Karen Bausman

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Karen Bausman
Karen Bausman at The Cooper Union.jpg
Bausman in October 2018
Born (1958-02-08) February 8, 1958 (age 66)
Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater Cooper Union (Bachelor of Architecture)
OccupationArchitect
Awards Rome Prize
PracticeKaren Bausman + Associates

Karen Bausman (born February 8, 1958) is an American architect. She has held the Eliot Noyes Chair at the Harvard Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and the Eero Saarinen Chair at Yale School of Architecture at Yale University, the only American woman to hold both design chairs.

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She is principal of Karen Bausman + Associates, a Manhattan-based architecture firm founded in 1995. [1]

Early life and education

Bausman was born February 8, 1958, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and attended Cooper Union in New York City, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1982. [2]

Career

The earliest and most lasting influence on her expanding thoughts about art and architecture, according to Bausman, was John Hejduk, Cooper Union's dean who revolutionized architectural education in the United States and encouraged independent research. [3] Her thesis project, One-Way Bridge, was featured in Education of an Architect, published by Rizzoli International Publications in 1988. [3]

Bausman's study of nature's sustainable structures and her research into biological composite systems underlie her building designs. [4] [5] Suggesting unfolding flower petals, Performance Theater, which was designed as a hybrid performance venue for Warner Bros. in Los Angeles, replaced a parking lot in the center of its Burbank, California campus with flexible stage and amphitheater spaces for use by the entertainment community. "It springs from the ground in a way that is expressive of the expansive new ideas embodied by the company's roster of performing artists," she said when accepting the Progressive Architecture Award for the theater's design in 1998. [6] [7]

This commission and other works that push the boundaries of structural and visual poetry [8] formed the basis of Karen Bausman: Supermodels, a solo exhibition of her building designs and working methods at Harvard University in 2001.

Bausman was a faculty member of Columbia University's School of Architecture's Advanced Architectural Design Studio (AAD) from 1990 to 2004 as the design studio was radically altered by digital visualization, the introduction of new materials, and the integration of digital with analog production. [9] Her applied research into biological and other natural structures, together with computational design techniques she developed [10] are featured in INDEX Architecture, a Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation book published by MIT Press in 2003.

In April 1994, Bausman was awarded the Rome Prize at a White House ceremony. [11] She was awarded the Cooper Union Citation for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Architecture in that same year. In 1995, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.

In 2005, She was the subject of a 2005 profile in The New York Times profile in 2005 after her firm was awarded a multiyear design and construction excellence contract as part of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s initiative to bring new ideas and technologies to the design of city-financed libraries, community centers, and other structures in New York City. Among Bausman's interior design projects are award-winning New York headquarters for her private clients Warner Bros. and Elektra Entertainment Group. [12] She has also built numerous private residences.

Bausman lectures on her work and on architecture at universities nationwide and as a television commentator, most recently on Secrets of New York's The Towers of Gotham episode on PBS stations.

Awards and honors

Major building designs

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References

  1. ↑ Fried, Joseph R. (December 11, 2005). "When Two Sisters Are Better Than One". The New York Times . Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Karen Bausman" at Pratt Institute
  3. 1 2 Lacy, Bill; Green, Allan; Hejduk, John; Diller, Elizabeth; Lewis, Diane; Shkapich, Kim. "Education of an Architect." Rizzoli Press International Publications, 1988, p. 8,9, 288-9.
  4. ↑ Oshima, Ken Tadashi. 'Karen Bausman + Associates." A+U (Japan), 2001 September; p.122-125. Hamlin Chapel and Library.
  5. ↑ Tschumi, Bernard; Berman, Matthew. INDEX: Architecture. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.: 2003 May., p. 9,11,21,26,84,86,128,131,147-8,153, 190,202,213,223,252,266, 281. Performance Theater and Hamlin Library and Chapel projects by Karen Bausman.
  6. ↑ Ward, Timothy Jack. "Currents, ARCHITECTURE: Some Advanced Praise for Projects in Utero." The New York Times, 9 April 1998, p.F/3. Performance Theater.
  7. ↑ "P/A Awards: Performance Theater: Karen Bausman + Associates." Architecture, 1998 April (Awards Issue), p.82-85.
  8. ↑ Shkapich, Kim. "Karen Bausman: Supermodels." Harvard University Graduate School of Design Exhibition catalogue, 2002.p. 1-6.
  9. ↑ Cramer, Ned; Guiney, Anne. "The Computer School." Architecture, 2000 September, p.94-98.
  10. ↑ Dollens, Dennis. MIT Press Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2. 2004, April. p. 163. Performance Theater and other works.
  11. ↑ Molotsky, Irvin. The Living Arts: "Rome Prizes Awarded At White House." The New York Times, April 22, 1994. p. A/1.
  12. ↑ Fisher, Thomas. "Music and Matter." Progressive Architecture, 1993 October, p.58-65. Warner Bros. Records, Elektra Entertainment Group.
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