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.

Not to be confused with Robert Siegel Architects.
Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman & Associates Architects LLC
FormerlyGwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects
TypeArchitecture firm
Founded1967
HeadquartersNew York City, United States
Key people
Charles Gwathmey, Robert Siegel, Gene Kaufman
Websitehttp://www.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 such famous clients 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

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 majority share and his name was added to the firm.[9]

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

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

References
  1. Ojeda, Oscar Riera (1995), Ten Houses: Gwathmey Siegel, Rockport, Mass.: Rockport Publishers, Inc., ISBN 1-56496-216-4
  2. 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. 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. Linn, Charles (January 2003), "Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame", Architectural Record
  15. "Buffalo Spree Magazine".
  16. Pogrebin, Robin (July 1, 2006), "Renovating a Master's Shrine: Yale's Art and Architecture Building", The New York Times
  17. "POSTINGS: Gwathmey Siegel to Do Building Near U.N.; Architect Set for U.S. Mission". August 23, 1998 – via NYTimes.com.
  18. Chaban, Matt A. V. (January 4, 2016). "Architect's Modernist Legacy Crosses the Hudson" – via NYTimes.com.
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