Charles Gwathmey

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 Charles Gwathmey
Title FAIA
Born June 19, 1938; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Died August 03, 2009; New York, New York, USA
Education University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture, Yale University
Firms Gwathmey-Siegel, Paul Rudolph, Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, New York, New York, USA
Notes http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Gwathmey-Siegel.html

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Charles Gwathmey

Charles Gwathmey (June 19, 1938 – August 3, 2009) was an American architect. He was a principal at Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, LLP, as well as one of the five architects identified as The New York Five in 1969. One of Gwathmey's most famous designs is the 1992 renovation of Frank Lloyd Wright's

Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, he was the son of the American painter Robert Gwathmey and photographer Rosalie Gwathmey. Charles Gwathmey attended the University of Pennsylvania and received his Master of Architecture degree in 1962 from Yale School of Architecture, where he won both The William Wirt Winchester Fellowship as the outstanding graduate and a Fulbright Grant.

Affiliations

Gwathmey has served as President of the Board of Trustees for The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies and was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1981.

Awards/honors

Gwathmey was the recipient of the Brunner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1970, and in 1976 he was elected to the Academy. In 1983, he won the Medal of Honor from the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and in 1985, he received the first Yale Alumni Arts Award from the Yale School of Architecture. In 1988 the Guild Hall Academy of Arts awarded Gwathmey its Lifetime Achievement Medal in Visual Arts, followed in 1990 by a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York State Society of Architects.

Career

From 1965 through 1991, Gwathmey taught at Pratt Institute, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Princeton University, Columbia University, the University of Texas, and the University of California at Los Angeles. He was Davenport Professor (1983 and 1999) and Bishop Professor (1991) at Yale, and the Eliot Noyes Visiting Professor at Harvard University (1985). Gwathmey was the spring 2005 William A. Bernoudy Resident in Architecture at the American Academy in Rome.

Gwathmey's firm designed the Museum Of Contemporary Art of North Miami, Florida in 1995, and the Astor Place Tower, a 21-story condominium project in Manhattan's East Village, in 2005.

He died of esophageal cancer on August 3, 2009, aged 71.

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  • Abercrombie, Stanley, Gwathmey Siegel, New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1981. ISBN 0823072576. NA737.G95 A83
  • Five houses, Gwathmey Siegel Architects : December 15, 1977 to January 15, 1978. New York, N.Y. : Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, <1980?>
  • Collins, Brad, and Kasprowicz, Diane, eds., Gwathmey Siegel: Buildings and Projects, 1982-1992, New York: Rizzoli, 1993. ISBN 0847816753.
  • Goldberger, Paul. Gwathmey Siegel Houses. New York: Monacelli Press, 2000. ISBN 1580930158.
  • Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects. Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects :

selected and current works. Mulgrave, Vic. : Images Publishing, 1998.Reference NA737.G95 A4 1998.

  • Goldberger, Paul, "A Design for Orderly Living," New York Times Magazine, December 11, 1977, pp. 146-48, 163-67, 170.
  • "In Times Square, Dignity by Day, Glitter by Night," by Paul Golderberger, New York Times, February 10, 1991, Sec. 2, pp. 32, 34.
  • Goodman, Wendy, "[Gwathmey on the Rise," Harper's Bazaar, July 1995, pp. 118-23, 136, 138.
  • Purdum, Todd S., "The Clintons Shop Architects," New York Times, August 13, 1998, pp. F1, F10.
  • Russell, Beverly, "Gwathmey Siegel at 25," Interiors, September 1993, pp. 55-83.
  • Taylor, John, "Born Again: The New Guggenheim," New York, June 1, 1992, pp. 30-33, 36-39.
  • Collins, Brad & Gwathmey, Charles. Gwathmey Siegel: Buildings and Projects 1965-2000. Universe. 2000. ISBN 0789304015
  • “Malibu modernism: complex rhythms animate a sleek oceanfront house.” Paul Goldberger. Architectural digest 2000 Nov., v.57, n.11, p.[256]-[263],324.
  • “Library as urban placemaker: a metal box full of ideas for Salt Lake City's new library.” Brian Taggart. Competitions 2000 Summer, p.[40]-53. , ISSN 1058-6539.
  • “Gwathmey Siegel at the CUNY Graduate Center.” / Jayne Markel. Oculus 2000 May-June, v.62, n.9, p.15.
  • High intensity: complex rhythms scaled for a Manhattan pied-à-terre. Paul Goldberger.
  • Architectural digest 1999 Nov., v.56, n.11, p.202-[209],296.
  • An interview with Charles Gwathmey. Cynthia Davidson. Any 1995, n.11, p.50-53.
  • Gwathmey Siegel: Belvedere Residence, Belvedere, California, U.S.A.. GA houses 1999 Feb., n.59, p.[71]-73.
  • James S. McDonnell Hall, Princeton University. Kira L Gould. Architectural record 1998 Oct., v.186, n.10, p.150-153. GA houses 1998 Mar., n.55, p.53-55.
  • “The new Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL) in the former B. Altman department store in New York city.” Architectural record 1996 Sept., v.184, n.9, p.84-[91].
  • “Gwathmey Siegel: San Onofore residence, California, U.S.A.” Ga Houses 1996 Mar., n.48, p.48-51.
  • “Gwathmey Siegel: Zumikon Residence, Zumikon, Switzerland 1990-1993.”
  • A + U: architecture and urbanism 1996 jan., n.1(304), p.102-[115].
  • "Gwathmey Siegel: Theater Arts and Fine Arts Building, State University of New York at Buffalo,
  • Amherst, NY 1985 - 1992." A + U: architecture and urbanism 1995 Nov., n.11(302), p.46-[59].
  • "Falling water." Michael J. Crosbie. Progressive architecture 1995 Mar., v.76,n.3, p.64-67.
    • Renovation at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Renovation architects: Gwathmey Siegel. Original architect: Frank Lloyd Wright.
  • "Pretty pictures and urban renewal [Bronx, N.Y. ]" Hugo Lindgren. Metropolis 1994 Dec., v.14, n.5, p.28, 34.
  • "College bowl: designing for the urban campus: a roundtable discussion sponsored by Oculus and the Architectural League, June 21, 1994." Oculus 1994 Sept., v.57, n.1, p.6-10.
  • "A stage for Sony." Jean Gorman. Interiors 1994 May, v.153.n.5, p.118-[123].
  • "Gwathmey Siegel at 25: a new York architectural fimr with a strong interiors message / Beverly Russell." Interiors 1993 Sept., v.152, n.9, p.[55]-83.
  • "Born again: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum addition, renovation and restoration, New York City, Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, Architects." Carter Wiseman. Architectural record 1992 Oct., v.180, n.10, p.[100]-113.
  • "Gwathmey Siegel: the surprisingly human-scaled offices of Ronal S. Lauder." Edie Lee Cohen. Interior design 1992 Sept., v.63, n.12, p.[182]-187.

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