Legendary Black architect, Paul Revere Williams, helped build modern Los Angeles Replay Video UP NEXT Architect Paul Revere Williams was born in Los Angeles in 1894 and rose to prominence designing homes and public buildings. The Los Angeles-born legend helped build and shape modern L.A. as we know it. The archive of nearly six decades of his work, including photos by famed photographer Julius Schulman, has been jointly acquired by the Getty Research Institute and the USC School of Architecture. "There's a real excitement I think around Paul Williams, particularly in Southern California. I think we just want to leverage that and also help people understand the complexity of Paul Williams," Milton Curry, the dean of the architecture school at USC, said.