Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects

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Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman & Associates Architects LLC
FormerlyGwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects
TypeArchitecture firm
Founded1967
Headquarters New York City, United States
Key people
Charles Gwathmey, Robert Siegel, Gene Kaufman
Website www.gwathmey-siegel.com

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.

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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 such famous clients 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 majority share and his name was added to the firm. [9]

Archives from the firm were donated to Yale in 2010. [10]

Selected works

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Basketball in the sky above the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

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References

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