Cass Gilbert
From Archiplanet
| Cass Gilbert | |
| Born | 1859; Zanesville, Ohio, USA |
| Died | 1934; New York, N.Y. |
| Notes | |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/architects/Cass_Gilbert.html |
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Works
- U.S. Supreme Court, at Washington, D.C., 1935. Archiplanet page GreatBuildings page
- Woolworth Building, at New York, New York, 1910 to 1913. Archiplanet page GreatBuildings page
Discussion
(b. Zanesville, Ohio 1859; d. New York, N.Y. 1934)
Cass Gilbert was born in Zanesville, Ohio in 1859. Introduced to architecture as a draughtsman and carpenter's assistant, Gilbert enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1878 as a pupil of William Ware. After studying for two years, he took a European tour. Upon his return he joined the firm of McKim, Mead & White. In 1882 he established a partnership with James Knox Taylor in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The fairly pedestrian designs created by Gilbert's firm did not prevent it from gaining popularity. The majority of buildings the firm designed were gothicized skyscrapers, the most famous of which was the Woolworth Building.
Works designed by the firm during the early 1930s were competent Classical buildings which lack the originality of such contemporary Modernists as Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
References
Dennis Sharp. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Quatro Publishing, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. NA40.I45. p65.
