Your Favorite Architects

[DominicanoNYC]

I'd say that it is Ceasar Pelli.

[Stern]

Libeskind is proving himself to be one of mine favorites...

But today my favorite corporate architect is Fox and Fowle.

What exactly are you asking here?

[Gulcrapek]

Maybe this should go in Anyhing Goes.

Aside, my favorites are Fox&Fowle (now just either Fox or Fowle), KPF, and I suppose Pelli.

[Kris]

Fox left the firm.

[Kris]

#Moderation Mode



<a href="http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/topic.cgi?forum=7&topic=136" target="_self">Moved here</a>

[chris]

The old Team 4 and their high-tech brethren continue to do the most stupendous work:

Sir Richard Rogers
Sir Norman Foster
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw
Renzo Piano

I don't know that Grimshaw ever worked directly with the Team 4 but he's my favorite of the high-tech crowd.

Enrique Norten and Bernardo Gómez-Pimienta (Ten Arquitectos) - Doing great stuff south of the border and not getting enough credit.

Eli Attia - he's not been as prolific since his litigation with HOK. It was a real David and Goliath battle and he was fighting the good fight. I'm eager to see him do something monumental again soon. Of his 4 New York buildings, his 101 Park Avenue is one of my favorites in the city. He also did some great work under Philip Johnson's name, back in the 70s.

Bill Pederson - ...and people like to work for him because he shares credit.

Mies - Always the master.

Corbu

Gordon Bunshaft - Lever House almost out Bauhaused the Bauhaus and I think the Solow Building is one of the most underrated/overlooked towers in Manhattan (Ada bashed it in the Times and it has had a bad rap ever since).

I.M. Pei - glass

Cesar Pelli - not always consistent, but he has some real masterpieces (Petronas alone wins him a place on the list).

Audrey Matlock - She only did 2 towers in New York during her brief stint at SOM, but the Bertelsmann Building is debatably my favorite tower in New York.

Carlos Ott - His National Bank of Dubai is one of my favorites anywhere. The way it marries with the water.

Tadao Ando - New York needs one. I saw his Pulitzer Museum in St. Louis last year. Pure sublime.

Richard Meier - White where the blue meets the green. Meier and Ando give me much of the same feeling.

Santiago Calatrava - Another guy who likes to work in white. I'd like to see him design a bridge to connect lower Manhattan with Jersey City.

Makoto Sei Watanabe - Just getting to know him.

Diller + Scofidio - Hoping Eyebeam gets built without too much compromise.

Herzog & de Meuron

Thomas Leeser

Lindy Roy

Christian de Portzamparc

Coop Himmelb(L)au - Libeskind wishes he were so good.

That looks like a good place to stop.



(Edited by chris at 3:43 am on May 22, 2003)

[chris]

Shameful we all forgot to mention F. L. Wright.

[chris]

How about Jean Novell?

[chris]

Come on, somebody turn us on to something...

[Merry]

Ralph Walker, art deco master
Lawrence Murray Dixon, art deco in Miami
Richard Meier, white houses
Philip Johnson, precisely because he does what he does
Frank Lloyd Wright, genius
Mies, of course
Cross & Cross, for my favourite NYC skyscraper, 20 Exchange Place

[Fabb]

Quote: from chris on 3:10 am on May 25, 2003

How about Jean Novell?


I've never heard of him, but his name makes me think of Jean Nouvel, who is really good.
Not my favourite though.

[Fabb]

If we're allowed to mention architects of the past, how come Raymond Hood doesn't appear in the above lists ?
Or Shreve, Lamb&Harmon ?
Clinton&Russel ?
Van Allen, Cass Gilbert ?
NY wouldn't be the NY we love without them.

[chris]

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Quote: from chris on 3:10 am on May 25, 2003

How about Jean Novell?
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I've never heard of him, but his name makes me think of Jean Nouvel, who is really good.
Not my favourite though.



You're just the sort of ass that would point out a typo in someone's post...

...William Van Allen
Raymond Hood...

add to the classics list...

D.H. Burnham
&
Louis Sullivan



...Watch out below for tweedle-dee to chime in.



(Edited by chris at 4:39 pm on June 12, 2003)

[chris]

Lawrence Murray Dixon

That's a good one...

[LuPeRcALiO]

don't forget Eero Saarinen
http://www.theconnection.org/content/2002/10/17/1018twa173.jpg

[Kris]

Chris, don't be such an irritable prick.

[Kris]

Two "typos".

[Merry]

I also really like Frank Williams. *Does anyone else like his work in NY?:

Rihga Royal Hotel, W54th between Sixth/Seventh Ave
Worldwide Plaza residential complex
The Gotham, Third Ave between 86th & 87th
Trump Palace, E68th/69th
Four Seasons Hotel, E57th/58th
Park Belvedere, W79th
Vanderbilt, E40th
Trump Parc refurb (formerly Barbizon Plaza - it's so disgusting the way that man puts his name to every acquisition), CPS
Columbia, Broadway/W96th
Alexandria, Broadway/W72nd
Belaire, E71st/72nd

I really like the Alexandria. *The AIA to New York City, however, says of it:

"Ramses II's mummy may return to blow up this insult to ancient Egypt. *It took two distinguished firms to consummate this travesty." *(SOM was the other)

Perhaps one of the more learned of you can explain this? *I think it sits very well with its neighbour, the Ansonia and I like the colour scheme. *Very Upper West Side-ish (my favourite neighbourhood and where I would live, money no object).

Another art deco favourite is H.I. Feldman (Bronx and northern Manhattan apartment buildings).

[NYatKNIGHT]

An Architect's World Turned Upside Down

Michael Graves...

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/12/garden/12GRAV.html

Aside from being a very sad story, this article mentions "his first Manhattan skyscraper — a 67-story mix of retail, office and luxury condominiums — was going up at 425 Fifth Avenue, at 38th Street."

67 stories?

http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2003/06/11/garden/12grav.01.jpg
Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

(Edited by NYatKNIGHT at 1:58 pm on June 12, 2003)

[Stern]

Michael Graves was my favorite architect for the short-time I was in Denver. I wonder if this injury will eventually alter his colorful take on life, and inturn change his architecture.

[phxmania2001]

Cass Gilbert. I like it old skool. :)