List of Jewish American architects
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This is a list of famous Jewish American architects. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
- Max AbramovitzMax AbramovitzMax Abramovitz was an architect best known for his work with the New York City firm Harrison & Abramovitz.- Life :...
, architect - Dankmar AdlerDankmar AdlerDankmar Adler was a celebrated German-born American architect.-Early years:...
, architect and civil engineerCivil engineerA civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering; the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.Originally, a...
, partner with Louis SullivanLouis SullivanLouis Henri Sullivan was an American architect, and has been called the "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism" He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an...
in celebrated firm of Adler and Sullivan - Gregory AinGregory AinGregory Ain was an American architect active in the mid-20th century. Working primarily in the Los Angeles area, Ain is best known for bringing elements of modern architecture to lower- and medium-cost housing.- Biography :...
, California architect; protege of Richard NeutraRichard NeutraRichard Joseph Neutra is considered one of modernism's most important architects.- Biography :Neutra was born in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Vienna, Austria Hungary, on April 8, 1892. He was born into both-Jewish wealthy family... - Armand Phillip BartosArmand Phillip BartosArmand Phillip Bartos was an American architect and philanthropist.Though highly active as a philanthropist, Bartos became primarily known as the co-designer of Shrine of the Book that houses the Dead Sea Scrolls in western Jerusalem.Bartos's various and diverse activities, primarily not...
, architect and philanthropist, best known for the Shrine of the BookShrine of the BookThe Shrine of the Book , a wing of the Israel Museum near Givat Ram in Jerusalem, houses the Dead Sea Scrolls—discovered 1947–56 in 11 caves in and around the Wadi Qumran...
, co-designed with Frederick John KieslerFrederick John KieslerFrederick John Kiesler...
, housing the gift of the State of Israel of the Dead Sea ScrollsDead Sea scrollsThe Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts from the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical documents found between 1947 and 1956 on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, from which they derive their name...
by his father-in-law Samuel GottesmanSamuel GottesmanDavid Samuel Gottesman , was a Hungarian-born, American pulp-paper merchant, financier and philanthropist. He was generally known as Samuel Gottesman or D. Samuel Gottesman.-Pulp-paper:... - Walter Curt BehrendtWalter Curt BehrendtWalter Curt Behrendt was a German-American architect and active advocate of German modernism. He was an authority on city planning and housing, editor of Die Form, and author of The Victory of the New Building Style among many other works.Behrendt was born in Metz, emigrated to the U.S...
, German modernist architect and expert on city planning and housing - Edward BlumEdward BlumEdward Blum was an architect, born in Paris, who designed apartment and office buildings, many in New York City. He died in Sunnyside, Queens, New York at 67. Blum was a graduate of Columbia University.-Notes:...
and George BlumGeorge BlumGeorge Blum was an American architect, who, along with his brother Edward Blum, formed one of great non-conformist architectural firms in New York City during the early 20th century. Blum studied, with his brother, at Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris....
, École des Beaux-ArtsÉcole des Beaux-ArtsÉcole des Beaux-Arts refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The most famous is the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, now located on the left bank in Paris, across the Seine from the Louvre, in the 6th arrondissement. The school has a history spanning more than 350 years,...
-trained brothers, of Alsatian-French decent, celebrated for their terra cotta embellished, Art NouveauArt NouveauArt Nouveau is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that were most popular during 1890–1910. The name "Art Nouveau" is French for "new art"...
Manhattan apartment buildings, ended their career with two Art DecoArt DecoArt deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and...
works http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/realestate/02scap.html. Their work was catalogued in Andrew S. Dolkart and Susan Tunick's 1993 book http://books.google.com/books?id=ia6K5-L6U_oC&dq=Edward+%2B+George+Blum+%2B+architects&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=NbdpbGleBE&sig=UDVPAeBE6uzOMCqaLWFgeiu5ik0&hl=en&ei=hn-4SY2KIOH8tgeJuP2qBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result, George & Edward Blum: Texture and Design in New York Apartment House Architecture. - Marcel BreuerMarcel BreuerMarcel Lajos Breuer , was a Hungarian-born modernist, architect and furniture designer of Jewish descent. One of the masters of Modernism, Breuer displayed interest in modular construction and simple forms.- Life and work :Known to his friends and associates as Lajkó, Breuer studied and taught at...
, modernistModern architectureModern architecture is generally characterized by simplification of form and creation of ornament from the structure and theme of the building. It is a term applied to an overarching movement, with its exact definition and scope varying widely...
architect and furniture designer - Arnold BrunnerArnold BrunnerArnold William Brunner was an American architect who was born and died in New York City. Brunner was educated in New York and in Manchester, England. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied under William R. Ware. Early in his career, he worked in the architectural...
, considered the first successful American born Jewish architect in the US http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/aja/journal/PDF/54v2/Article54v2-Fine.pdf - and a city planner as well - he is the namesake of an annual award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a grant by the American Institute of Architects'American Institute of ArchitectsThe American Institute of Architects is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the AIA offers education, government advocacy, community redevelopment, and public outreach to support the architecture profession and improve its public image...
New York chapter - Alan Buchsbaum, high techHigh techHigh tech is technology that is at the cutting edge: the most advanced technology currently available. It is often used in reference to micro-electronics, rather than other technologies. The adjective form is hyphenated: high-tech or high-technology...
architect - Gordon BunshaftGordon BunshaftGordon Bunshaft was an architect educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1988, Gordon Bunshaft nominated himself for the Pritzker Prize and eventually won it.-Career:...
, modernistModern architectureModern architecture is generally characterized by simplification of form and creation of ornament from the structure and theme of the building. It is a term applied to an overarching movement, with its exact definition and scope varying widely...
architect, partner in firm of Skidmore, Owings and MerrillSkidmore, Owings and MerrillSkidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP is an American architectural and engineering firm that was formed in Chicago in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings; in 1939 they were joined by John O. Merrill. They opened their first branch in New York City, New York in 1937. SOM is one of the largest... - Giorgio CavaglieriGiorgio CavaglieriGiorgio Cavaglieri was an Italian American architectural preservationist and painter of gouaches. His best-known work is his 1960s restoration of the Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village....
, architectural preservationist and painter of gouacheGouacheGouache[p], also spelled guache, the name of which derives from the Italian guazzo, water paint, splash or bodycolor is a type of paint consisting of pigment suspended in water. A binding agent, usually gum arabic, is also present, just as in watercolor...
s - Irwin ChaninIrwin ChaninIrwin Salmon Chanin was an American architect and real estate developer, best known for designing several Art Deco towers and Broadway theaters. He was President of Chanin Theatres Corporation, and his brother Henry I...
, designer of Art Deco office towers and Broadway theaters, real estate developer and benefactor to his alma mater, The Cooper Union, which named its school of architecture in his honor. - Serge ChermayeffSerge ChermayeffSerge Ivan Chermayeff was a Russian born, British architect, industrial designer, writer, and co-founder of several architectural societies, including the American Society of Planners and Architects....
, GroznyGroznyGrozny is the capital city of the Chechen Republic, Russia. The city lies on the Sunzha River. According to the preliminary results of the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 271,596; up from 210,720 recorded in the 2002 Census. but still only about two-thirds of 399,688 recorded in the 1989...
-born architect of Sephardic descent whose inter-war partnership with Erich MendelsohnErich MendelsohnErich Mendelsohn was a Jewish German architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic functionalism in his projects for department stores and cinemas.-Early life:...
was lauded for bringing modernismModernismModernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...
to Britain; was also a writer, professor and co-founder of professional societies StatesideStatesideStateside may refer to:* stateside, a slang term for the United States, usually used concerning an American currently outside the country, particularly in a military context* Stateside Records, the British record label...
, and father of graphic designer Ivan Chermayeff - Preston Scott CohenPreston Scott CohenPreston Scott Cohen is a Boston based designer and the Gerald M. McCue Professor in Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design . While Mr. Cohen is not a registered architect, he is a celebrated building designer and is Principal at Preston Scott Cohen, Inc...
, architect - Richard Dattner, BielskoBielskoBielsko was until 1950 an independent town situated in Cieszyn Silesia, Poland. In 1951 it was joined with Biała Krakowska to form the new town of Bielsko-Biała. Bielsko constitutes the western part of that town....
, Poland-born recipient of the American Institute of Architects'American Institute of ArchitectsThe American Institute of Architects is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the AIA offers education, government advocacy, community redevelopment, and public outreach to support the architecture profession and improve its public image...
Thomas Jefferson Award, its highest honor for public architecture - Elizabeth Diller, partner with husband Ricardo Scofidio and Charles Renfro in Diller Scofidio + RenfroDiller Scofidio + RenfroDiller Scofidio + Renfro is a New York City-based interdisciplinary design studio that integrates architecture, the visual arts, and the performing arts. Originally founded by Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio in 1979, the firm is particularly well known for its interdisciplinary approach to...
, the first architectural firm to win the so-called "genius award," a MacArthur Prize - Dan DworskyDan DworskyDaniel Leonard Dworsky has been a leading Southern California architect since the early 1950s. He is a longstanding member of the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows. Among other works, Dworsky designed Crisler Arena, the basketball arena at the University of Michigan named for...
, architect - John EbersonJohn EbersonJohn Eberson was an American architect best known for his movie palace designs in the atmospheric theatre fashion.Born in Czernowitz, Austro-Hungarian Empire , Eberson went to highschool in Dresden and studied electrical engineering in Vienna. He arrived in the United States in 1901 and at first...
, Romanian-born architect best known for his atmosphericAtmospheric theatreAn atmospheric theatre is a type of movie palace which has an auditorium ceiling that is intended to give the illusion of an open sky as its defining feature...
movie palaces - Leopold EidlitzLeopold EidlitzLeopold Eidlitz was a prominent New York architect best known for his work on the New York State Capitol , as well as "Iranistan" , P. T. Barnum's house in Bridgeport, Connecticut; St. Peter's Church, on Westchester Avenue at St...
, architect - Peter EisenmanPeter EisenmanPeter Eisenman is an American architect. Eisenman's professional work is often referred to as formalist, deconstructive, late avant-garde, late or high modernist, etc...
, architect - Sidney EisenshtatSidney EisenshtatSidney Eisenshtat was an American architect who was best known for his synagogues andJewish academic buildings.-Biography:...
, architect best known for modernist synagogues including the House of the Book - Sheldon Fox, architect, co-founder Kohn Pedersen FoxKohn Pedersen FoxKohn Pedersen Fox Associates , an architectural firm responsible for several world-renowned buildings, provides architectural, interior and urban design as well as programming and master planning services for clients in both the public and private sectors...
- Ulrich Franzen, architect
- James Ingo FreedJames Ingo FreedJames Ingo Freed was an American architect born in Essen, Germany during the Weimar Republic.His Jewish family fled to the United States when he was 9 to escape the regime of Nazi Germany....
, architect - M. Paul FriedbergM. Paul Friedberg-Biography:M. Paul Friedberg was born in New York City where he attended Cornell University. In 1954 he emerged with a Bachelor of Science degree. He said that "after navigating four socially active years the reality of growing up set in." He said that his largest influence for pursuing landscape...
, landscape architectLandscape architectA landscape architect is a person involved in the planning, design and sometimes direction of a landscape, garden, or distinct space. The professional practice is known as landscape architecture.... - Frank GehryFrank GehryFrank Owen Gehry, is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions...
, architect, Pritzker Prize (1989) - Ofra Gelman, Architect, RedRock Design, Las Vegas, Nevada. Hospitality.
- Nir Golan, architect
- Bertrand GoldbergBertrand GoldbergBertrand Goldberg was an American architect best known for the Marina City complex in Chicago, Illinois, the tallest residential concrete building in the world at the time of completion.-Life and career:...
, architect of Chicago's Marina City Center - Percival GoodmanPercival GoodmanPercival Goodman was an American urban theorist and architect who designed more than 50 synagogues between 1948 and 1983. He has been called the "leading theorist" of modern synagogue design, and "the most prolific architect in Jewish history."-Biography:Percival Goodman was born in New York City...
, urban theoristUrban designUrban design concerns the arrangement, appearance and functionality of towns and cities, and in particular the shaping and uses of urban public space. It has traditionally been regarded as a disciplinary subset of urban planning, landscape architecture, or architecture and in more recent times has...
and architect who designed over 50 synagogues; brother of sociologist/author Paul GoodmanPaul Goodman (writer)Paul Goodman was an American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, and public intellectual. Goodman is now mainly remembered as the author of Growing Up Absurd and an activist on the pacifist Left in the 1960s and an inspiration to that era's student movement... - Ezra Gordon, architect
- Alexander Gorlin, FAIA, Principal of Alexander Gorlin Architects in Manhattan, specializes in high-end residential, synagogues, master plans, and affordable and supportive housing.
- Arthur Gross, partner of Schwartz and GrossSchwartz and GrossSchwartz and Gross was a New York City architectural firm active from at least 1901 to 1963, and which designed numerous apartment buildings in the city during the first half of the 20th century. The firm, together with the firm Neville & Bagge and the firm owned by George F...
, designer of pre-WW2 Manhattan apartment buildings - Victor GruenVictor GruenVictor David Gruen, born Viktor David Grünbaum , was an Austrian-born commercial architect best known as a pioneer in the design of shopping malls in the United States.- Biography :...
, father of the shopping mall - Lawrence HalprinLawrence HalprinLawrence Halprin was an influential American landscape architect, designer and teacher.Beginning his career in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, in 1949, Halprin often collaborated with a local circle of modernist architects on relatively modest projects. These figures included William...
, landscaper architect/educator - Franklin D. Israel, architect
- Herman JessorHerman JessorHerman J. Jessor was an American architect who helped build more than 40,000 units of cooperative housing in New York City. He, along with Abraham Kazan, was a driving force of the cooperative housing movement in the United States....
, the architect of more than 40,000, union-sponsored, publicly-assisted, cooperative housing units in New York City - Albert Kahn, industrial architect
- Louis I. Kahn, influential, world-renown, modernist architect
- Frederick John KieslerFrederick John KieslerFrederick John Kiesler...
, Czernowitz-born theater designer, artist, theoretician and architect (see Bartos) - A. Eugene Kohn, architect, co-founder Kohn Pedersen FoxKohn Pedersen FoxKohn Pedersen Fox Associates , an architectural firm responsible for several world-renowned buildings, provides architectural, interior and urban design as well as programming and master planning services for clients in both the public and private sectors...
- Robert D. KohnRobert D. KohnRobert D. Kohn was an American architect most active in New York City.- Life :Kohn was born in Manhattan, attended Columbia University, and spent four years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, from 1891 through 1895. After brief stints for other architects, he established an independent...
, one-time American Institute of ArchitectsAmerican Institute of ArchitectsThe American Institute of Architects is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the AIA offers education, government advocacy, community redevelopment, and public outreach to support the architecture profession and improve its public image...
president, best known for his designs of Reform synagogues and buildings for the New York Society for Ethical CultureEthical CultureThe Ethical movement, also referred to as the Ethical Culture movement or simply Ethical Culture, is an ethical, educational, and religious movement that is usually traced back to Felix Adler... - Reed Kroloff , architect/critic, former editor of ArchitectureArchitecture (magazine)Originally titled Journal of the American Institute of Architects from January 1944 through 1951, the magazine changed its name to The American Institute of Architects Journal. After publication of the AIA Journal ended in August 1976, then followed Architecture magazine...
, former dean of Tulane School of ArchitectureTulane School of ArchitectureThe Tulane School of Architecture or is the school of architecture at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. The school has a student body of approximately 300 students and is known for the scholarly productivity of its faculty, its collegian atmosphere and unique studio culture.Recognized...
, director of Cranbrook Academy of ArtCranbrook Educational CommunityThe Cranbrook Educational Community, a National Historic Landmark, in the US state of Michigan was founded in the early 20th century by newspaper mogul George Gough Booth. Cranbrook campus is in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills consisting of Cranbrook Schools, Cranbrook Academy of Art,... - Morris LapidusMorris LapidusMorris Lapidus was the architect of Neo-baroque Miami Modern hotels that has since come to define the 1950s resort-hotel style synonymous with Miami and Miami Beach....
, once maligned architect of "gorgeous", but now celebrated as exemplar of MiMoMiami Modern ArchitectureMiami Modernist Architecture or better known as MiMo, is a style of architecture from the 1950s and 1960s that originated in Miami, Florida as a resort vernacular unique to Miami and Miami Beach... - Paul LászlóPaul LászlóPaul László or Paul Laszlo was a Hungarian-born modern architect and interior designer whose work spanned eight decades and many countries...
(1900-02-06 – 1993-03-27), Hungarian-born modern architect and interior designer whose work spanned eight decades and many countries. - Edgar M. LazarusEdgar M. LazarusEdgar Marks Lazarus was an American architect who was prominent in the Portland, Oregon, area for more than 45 years. He was best known as the architect of the Vista House on Crown Point in the Columbia River Gorge....
(1868 – 1939), prominent in the Portland, OregonPortland, OregonPortland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
area for more than 45 years, best known as the architect of the Vista HouseVista HouseVista House is an observatory at Crown Point in Multnomah County, Oregon that also serves as a memorial to Oregon pioneers and as a comfort station for travelers on the Historic Columbia River Highway... - Daniel LibeskindDaniel LibeskindDaniel Libeskind, is an American architect, artist, and set designer of Polish-Jewish descent. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect...
, architect - John Maksai, architect
- Richard MeierRichard MeierRichard Meier is an American architect, whose rationalist buildings make prominent use of the color white.- Biography :Meier is Jewish and was born in Newark, New Jersey...
, architect, Pritzker Prize (1984) - Erich MendelsohnErich MendelsohnErich Mendelsohn was a Jewish German architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic functionalism in his projects for department stores and cinemas.-Early life:...
, architect, co-founder of the German architectural collaborative Der RingDer RingDer Ring was an architectural collective founded in 1926 in Berlin. It emerged out of expressionist architecture with a functionalist agenda. Der Ring was a group of young architects, formed with the objective of promoting Modernist architecture. It took a position against the prevailing...
, later practiced in Mandatory Palestine before settling in the US in 1941 - Robert MosesRobert MosesRobert Moses was the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, Rockland County, and Westchester County, New York. As the shaper of a modern city, he is sometimes compared to Baron Haussmann of Second Empire Paris, and is one of the most polarizing figures in the history of...
, this "master builder" was the subject of Robert Caro'sRobert CaroRobert Allan Caro is an American journalist and author known for his celebrated biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson...
Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
-winning biography, The Power BrokerThe Power BrokerThe Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a Pulitzer Prize-winning 1974 biography of Robert Moses, "New York City's Master Builder", by Robert Caro... - Eric Owen MossEric Owen MossEric Owen Moss practices architecture with his eponymously named LA-based 25-person firm founded in 1973.Throughout his career Moss has worked to revitalize a once defunct industrial tract in Culver City, California....
, architect - Barbara A. Nadel http://www.aia.org/nwsltr_yaf.cfm?pagename=yaf_a_060418_leadership_bnadel, an architect specialized in health care and justice facilities, much in demand for her expertise on design for public and institutional building security http://books.google.com/books?id=6W1IdJD3Mv0C
- Richard NeutraRichard NeutraRichard Joseph Neutra is considered one of modernism's most important architects.- Biography :Neutra was born in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Vienna, Austria Hungary, on April 8, 1892. He was born into both-Jewish wealthy family...
, modernist architect - James PolshekJames PolshekJames Stewart Polshek is an American architect based in New York City. He is the founder of Polshek Partnership, the firm at which he was Principal Design Partner for more than four decades...
, architect - Emery RothEmery RothEmery Roth was an American architect who designed many of the definitive New York City hotels and apartment buildings of the 1920s and 30s, incorporating Beaux-Arts and Art Deco details...
, apprentice to Daniel BurnhamDaniel BurnhamDaniel Hudson Burnham, FAIA was an American architect and urban planner. He was the Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. He took a leading role in the creation of master plans for the development of a number of cities, including Chicago and downtown Washington DC...
and architect of classic Jazz AgeJazz AgeThe Jazz Age was a movement that took place during the 1920s or the Roaring Twenties from which jazz music and dance emerged. The movement came about with the introduction of mainstream radio and the end of the war. This era ended in the 1930s with the beginning of The Great Depression but has...
New York apartment buildings and hotels, who founded firm known as the "builder's architects" - Moshe SafdieMoshe SafdieMoshe Safdie, CC, FAIA is an architect, urban designer, educator, theorist, and author. Born in the city of Haifa, then Palestine and now Israel, he moved with his family to Montreal, Canada, when he was 15 years old.-Career:...
, architect - Taal Safdie, architect
- Stanley Saitowitz, architect and emeritus architecture professor at UC Berkeley http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/ced/people/query.php?id=80&dept=&title=&first=Stanley&last=Saitowitz&ced&berkeley
- Lawrence ScarpaLawrence ScarpaLawrence Scarpa is an architect based in Los Angeles, California.He is known for the creative use of conventional materials in unique and unexpected ways...
, architect - Rudolph Schindler, Austrian-born modernist architect known for his private houses in LA.
- Denise Scott BrownDenise Scott BrownDenise Scott Brown, is an architect, planner, writer, educator, and principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia...
, architect, city planner and partner/spouse of architect Robert VenturiRobert VenturiRobert Charles Venturi, Jr. is an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, and one of the major figures in the architecture of the twentieth century... - Martha SchwartzMartha SchwartzMartha Schwartz, born 1950, is an American landscape architect. Her background is in the fine arts as well as landscape architecture, and her projects range from private to urban scale. She studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and graduated from the University of Michigan...
, landscape architect - Simon I. Schwartz, partner of Schwartz and GrossSchwartz and GrossSchwartz and Gross was a New York City architectural firm active from at least 1901 to 1963, and which designed numerous apartment buildings in the city during the first half of the 20th century. The firm, together with the firm Neville & Bagge and the firm owned by George F...
, designer of pre-WW2 Manhattan apartment buildings - Raphael SorianoRaphael SorianoRaphael S. Soriano, FAIA, was an influential architect and educator who helped define a period of 20th century architecture that came to be known as Mid-century modern...
Rhodes-born architect/educator of Sephardi descent whose work epitomized Mid-Century modernMid-century modernMid-Century modern is an architectural, interior and product design form that generally describes mid-20th century developments in modern design, architecture, and urban development from roughly 1933 to 1965... - Michael SorkinMichael SorkinMichael Sorkin is an American architecture critic. He is a Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York, part of the City University of New York , and the founder of...
, architectural theorist and academic with non-profit practice, currently directs the graduate program in urban designUrban designUrban design concerns the arrangement, appearance and functionality of towns and cities, and in particular the shaping and uses of urban public space. It has traditionally been regarded as a disciplinary subset of urban planning, landscape architecture, or architecture and in more recent times has...
at CCNY - Clarence SteinClarence SteinClarence Samuel Stein was an American urban planner, architect, and writer, a major proponent of the "Garden City" movement in the United States.- Biography :...
, urban plannerUrban plannerAn urban planner or city planner is a professional who works in the field of urban planning/land use planning for the purpose of optimizing the effectiveness of a community's land use and infrastructure. They formulate plans for the development and management of urban and suburban areas, typically...
, architect and writer, best known for advancing the garden city movementGarden city movementThe garden city movement is a method of urban planning that was initiated in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom. Garden cities were intended to be planned, self-contained communities surrounded by "greenbelts" , containing proportionate areas of residences, industry and...
in the US, as evinced by his own collaborations with architect Henry Wright, Sunnyside GardensSunnyside Gardens, QueensSunnyside Gardens, in the Sunnyside neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens, was one of the first developments to incorporate the "superblock" model in the United States...
and RadburnRadburn, New JerseyRadburn is an unincorporated planned community located within Fair Lawn, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.Radburn was founded in 1929 as "a town for the motor age"... - Robert A. M. SternRobert A. M. SternRobert Arthur Morton Stern, usually credited as Robert A. M. Stern, is an American architect and Dean of the Yale University School of Architecture....
, architect - Edgar TafelEdgar TafelEdgar A. Tafel was an American architect, best known as a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright.-Early life and career:Tafel was born in New York City to Russian Jewish immigrants, and moved to New Jersey with his...
, architect; Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...
protege - Stanley TigermanStanley TigermanStanley Tigerman is an American architect, theorist and designer. He studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Chicago Institute of Design, and Yale University. After serving several years in the United States Navy, he assumed the role of draftsman and designer in a series of offices...
, architect - Joseph UrbanJoseph UrbanJoseph Urban Born in Vienna, Austria, died in New York City, trained as an architect, known also for his theatrical design and his early illustrations of children's books....
, architect, set designerhttp://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/urban/architectOfDreams/text.html and book illustratorIllustratorAn Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text... - Paul ZuckerPaul ZuckerPaul Zucker was a German-born architect, art historian, art critic and author.- External links :* http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/zuckerp.htm...
, architect/city planner in Berlin who joined the University in Exile at the New School for Social Research