b.
Ottawa, Illinois, 1948
education
Taylorvile High School, Tayorville (Illinois), 1966
BArch, U of Illinois, Champaign, 1971
MArch, Harvard GSD, 1975
teaching
U of Illinois, Champaign, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Asst. Prof. (Arch. Design, Arch. Theory), 1977-79
U of Colorado, Boulder, College of Env. Design, Asst. Prof. (Arch. Design, Basic Design, Arch. Theory, Design Drawing), 1982-84
internships and early practice
Spangler Beall Salogga Bradley and Albers, Decatur (Illinois)
Muchow Associates, Denver
Bull Field Volkmann Stockwell, San Francisco
Kaplan McLaughlin, San Francisco
Heller and Leake, San Francisco
Ripley Bogatay, San Francisco
Wallace Roberts and Todd, San Francisco
later practice
Roma Design Group, San Francisco
Skidmore Owings and Merrill, San Francisco
Leritz Design, San Francisco
All paintings, drawings, photographs, and writings are those of J. Leritz with the following exceptions: photographs used in connection with the essays are taken from the internet (photographers are unknown). One of the texts ("US Vetoes...") is a reorganization of information from Krysstal, a British educational organization. Accordingly, that text is so noted in its introduction. "The Obama Presidency" is a compilation of excerpts by various writers that appeared on Znet or in Zmagazine, which is so noted in the introduction to that text. The various writer's are identified in red following their text.