Roy Mason (architect), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 29-Jun-1938
Date of Death: 19-May-1996
Profession: architect
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Roy Mason (architect)
- Roy Mason (June 29, 1938 – May 19, 1996) was an American lecturer, writer, and futuristic architect who designed and built a variety of futuristic homes and other buildings in the 1970s and 1980s using low cost materials and alternative energy sources.
- Always forward looking, in 1978 Mason created plans for a fifty-home community of solar-powered houses in Columbia, Maryland, that was to be called "Solar Village".
- Mason invented architronics, which was exemplified in his Xanadu homes.
- Mason was a founding member of the World Future Society, the publisher of Futurist Magazine.
- He also co-designed their first logo.
- In the 1980s Mason was the architecture editor of the Futurist magazine.
- He was also the first executive director of the Home Automation Association. Mason was very interested in modern education.
- He designed a sprayed foam building for an experimental college called College of the Potomac in Paris, Virginia, in 1971.
- He also donated his time and talents to the Capital Children's Museum in Washington, D.C., where he created several forward-looking exhibits.Mason worked and lived most of his life in and around Washington, D.C.
- In 1996, at age 57, he was killed by a man named Christopher Robin Hatton at the architect's home in the 4200 block of Military Road NW.
- Christopher Hatton, in a drug-induced rage and demanding money from Mason, bludgeoned Mason with a hammer twenty-five times (per the autopsy).
- Christopher Robin Hatton was sentenced to fourteen years for the murder of Roy Mason.
- Mason's lover of many years, Brian Carneal, had died a year earlier of complications related to HIV.
- When Mason wasn't in Washington, D.C., he and Carneal resided in Delaware at their Dupont Estate.
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