Charles Gwathmey

Charles Gwathmey
Charles Gwathmey
	Gwathmey in 2006
Born	June 19, 1938; Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.
Died	August 3, 2009 (aged 71); New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Architect
Parent(s)	Robert Gwathmey; Rosalie Gwathmey

Charles Gwathmey (June 19, 1938 – August 3, 2009) 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. Gwathmey was perhaps best known for the 1992 renovation of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York City.^[1]

Born in

High School of Music and Art in New York City, graduating in 1956. Charles Gwathmey attended the University of Pennsylvania and received his Master of Architecture degree in 1962 from Yale School of Architecture,^[1] where he won both the William Wirt Winchester Fellowship as the outstanding graduate and a Fulbright Grant. While at Yale, he studied under Paul Rudolph.^[2]

Gwathmey was president of the board of trustees for

The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies and was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Architects

in 1981.

Career

Lafayette Street where Lafayette, Cooper Square and Astor Place

come together.

In 1965, while not yet a licensed architect, he designed a house and studio for his parents in Amagansett, New York, that became famous and revolutionized

Yale, and the Eliot Noyes Visiting Professor at Harvard University (1985). Gwathmey was the Spring 2005 William A. Bernoudy Resident in Architecture at the American Academy in Rome^[2]^[3]

Gwathmey's firm designed the

Ron Brown Building would be the new home of the United States Mission to the United Nations for which he was the lead architect. The building was dedicated to him. In her remarks, Ambassador Susan Rice thanked Gwathmey posthumously.^[4]

Personal life

His first marriage to Emily Margolin, a writer, ended in divorce. He had one child from that marriage, Annie Gwathmey. In 1974 Gwathmey married Bette-Ann Damson.[2]

Gwathmey died of esophageal cancer on August 3, 2009, one day before the opening of Bay Lake Tower, one of his projects. He was 71.^[5]^[6] His wife donated his archives to Yale University in 2010.^[7]

Awards and honors

Gwathmey was the recipient of the Brunner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1970, and in 1976 he was elected to the academy. In 1983, he won the Medal of Honor from the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and in 1985, he received the first Yale Alumni Arts Award from the Yale School of Architecture. In 1988 the Guild Hall Academy of Arts awarded Gwathmey its Lifetime Achievement Medal in Visual Arts, followed in 1990 by a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York State Society of Architects.^[2] Gwathmey was the only architect named in the Leadership in America issue of Time magazine.^[3]

Completed projects

Building/project	Location	Country	Date
Robert Gwathmey Residence	Amagansett, New York	United States	1965
Straus Residence	Purchase, New York	United States	1966
Joseph Sedacca Residence	Northwest Harbor, New York	United States	1968
The Jack D. and Barbara Weiss Goldberg Residence	Manchester, CT	United States	1969
Cooper Residence	Orleans, MA	United States	1969
Dunaway Residence	New York, New York	United States	1970
The Loring Mandel House	Huntington Bay, New York	United States	1970
The Paul and Kay Breslow Apartment	New York, New York	United States	1973
The Maurice and Marilyn Cohn Residence	Amagansett, New York	United States	1973
East Campus Housing and Academic Center, Columbia University	New York, New York	United States	1973^[8]
The Charof Residence	Montauk, New York	United States	1976
The Buettner Residence	Sloatsburg, New York	United States	1977
The Richard and Thea Benenson House	Rye, New York	United States	1977
The David Geffen Apartment	New York, New York	United States	1979
The Lloyd Taft House	Cincinnati, Ohio	United States	1979
de Menil Residence	Amagansett, New York	United States	1982
Sycamore Place Senior Housing	Columbus, Indiana	United States	1982
Pence Place Family Housing	Columbus, Indiana	United States	1984
The Steven Spielberg Apartment	New York, New York	United States	1985
American Museum of the Moving Image	Queens, New York	United States	1988
The Morgan Stanley Building	New York City, New York	United States	1990
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum addition	New York City, New York	United States	1992
Yale Arts Complex addition	New Haven, Connecticut	United States	2006
445 Lafayette Street	New York City, New York	United States	2006
Glenstone (residence and guest house)	Potomac, Maryland	United States	2006
Bay Lake Tower	Walt Disney World Resort	United States	2009
Cleveland State University Student Center	Cleveland, Ohio	United States	2010
United States Mission to the United Nations	New York City, New York	United States	2011 (lead architect-completed posthumously)

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b Times Topics > People (2008). "Charles Gwathmey". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 20, 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Charles Gwathmey FAIA (1938-2009)". Archived from the original on 2019-09-21. Retrieved 2014-03-31.
^ ^a ^b ^c Breslow, Kay, and Paul Breslow. Charles Gwathmey & Robert Siegel: Residential Works, 1966-1977. New York: Architectural Book Pub., 1977. Print.
^ "Remarks by Ambassador Susan e. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, at the Dedication of the Ronald H. Brown U.S. Mission to the United Nations Building". usun.state.gov. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
^ Bersten, Fred A (August 4, 2009). "Charles Gwathmey, Architect of the Modernist School, Is Dead at 71". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-08-11.
^ "Charles Gwathmey dies at 71; architect known for modernist home designs". Los Angeles Times. August 5, 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-11.
^ Glancey, Jonathan, and Richard Bryant. The New Moderns. New York: Crown, 1990. Print.
^ "Charles Gwathmey". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 2022-01-21.

External links

[times-1] Times Topics > People (2008). "Charles Gwathmey". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 20, 2011.

[NC-2] "Charles Gwathmey FAIA (1938-2009)". Archived from the original on 2019-09-21. Retrieved 2014-03-31.

[Breslow-3] Breslow, Kay, and Paul Breslow. Charles Gwathmey & Robert Siegel: Residential Works, 1966-1977. New York: Architectural Book Pub., 1977. Print.

[4] "Remarks by Ambassador Susan e. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, at the Dedication of the Ronald H. Brown U.S. Mission to the United Nations Building". usun.state.gov. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2022.

[urlCharles_Gwathmey,_Architect_of_the_Modernist_School,_Is_Dead_at_71_-_Obituary_(Obit)_-_NYTimes.com-5] Bersten, Fred A (August 4, 2009). "Charles Gwathmey, Architect of the Modernist School, Is Dead at 71". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-08-11.

[urlCharles_Gwathmey_dies_at_71;_architect_known_for_modernist_home_designs-6] "Charles Gwathmey dies at 71; architect known for modernist home designs". Los Angeles Times. August 5, 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-11.

[Glancey-7] Glancey, Jonathan, and Richard Bryant. The New Moderns. New York: Crown, 1990. Print.

[8] "Charles Gwathmey". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 2022-01-21.

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