Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects

Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman & Associates Architects LLC (formerly Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects) is a New York City-based architectural firm founded in 1967 by architects Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel.

Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman & Associates Architects LLC
FormerlyGwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects
Company typeArchitecture firm
Founded1967
HeadquartersNew York City, United States
Key people
Charles Gwathmey, Robert Siegel, Gene Kaufman
Websitewww.gwathmey-siegel.com

The firm's work ranges from art and educational facilities and major corporate buildings to furniture systems and decorative art objects.[1] Critics view Gwathmey Siegel's work as the stylistic successors of the formal modernism of Swiss architect Le Corbusier.[2] The firm is especially well known for its residential architecture[3][4] having designed houses for famous clients such as Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, and Ronald Lauder.[2] The architecture critic, Paul Goldberger, writing in 2005, described their houses as "expertly crafted, staggeringly expensive, and not particularly avant-garde."[5]

History

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Gwathmey and Siegel met while students at The High School of Music & Art in New York City in the 1950s.[6]

The firm designed place settings for American Airlines.[7]

Gene Kaufman joined the firm as partner soon after Charles Gwathmey died of cancer in August 2009.[8] He acquired a majority share and his name was added to the firm.[9]

Archives from the firm were donated to Yale in 2010.[10]

Selected works

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Basketball in the sky above the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

References

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  1. ^ Ojeda, Oscar Riera (1995), Ten Houses: Gwathmey Siegel, Rockport, Mass.: Rockport Publishers, Inc., ISBN 1-56496-216-4
  2. ^ a b Goldberger, Paul (March 12, 1995), "Houses as Art; The Masterpieces They Call Home", The New York Times
  3. ^ Kershaw, Sarah (September 23, 2010). "Gwathmey-Designed Apartment for Sale" – via NYTimes.com.
  4. ^ Vogel, Carol (December 27, 1987). "A Change of Space" – via NYTimes.com.
  5. ^ a b Goldberger, Paul (May 2, 2005), "Green Monster", The New Yorker
  6. ^ "Notable Alumni," Alumni and Friends of LaGuardia High School website. Accessed Feb. 29, 2016.
  7. ^ "CURRENTS; Designs for Dining At 39,000 Feet". May 3, 1990 – via NYTimes.com.
  8. ^ Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, Firm Profile, retrieved 2008-08-29
  9. ^ Pogrebin, Robin (June 6, 2011). "Architect Acquires Majority Share of Gwathmey Siegel".
  10. ^ Pogrebin, Robin (December 20, 2010). "Architectural Archives Donated to Yale".
  11. ^ Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl (May 1, 2017). Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects, Second Edition. University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295806891 – via Google Books.
  12. ^ "Architecture View; AN INGENIOUS ADVANCE IN HOUSING DESIGN; by Ada Louise Huxtable". October 4, 1981 – via NYTimes.com.
  13. ^ "POSTINGS: Columbia Dormitory; A New Facade". June 23, 1991 – via NYTimes.com.
  14. ^ Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects (1998). Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects: Selected and Current Works. Master architect series III. Images Publishing. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-875498-74-1.
  15. ^ Linn, Charles (January 2003), "Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame", Architectural Record
  16. ^ "Buffalo Spree Magazine".
  17. ^ Pogrebin, Robin (July 1, 2006), "Renovating a Master's Shrine: Yale's Art and Architecture Building", The New York Times
  18. ^ "POSTINGS: Gwathmey Siegel to Do Building Near U.N.; Architect Set for U.S. Mission". August 23, 1998 – via NYTimes.com.
  19. ^ Chaban, Matt A. V. (January 4, 2016). "Architect's Modernist Legacy Crosses the Hudson" – via NYTimes.com.
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