大利的经典建筑。新利18备用

After the war, Madison decided to enroll in the architecture program at Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University) in Cleveland, only to be summarily denied access based on his race. He returned in full dress uniform, with his Purple Heart medal displayed, and declared they could not keep him out of college and deny him the freedom he personally fought for. Under duress, he was admitted, but told by the administrators that he would never work as an architect.

他们有多错了。After graduating from Western Reserve, Madison got his Master of Architecture Degree from Harvard University, studying under Walter Gropius, and was granted a Fulbright Fellowship in Architecture and Urban Design to study at the L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris where he received instruction from Le Corbusier and Eugene Freyssinet. In 1954, after teaching architecture at Howard, he returned to Cleveland and started RPMI, reasoning that the only way to effect the social change he wanted to see was to open an African-American-owned architecture firm to employ people of color. It was only the 10th African-American-owned architecture firm in the US. This was only the beginning of many accomplishments and contributions to American society, including working as either associate architect, architect of record or design architect on the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the American Embassy in Senegal, Cleveland Browns Stadium, Quicken Loans Arena, the engineering and nuclear facility in Tuskegee, Ala., and buildings for Cuyahoga Community College and Cleveland State University. Exactly 25 years after Madison was told he would never work as an architect, Madison was elected President of AIA's Cleveland chapter and admitted to the college of fellows.

"I learned early on," Madison says, "That the halls of academe and the corner offices of the workplace are not the only way stations where one learns about life."

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