American designer and writer. He worked in a variety of editorial and management positions at Architectural Forum from 1934 to 1939 and published a number of Breuer projects, including the New Kensington Defense Housing and the Chamberlain Cottage (both executed in partnership with Walter Gropius). Nelson also invited Gropius and Breuer to enter the competition for the Wheaton College Art Center. In 1946, Nelson became design director for the Herman Miller Furniture Co., helping to increase that firm’s prominence through his own designs and those of designers such as Charles and Ray Eames.