Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
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New York
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Tod Williams (born 1943, New York) studied architecture at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, New Jersey
New Jersey
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after graduating from the Cranbrook School
Cranbrook Schools
Cranbrook Schools is a private, PK–12 school located on a campus in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The schools comprise a co-educational elementary school, a middle school with separate schools for boys and girls, and a co-educational high school with boarding facilities...
in Bloomfield Hills. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome
American Academy in Rome
The American Academy in Rome is a research and arts institution located on the Gianicolo in Rome.- History :In 1893, a group of American architects, painters and sculptors met regularly while planning the fine arts section of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition...
, Italy
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. Previous to founding the office Williams worked for six years for architect Richard Meier
Richard Meier
Richard 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...
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Williams is the father of Tod Williams
Tod Williams (filmmaker)
Tod Culpan "Kip" Williams is an American director, producer and screenwriter.-Life and career:Williams was born and raised in New York City, the son of architect Tod Williams and a mother who was a dancer...
and Rachel Williams
Rachel Williams
Rachel Williams is an American model, actress, and TV presenter now living in the United Kingdom.- Biography :Her father Tod Williams and stepmother Billie Tsien are architects in the Manhattan firm Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, well known for their American Folk Art Museum, which many...
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Billie Tsien (born 1949, Ithaca
Ithaca
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, New York). Tsien has taught at Parsons School of Design, SCI-ARC
Southern California Institute of Architecture
The Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles , California, is an independent, nonprofit school offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture. It offers community design and outreach programs, and free public access to frequent exhibitions and lectures by leading...
, Harvard University
Harvard University
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, Yale University
Yale University
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, University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin
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and the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
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. Tsien is on the boards of the Architectural League of New York
Architectural League of New York
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, the Public Art Fund
Public Art Fund
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, and is a vice president of the Municipal Art Society in New York City.
Williams and Tsien shared the Jane and Bruce Graham Chair in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
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in 1998, as well as the Eliel Saarinen Chair at the University of Michigan
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
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in 2001 and 2002.
A selection of works
- Hereford CollegeHereford CollegeHereford College is a self-governed residential college at the University of Virginia that houses 500 students, mostly in single-occupancy rooms...
, University of VirginiaUniversity of VirginiaThe University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
(1992) - The Neurosciences InstituteThe Neurosciences InstituteThe Neurosciences Institute is a non-profit, scientific research organization dedicated to learning about the brain. Under the leadership of Nobel Laureate Gerald M...
, La Jolla (1995) - Long Island Residence, New York (1999)
- Cranbrook SchoolsCranbrook SchoolsCranbrook Schools is a private, PK–12 school located on a campus in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The schools comprise a co-educational elementary school, a middle school with separate schools for boys and girls, and a co-educational high school with boarding facilities...
Natatorium, Bloomfield Hills, MichiganMichiganMichigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
(1999) - American Folk Art MuseumAmerican Folk Art MuseumThe American Folk Art Museum is a museum devoted to American folk art, as well as the work of international self-taught artists. It has branches at 45 West 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, in Midtown Manhattan .In May 2011 the Museum of Modern Art bought its 53rd Street location...
, New York (2001) - Skirkanich Hall, University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
(2006) - Phoenix Art MuseumPhoenix art museumThe Phoenix Art Museum is the Southwest United States' largest art museum for visual art. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, the museum is . It displays international exhibitions alongside its comprehensive collection of more than 18,000 works of American, Asian, European, Latin American, Western...
expansion, Phoenix, ArizonaPhoenix, ArizonaPhoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...
(2006) - Barnes Foundation - announced in September 2007 selected to design new location
Sources
- Tod Williams, "Ascension", in Archipelago: Essays on Architecture, edited by P. MacKeith, Helsinki, Rakennustieto, 2006
- Billie Tsien, "The cuts through the heart", in Archipelago: Essays on Architecture.
- Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, The 1998 Charles and Ray Eames Lecture, Michigan Architecture Papers, University of Michigan Press, 1999.
- Douglas Heller, Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates: An Annotated Bibliography, Council of Planning Librarians, 1993.
- Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Work/Life, New York, Monacelli Press, 2000.
- Kester Rattenbury, Robert Bevan, and Kieran Long, Architects Today, New York, Laurence King Publishing, 2006.