Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects
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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.
| Formerly | Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects |
|---|---|
Company type | Architecture firm |
| Founded | 1967 |
| Headquarters | New York City, United States |
Key people | Charles Gwathmey, Robert Siegel, Gene Kaufman |
| Website | www |
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
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
- Henry Art Gallery (1979)[11]
- East Campus (Columbia University) (1982);[12] the facade had significantly deteriorated by 1991.[13]
- 1585 Broadway (1990)[14]
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (adjoining structure, 1992)
- Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (1996)
- Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (2003)[15]
- 445 Lafayette Street, New York (2004)[5]
- Burchfield-Penney Art Center (2008)[16]
- Yale Art and Architecture Building (renovation & adjoining structure, 2008)[17]
- 400 Fifth Avenue (2010)
- Crocker Art Museum (2010)
- United States Mission to the United Nations[18]
- 90 Columbus, Jersey City[19]