Charles Gwathmey

Posted by isengdude on Tweetby Staff | Monday, June 6, 2011 Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum by Gwathmey Siegel From The New York Times: Ever since Charles Gwathmey died in 2009 people in the architecture world have wondered what would become of his partner, Robert Siegel, and the firm they founded in 1968, Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects. Now the answer is clear: the architect Gene Kaufman has acquired a majority share and the firm will become Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman & Associates...Read Full Story

We wish to extend our condolences to the family and friends of renowned architect Charles Gwathmey who lost his battle to esophageal cancer on August 3rd 2009; he was 71.  As an architect, Gwathmey espoused the Modernist movement and firmly entrenched his standing as one of the most prolific and often controversial architects of this era. Charles Gwathmey Considered by many as a pioneer, Gwathmey attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture and  held a master in...Read Full Story

NORTH MIAMI, FL.- On Tuesday, March 8, the North Miami City Council took a major step towards ensuring the Museum of Contemporary Art’s continued future as a leader in the international contemporary art scene. The Council voted unanimously to enter into a contract with Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, New York, for the architectural and engineering services for the expansion of the museum. The expansion will more than double MOCA’s overall space to over 50,000 square feet. MOCA has...Read Full Story

The challenge of this project was to design an iconic tower that would transcend strict programmatic and technical constraints, and become a compelling and representative landmark for architecture and democracy. The tower refers abstractly to skyscraper precedents of base, middle, top, while presenting a composite, layered and interlocking composition of forms and materials, vertically and horizontally, which presents a pedestrian scale, a place scale and a city scale that attempts to be...Read Full Story

NEW HAVEN, CT.- The records of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects have been donated to the Yale University Library’s Department of Manuscripts and Archives by Bette-Ann Gwathmey, the widow of founding partner Charles Gwathmey who received his degree in architecture from Yale in 1962. The award-winning architecture firm has been acclaimed for its expressive residential designs and sensitive restorations of iconic modernist buildings. Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects was founded by...Read Full Story