Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects LLC is a New York City

New York City

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-based architectural firm

Architectural firm

An architectural firm is a company which employs one or more licensed architects and practices the profession of architecture.- History :Architects have existed since early in recorded history. The earliest recorded architects include Imhotep and Senemut . No writings exist to describe how these...

 founded in 1967 by architects Charles Gwathmey

Charles Gwathmey

Charles Gwathmey was an American architect. He was a principal at Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, as well as one of the five architects identified as The New York Five in 1969...

 and Robert Siegel

Robert Siegel (architect)

Robert Siegel, FAIA is an American Architect who, along with Charles Gwathmey, founded the architectural firm of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates. He graduated from Pratt Institute with a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1962 and received his Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University in...

. The firm's work ranges from art and educational facilities and major corporate buildings to furniture systems and decorative art objects. Critics view Gwathmey Siegel's work as the stylistic successors of the formal modernism

Modernism

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 of Swiss architect

Architect

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 Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930...

. The firm is especially well-known for its residential architecture, having designed homes for such famous clients as Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

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, David Geffen

David Geffen

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, and Ronald Lauder

Ronald Lauder

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Selected works

• Crocker Art Museum
  Crocker Art Museum
  The Crocker Art Museum is one of the leading arts institutions in California, and the longest continuously operating art museum in the West. Located in Sacramento, California, the Crocker has been an art innovator since 1885...
  
   (Finished in 2010)
• Yale Art and Architecture Building (renovation & adjoining structure, 2008)

• Tangeman University Center, University of Cincinnati (2004)
• Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
  Basketball Hall of Fame
  The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, located in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, honors exceptional basketball players, coaches, referees, executives, and other major contributors to the game of basketball worldwide...
  
   (2003)
• Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
  Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
  The Museum of Contemporary Art is a museum located in the heart of downtown North Miami, Florida. The structure was designed by the internationally acclaimed architecture firm Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, New York, which worked in conjunction with the Miami firm of Gelabert-Navia to...
  
   (1996)
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
  The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a well-known museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It is the permanent home to a renowned collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions...
  
   (adjoining structure, 1992)
• East Campus (Columbia University)
  East Campus (Columbia University)
  East Campus is a prominent building on the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia University in New York City, located along Morningside Drive between 117th and 118th Streets...
  
   (1982)
• Henry Art Gallery
  Henry Art Gallery
  The Henry Art Gallery is the art museum of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA. Located on the west edge of the university's campus along 15th Avenue N.E. in the University District, it was founded in 1927 and was the first public art museum in the state of Washington. The...
  
  (1979)