Ossipoff, Snyder and Rowland Architects, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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| Architecture Firm | Ossipoff, Snyder and Rowland Architects |
| People | Sidney E. Snyder Jr., AIA |
| Address | 1210 Ward Ave. |
| Honolulu, Hawaii, 96814 USA | |
| Telephone | (808) 536-3808 |
| Fax | (808) 599-5953 |
| Web Site | |
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[edit] Services
Accessibility/ADA, Adaptive Reuse, Addition/Alteration, Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation, Planning, Renovation
[edit] Focus
Aquatic Facilities, Banking/Financial, Classrooms, Clubhouses, Colleges and Universities, Municipal Facilities, Museums, Offices, Recreational Facilities, Religious Facilities, Senior/Assisted Living, Single Family Residential, Zoological and Aquarium
[edit] Projects
• Outrigger Canoe Club, Hawaii
- Goodsill House, Hawaii
- Blanche House, Hawaii
- Hill House, Hawaii
- Pauling House, Hawaii
- University of Hawaii Administration Building
- IBM Building, Honalulu, Hawaii
- Honolulu Airport Terminal
[edit] History
"Vladimir Ossipoff was born in Russia in 1907 to a military attaché for the czar who was assigned with his family to Japan. In 1923, Ossipoff moved with his mother, brother and sister to California. His father, who stayed on in Japan, was killed in an accident shortly after their departure.
"Ossipoff graduated with an architecture degree at the University of California-Berkeley and moved to Honolulu. Hawaii became his permanent home, and he died at age 90 in 1998.
"[Dean] Sakamoto says Ossipoff's years in Japan left him with a strong sensibility for "shibui," an understated aesthetic that, along with Ossipoff's frugality and love of nature, informed his style and undoubtedly contributed to his mastery of the lanai concept.
""Ossipoff once said that the ideal house in Hawaii is an umbrella. That, in essence, is the lanai," says Sakamoto. "(It) goes back to the hale complex, where there was one closed grass shack and a thatched roof held up by four columns. But the lanai itself is in essence a nonbuilding, and it takes restraint to create. ... It's about creating a structure so great that it's not even noticeable."" — Honolulu Star-Bulletin
[edit] References
Form function style - Dean Sakamoto assembles an exhibit on a famed architect and learns from him, as well, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 2007.1116
