Robert Little

Robert Andrews Little (1919–2005) was a modernist architect based in Cleveland, Ohio. He received the Cleveland Arts Prize for Architecture in 1965. Little practiced in the Bauhaus and International styles. He also designed and advocated energy-efficient features, and employed Jewish and African-American architects and engineers. a member of the locally prominent Halle department store family. Little and his wife had two sons, Robert and Revere. Revere was a noteworthy folk singer.

Work Little's first commission, the Halle Brothers department store at Shaker Square built in 1948, is on the National Register of Historic Places. Halle Brothers Shaker Square department store (1948), located between the Shaker Square Cinemas and the rapid transit station, was his first commission. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and won the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce Award for Commercial Building as well as the Architects’ Society of Ohio Medal for Commercial Building. Albert Pick Music Library at the University of Miami Timken residence in Canton, Ohio Little invented and patented a pre-computer design tool called Solux "that allowed him to trace the path of the sun over a cardboard model mechanically, instead of having to use laborious mathematical calculations," used for lighting calculations.