Ike Kligerman Barkley

Ike Kligerman Barkley is an American architectural firm established in 1989, with offices in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area.[1][2] The practice is led by partners and founders John Ike and Thomas A. Kligerman, and Joel Barkley, who joined as a partner in 1999.[3][4] The firm has designed buildings across the United States and elsewhere, and is most known for residences characterized by an eclectic approach to historical precedent, style, materials, and client tastes than a single aesthetic.[5][6][7] Architect, educator and architectural historian Robert A. M. Stern describes the partners as "modern traditionalists" whose work is "wonderfully consistent in quality and also wonderfully inconsistent in style."[8]

Ike Kligerman Barkley
IndustryArchitecture
FoundedNew York City, New York, United States (1989 (1989))
FounderJohn Ike, Thomas A. Kligerman
HeadquartersNew York City, Oakland, California
Area served
International
Key people
John Ike, Thomas A. Kligerman, Joel Barkley
ServicesArchitecture, Interior design
Number of employees
50
WebsiteIke Kligerman Barkley

Ike Kligerman Barkley (IKB) has been widely featured in publications such as Architectural Digest,[9] Elle Decor,[10] House Beautiful,[11] Veranda,[12] Luxe Interiors + Design,[13][14] and Ocean Home Magazine.[15] The firm has received the New York Chapter AIA Award, the Decoration and Design Building (DDB) Stars of Design Award, and the Institute of Classical Art and Architecture's Julia Morgan and Stanford White awards, among others.[16][17][18][4] It has regularly been among Architectural Digest's annual Top 100 Designers (AD100) since 1995.[19][20][21] Monacelli Press has published two monographs by the firm, Ike Kligerman Barkley: Houses (2010) and The New Shingled House (2015).[22][23] IKB's work has also been included in the books, The Art of Classical Details,[24] Decorating in Detail by Alexa Hampton,[25] and Inner Spaces: Paul Vincent Wiseman & The Wiseman Group,[26] Essence of Home: Timeless Elements of Design,[27] and New York Splendor: The City's Most Memorable Rooms.[28]

Partners and offices

Architects John Ike and Thomas A. Kligerman met at Columbia University and co-founded the firm, as Ike & Kligerman Architects, in 1989 in New York City.[29] Ike (born 1954) was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated with a biochemistry degree from Colorado College, before earning a master's degree at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture. He studied under and then worked for Robert A. M. Stern before co-founding Ike & Kligerman.[22] Ike has a particular interest in interior design and furniture and established the firm's interiors practice.[30] His design combines aesthetic influences from the built legacy, regional inflections such as Italian and Scandinavian precedents (often noted during travels), and the rational influence of his science background.[22][30][23]

Ike & Kligerman, Shinglish Country House, Deal, New Jersey, 1993

Thomas Kligerman (born 1957) earned architecture degrees from Columbia University (BA) and the Yale School of Architecture (MA), and began his career with Robert A. M. Stern Architects.[31] He attributes his interest in the history of domestic architecture, gardens and landscapes to his upbringing in Connecticut (where he first experienced shingled cottages) and New Mexico, and student years in England and France.[32][33] Kligerman was president of The Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation and lectures regularly on architectural history and the intersection of modern and traditional aesthetics.[33][2] In 2017, he was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome.[34]

Architect and partner Joel Barkley joined the firm in 1999, forming Ike Kligerman Barkley.[31][7] Barkley (born 1967, Chattanooga, Tennessee) studied at Georgia Institute of Technology (BS), Princeton University School of Architecture (MA, Architecture), and the École des Beaux-Arts at Fontainebleau.[22][35] Prior to IKB, he worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Robert A. M. Stern Architects, and Diller + Scofidio.[22][3] Barkley is a watercolorist who has illustrated several gardening books and maintains an organic garden. He notes the influence of both practices on his painterly approach to the composition of houses and gardens.[35][22][36]

IKB's New York headquarters are located in the art-deco, landmarked McGraw Hill Building, designed by Raymond Hood in West Midtown Manhattan.[30] Ike initially rented space on a per-desk basis there in 1988—on the firm’s current floor—when it was an open space shared by several firms.[30] As Ike & Kligerman, and then IKB, grew through the 1990s and 2000s, it annexed more space, finally occupying the whole floor by 2012, with a staff of 30.[3][30] The firm renovated the office in In 2017, creating an open, all-white, loft workspace.[30][2] In 2008, IKB opened a West Coast office, located as of 2019 in a loft space in downtown Oakland.[7][37]

Work

Architectural writers suggest hallmarks of Ike Kligerman Barkley design include: a high regard for historical precedent, balanced by contemporary taste; an emphasis on refined detail, materials and craft; and an ability to synthesize diverse forms and styles into harmonious designs that offer unusual, even unlikely combinations.[5][38][39][31] The firm's buildings have incorporated the vocabularies of the Arts and Crafts movement, Art Deco, Colonial Revival, Modernism, Shingle Style, and wide-ranging precedents such as Ernest Coxhead, Michael Graves, George Howe, Harrie T. Lindeberg, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Bernard Maybeck, McKim, Mead & White, Carlo Scarpa, and John F. Staub.[1][5][38][40][41] Robert A. M. Stern writes of the practice's "sure command" of architectural languages of the past, noting "they build upon what went before to extend the trajectory of architecture. Commenting on the past, they say new things."[8] The firm cites contextualism—responding to unique qualities of a site, such as light, landscape or climate, and identifying appropriate vernacular and historical references and forms—as a key tenet.[22][3][42]

Ike Kligerman Barkley, Watch Hill Aerie, A House in Rhode Island, 2014

Representative projects

IKB is primarily known for residential architecture, having produced houses across the United States and internationally in contexts from beachfront and seaside villas to countryside and mountainside lodges to city lofts and townhouses.[23][22][43] The firm has also designed public buildings and commercial spaces, including the award-winning Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research building.[16][44] Although Architectural Digest and others identify the firm more by its diverse influences, refined detailing and responsiveness to site, IKB is also widely associated with the roughly 150-year-old American Shingle Style. The style is reflected in residences it has built from California to New England, and its second monograph, The New Shingled House (2015).[39][45][42][23] Cottages & Gardens describes the firm's work in this vein as "a marriage of modernist versatility and traditional materials" which "reasserts the iconoclasm of an architecture that, now often watered-down, was once highly progressive."[46]

Shingled houses

Period Homes calls IKB's use of Shingle Style "a spur to creativity, to unorthodox speculation, to finding new answers to old questions,”[38] that often reconciles unusual or conflicting concepts, styles, and client preferences.[39][4] Ike & Kligerman's first shingle house synthesized two site-derived but contrasting styles—English Cottage (inspired by Lutyen's 1906 Folly Farm) and Shingle—into a hybrid style the firm dubbed "Shinglish."[39][23] Writers described the result, Shinglish Country House (Deal, New Jersey, 1993), as whimsical, with a steeply sloping, flared roof suggesting weightlessness, and earthbound, anchored by massive curved buttresses constructed from irregular clinker bricks.[47][22] The ICCA Stanford White Award-winning Black and White House (Connecticut, 2011) draws on historical English and Swedish country precedents, including details from the 18th-century home of botanist Carl Linnaeus; the rambling, two-story structure's graphic exterior features a black-painted board-and-batten treatment with white trim on one façade and stark white stucco on the other.[48][7][17] The Arts and Crafts Retreat (Michigan, 2003) similarly harmonizes English, Swedish and pan-European elements in the crafting of its exterior and interiors.[38][47] In the Southampton Beach House (Long Island, New York, 2014), the shingle style synthesizes an array of forms and features: gables, dormers, flared eaves, curved outer walls, a belvedere, and a prominent, sculpturally anchoring chimney.[6][46] Architectural Digest described the home as refreshing, an "authentic homage to the asymmetrical lines and inventive quirks that […] are Shingle Style's hallmarks."[6]

IKB often places Shingle Style in what some call "productive tension" with modernist design; its hand-hewn visual roughness and emphasis on traditional materials and craft offer a counterpoint, yet share modernist interests in functionality and composition.[46][49] For example, Watch Hill Aerie (Rhode Island, 2014) balances classic New England Shingle vernacular with contemporary flair, drawing on the geometry of origami and the notion of a sculptor carving out form from a block of marble to create unique, near-abstract volumes.[38][31] Period Homes wrote, "Architectural juxtaposition abounds in this new, old house,"[38] whose maritime-inspired shapes, colors, details and décor reflect its water-edge location.[31][39] In other cases, such as Southampton Beach House and the Sagaponack House (Rhode Island, 2014), this reconciliation occurs within the homes; both combine classical shingle exteriors that match indigenous architecture with spare, modern interiors.[6][50][47]

In other cases, the local landscape figures as a primary influence. The thrusting, muscular mountain setting of Blue Ridge Lodge (South Carolina, 2015) suggested a comparably dramatic architecture, rather than the restful horizontality often expected in waterfront houses.[32][23] The resulting design's curved forms provide a sweeping elegance, while a roof pierced by three towers suggests an undulating terrain interrupted by dramatic verticals.[32]

Ike Kligerman Barkley, Mexico Beach Retreat, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, 2009

Other residential projects

IKB's stylistic range extends beyond Shingle Style in numerous designs responding to diverse conditions, vernacular styles and client preferences.[51][52] In Green Springs Farm (Louisa, Virginia (2004), the firm reconciled the clients' desire for an informal farmhouse with a historic locale known for symmetrical, classical homes. It combines iconic formal elements of traditional southern homes with a rambling, seemingly ad-hoc assemblage of Acropolis-inspired, white Greek Revival forms.[53] Hawaiian Longhouse (Maui, Hawaii, 2004) offers a diametrically contrasting aesthetic and geography, resurrecting the single-story, thatched-roof Polynesian longhouse style—including a soaring great room—unexpectedly paired with Shingle-Style features and a second-level master offering ocean views.[7][22] The Tropical Split-Level (Kaanapali, Hawaii, 2006) distills island, bungalow and Mediterranean elements in a contemporary design that freed the vernacular styles of strict precedent.[54] Mexico Beach Retreat (Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, 2009) uses a "divided house" approach to integrate a mandated Mexican village vernacular style with contemporary villa design; the street-facing exterior features traditional peaked tile roofs and multipane windows, while the ocean side offers sweeping, modern rounded forms, glass expanses and a curved, dissolving pool.[55][56][22]

Two seaside structure designs employ older European styles to respond to their sites.[57][22] The oceanside perch of Clifftop Villa (New Jersey, 1999) prompted an anglicized Italianate design inspired by Georgian-era architect John Nash; its classical yet asymmetrical composition presents a different character from each angle, rendered in restrained but romantic materials and colors.[22] The tall, stone Norman House on the Sound (Greenwich, Connecticut, 2004) draws on the owners' regard for ancient Cistercian abbeys to solve the problem of an extraordinarily long and narrow waterfront property; the resulting structure is a modern house of contrasts—a loft-like floor plan, Gothic arches, gable ends, and chimneys made with venerable materials—that suggests a fragment of something once larger.[57][7][22]

IKB has also designed many city dwellings.[58][59][60][61] The Loft in Tribeca (New York City, 2000) explored postindustrial vocabulary with a play between old and new, transforming a 3,600-square-foot, former butter warehouse into a modern apartment with free-floating, overlapping horizontal and vertical planes whose spaces slip into one another and escape the building's imposed industrial grid.[59][22] River Oaks Townhouse (Houston, Texas, 2005) is a late-Georgian-style town house inspired by the iconic, three-story Nathaniel Russell House (1808), which combines the past with a modern mix of elements such as a wavelike balustrade and art deco stained glass window.[62] In 2017, the firm redesigned a SoHo Loft for actress Meg Ryan.[58]

Ike Kligerman Barkley, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University, California, 2010.

Public buildings

IKB designed the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research building, which was recognized with an ICCA Julia Morgan Award for Excellence in the Classical Tradition.[16] The 35,000-square foot facility's detailing and materials echo the Romanesque architecture of the campus's original quadrangles and historical Bakewell and Brown buildings.[7][63] The firm's AIA design-award-winning Ramble Living Well Center (2009) in Asheville, North Carolina is notable for its sustainable elements, including a rainwater-collecting butterfly roof, passive solar and geothermal technologies, and use of local bluestone and granite materials.[64][65] The firm has also designed commercial spaces, including a new 5,000-square-foot Rizzoli Bookstore flagship (2015) on the ground floor of the Beaux-Arts St. James Building (designed in 1896 by Bruce Price) in Manhattan,[66][67][68] and an old-world industrial-styled coffee bar/retail showroom for the Manhattan textile retailer ALT for Living in the city's Flower District in 2014.[69]

Recognition

Ike Kligerman Barkley has been recognized with the AIA New York Chapter Award, the Decoration and Design Building (DDB) Stars of Design Award (2013), the Institute of Classical Art and Architecture's Julia Morgan (2014) and Stanford White (2014) awards, and the Hyland Award for Excellence in Architecture (2014), among others.[19][70][18][4] The firm has been included in the Architectural Digest Top 100 Designers (AD100) list numerous times from 1995– 2019,[71][19] the Luxe Interiors + Design Gold List (2014, 2015, 2018),[72][73] New York Spaces Top 50 Designers (2014), and the Ocean Home Top Coastal Architects list (2015–8).[74][75][76][15]

References
  1. The Monacelli Press, "Ike Kligerman Barkley Houses," The Monacelli Press website. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  2. Hadley Keller, "A Day with the Architects of Ike Kligerman Barkley," Architectural Digest, May 10, 2017. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  3. Architectural Digest, "2010 AD100: Ike Kligerman Barkley," Architectural Digest, January 1, 2010. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  4. The Monacelli Press, "The New Shingled House," The Monacelli Press website. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  5. Kathleen Hackett, "Power of Restraint," Veranda Magazine, August 2015, pp. 128–135.
  6. David Colman, "A Long Island Beach House Embraces Shingle Style," Architectural Digest, June 2015. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  7. Ted Loos, "Ike Kligerman Barkley Knows How to Elevate Relaxed Retreats," Introspective Magazine, January 11, 2012. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  8. Robert A. M. Stern, "Foreword," Ike Kligerman Barkley Houses, New York: The Monacelli Press, 2010. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  9. Dan Shaw, "Look Inside an Art-Filled Country Home in New York," Architectural Digest, June 2012. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  10. Vicky Lowry, "How An Accomplished Interior Designer Created A Dream Home In Her Hometown," Elle Décor, June 11, 2015. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  11. House Beautiful, "Master Class: Tom Kligerman on Crucial Details," House Beautiful, January 2017.
  12. Douglas Brenner, "Above the Surf," Veranda Magazine, August 2012, pp. 66–75.
  13. Jorge S. Arrango, "Forever Young," Luxe Interiors + Design Miami, May 2017. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  14. Tate Gunnerson, "Perfect Pitch," Luxe Interiors + Design Pacific Northwest, July 2014, pp. 265–277.
  15. Ocean Home Magazine, "Ocean Home 50: Our Top Coastal Architects of 2018," Ocean Home Magazine, October-November 2018. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  16. Institute of Classical Art and Architecture, "2014 Awards," Northern California Chapter, Julia Morgan Awards. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  17. Institute of Classical Art and Architecture, "Stanford White Awards," Winners From 2014. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  18. Home Builder Digest, " The Best Architects in California," Home Builder Digest, January 4, 2018. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  19. Architectural Digest, "100 New Design Ideas from the New AD100," Architectural Digest, January 2007.
  20. Architectural Digest, "Ike Kligerman Barkley," Architectural Digest, December 2017. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  21. Peter Lyden, "Classicism Abounds in the Architectural Digest 100," Institute of Classical Art and Architecture, December 18, 2016. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  22. Ike Kligerman Barkley, Ike Kligerman Barkley Houses, Foreword by Robert A. M. Stern, New York: The Monacelli Press, 2010. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  23. John Ike, Thomas A. Kligerman, and Joel Barkley, with Marc Kristal, The New Shingled House, New York: The Monacelli Press, 2015. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  24. Phillip Dodd, The Art of Classical Details: Theory, Design & Craftsmanship, mages Publishing, 2013. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  25. Alexa Hampton, Decorating in Detail, Potter Style, 2013. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  26. Brian Coleman, Inner Spaces: Paul Vincent Wiseman & The Wiseman Group, Gibbs Smith, 2014. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  27. Liesl Geiger, [https://www.amazon.com/Essence-Home-Timeless-Elements-Design/dp/B00740KFKY Essence of Home: Timeless Elements of Design, New York: The Monacelli Press, 2007. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  28. Wendy Moonan, New York Splendor: The City's Most Memorable Rooms, New York: Rizzoli, 2018. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  29. New York Spaces, "Q&A with the Architects of Ike Kligerman Barkley," New York Spaces, February 7, 2016. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  30. Hadley Keller, "How Ike Kligerman Barkley's Office Renovation Created a Modern Work Environment," Architectural Digest, August 23, 2017. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  31. Andrew Conway, "Watch Hill, Rhode Island Residence," Ocean Home Magazine, September 19, 2016. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  32. Thomas A. Kligerman, "A Shingled South Carolina House Filled with Architectural Detail," Architectural Digest, August 24, 2016. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  33. AIA San Mateo County, "Lecture at Stanford: Thomas A. Kligerman,". Accessed May 10, 2019.
  34. Thomas A. Kligerman, "Architect Thomas A. Kligerman on 'Unknown American Academy,'" ICAA, February 20, 2018. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  35. Paloma Contreras, "The Style Files: Joel Barkley," La Dolce Vita, January 12, 2016. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  36. Orli Ben-Dor, "Follies," House Beautiful, November 2014, p. 21.
  37. Ike Kligerman Barkley, "About," Ike Kligerman Barkley website. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  38. Peter H. Miller, "The New Shingled House," Period Homes, September 2017. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  39. Stacey Bewkes, "Ike Kligerman Barkley at Nantucket by Design," Quintessence, August 21, 2016. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  40. Janice Randall Rohlf, "Ike Kligerman Barkley Renovates an Arts & Crafts Home," Period Homes, May 2019. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  41. Jenn Bradley Pfeffer, "Charming Connecticut Home," Traditional Home, July/August 2018. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  42. Matt Watts, "Beach House by Ike Kligerman Barkley," Home Adore, March 7, 2013. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  43. Ike Kligerman Barkley, "Architecture", Portfolio. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  44. Vogue, "People Are Talking About: Celebrity Stomping Ground," Vogue, June 1995.
  45. Architectural Digest, "2012 AD100: Ike Kligerman Barkley Architects," Architectural Digest, January 1, 2012. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  46. Eva Hagberg Fisher, "The Second Book From Ike Kligerman Barkley Reveals the Radical Side of a Storied American Style," Cottages & Gardens, November 2015. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  47. Fred A. Bernstein, "The Hamptons to San Francisco: Shingle-Style Houses for the 21st Century," Introspective Magazine, June 20, 2016. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  48. Jesse Kornbluth. "A Sophisticated Connecticut Home," Architectural Digest, June 1, 2011. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  49. Jacqueline Terrebonne, "A Classic Shingled Retreat on Long Island, New York's East End," Architectural Digest, April 4, 2016. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  50. Brad Goldfarb, "See How Architect Thomas Kligerman Created the Perfect Seaside Getaway in the Hamptons," Architectural Digest, July 2015. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  51. Heather Corcoran, "Ike Kligerman Barkley: Blanc Slate," Interiors, October-November 2017, pp. 50–57. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  52. William Lamb, "Restoration Architecture and Interior Design: Ike Kligerman Barkley," Interiors, October-November 2016, pp. 12–133. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  53. Joseph Giovannini, "Invoking an Ideal," Architectural Digest, June 2008.
  54. Therese Bissell, "A Tropical Variation," Architectural Digest, August 2007, pp. 92–9, 163.
  55. Architectural Digest Mexico, "Vibrantes destellos de luz y color," Architectural Digest Mexico, June 2011, cover and pp. 108–117.
  56. Revista Living, "Bem-Estar Mexicano," Living, December 2013, cover and pp. 60–64.
  57. Jean Strouse, "Modernizing the Past in Greenwich," Architectural Digest, December 2006, pp. 186–193.
  58. Michael Hainey, " Go Inside Meg Ryan's Home in New York City," Architectural Digest, July 6, 2017. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  59. Philip Nobel, "Tribeca, Old and New," Architectural Digest, February 2004, pp. 198–203, 211.
  60. Mildred F. Schmertz, "Midcentury Dialogue," Architectural Digest, December 2007, pp. 238–245.
  61. Michele Keith, "IKB Crafts Two SoHo Apartments," Aspire Design and Home, October 24, 2018. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  62. Mildred F. Schmertz, "Georgian Renewal," Architectural Digest, April 2007.
  63. Ike Kligerman Barkley, "Commercial Architecture", Portfolio. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  64. David Hudnall, "Wellness Center," Green Building & Design Magazine, July 2011, pp. 99–101.
  65. Design Rulz, "The Ramble Living Well Center by Ike Kligerman Barkley, USA," May 2014. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  66. Sam Cochran, "Tour the New Rizzoli Flagship in New York City," Architectural Digest, October 14, 2015. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  67. Veranda, "Open for Business," Veranda, September 2015, p. 68.
  68. Vogue Australia, " Rizzoli opens a new flagship store," July 30, 2015. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  69. Melissa Feldman, "ALT for Living Opens a New Manhattan Boutique and Coffee Shop," Architectural Digest, April 1, 2014. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  70. Artemest, "Ike Kligerman Barkley's Historically Inspired Interiors," Artemest. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  71. Architectural Digest, "Introducing the 2019 AD100," Architectural Digest, December 2018. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  72. Luxe Interiors + Design, "2015 Gold List: Architecture,". Accessed May 10, 2019.
  73. Luxe Interiors + Design, "2018 Gold List: Architecture,". Accessed May 10, 2019.
  74. Ocean Home Magazine, "Ocean Home 50: Our Top Coastal Architects of 2015," Ocean Home Magazine, October-November 2015. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  75. Ocean Home Magazine, "Ocean Home 50: Our Top Coastal Architects of 2016," Ocean Home Magazine, October-November 2016. Accessed May 10, 2019.
  76. Ocean Home Magazine, "Ocean Home 50: Our Top Coastal Architects of 2017," Ocean Home Magazine, October-November 2017. Accessed May 10, 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.