The winner of the Second Building Museums® “Buildy” Award: the Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College in Buffalo, New York. Accepting the award is Ted Pietrzak, Executive Director, a visionary leader who guided the museum through its successful move to a new, award-winning facility designed by Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman Architects.

The “Buildy” Award will be presented the evening of March 1 at 5:30 PM in the Rotunda of the National Museum of the American Indian, New York, N.Y. at the 2010 Building Museums® Symposium presented by the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museum’s. Registration to the symposium is still open and the early-bird deadline has been extended one week to February 5. Register for the conference now!

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Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman Architects Senior Associate Greg Karn will be the featured speaker at the next IDNY: New York City Architecture + Design Meetup sponsored by Designer Pages. He will present the firm’s work at the recently completed W Hoboken Hotel and Condominiums. Karn played a key role in the project’s design and realization, which resulted from his collaboration with Principal Robert Siegel FAIA, Associate Partner Dirk Kramer AIA, Senior Associate Steven Forman AIA, Associate Thomas Florkewicz RA, and the late Charles Gwathmey. The event is free and refreshments will be provided.

February 11, 2010
6:30PM – 8:30PM

B&B Italia
150 East 58th Street
(at Lexington Avenue)
2nd Floor

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Charles Gwathmey Passed Away on Monday, August 3rd, 2009.

Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman Architects deeply mourns the loss of our respected and beloved colleague, friend and mentor. We all feel very privileged to have worked with and learned from one of the great architects of our time. We are honored to have collaborated with Charles to help him realize a remarkable portfolio of built work spanning more than four decades. We have been and will always be inspired and guided by his dedication, prodigious talent, love of architecture, rigorous standards and enduring commitment to Modernism. As we go forward in our practice, we will continue to aspire to his example as an architect and a person. We offer our deepest sympathies to his wife Bette-Ann and his entire family.

Donations in his honor may be made to the Charles Gwathmey Scholarship Fund at the Yale School of Architecture. Gifts should be directed to:

Yale University
c/o Monica C. Robinson
Yale University Office of Development
PO Box 2038
New Haven, CT 06521-2038

Read the New York Times obituary and Times Topics People.

Watch the report from the Tuesday, August 4th NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams:

The 225-room hotel is now fully operational. It offers a variety of amenities such as The Chandelier Room, a lounge with panoramic views of Manhattan, Zylo, a Tuscan steakhouse, and a Bliss spa. Its 40 condominium residences quickly sold at record prices.

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Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman architect Stephen Sudak created an educational brochure for the museum, which explains some of the key LEED credits achieved and relates them to artwork from the collection. He wrote all the text and worked with the museum’s staff to select the images. Steve’s brochure garnered the project a point toward its USGBC certification.

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Paul Rudolph (1918–1997) was one of the foremost architects and teachers of the 1950s and 1960s. To a remarkable extent, Rudolph’s reputation rose and fell along with the fortunes of postwar modernism in America, say the event organizers. In the 1970s and 1980s, he became increasingly marginalized because of the dramatic shift in cultural values that followed the Vietnam War, the organizers note.

Timed to coincide with the School of Architecture’s current exhibition, “Model City: Buildings and Projects by Paul Rudolph for Yale and New Haven,” this symposium was convened by the exhibition’s curator, Timothy M. Rohan, to reconsider Rudolph’s architecture and the discipline’s assessment of his contributions. The schedule of events follows:

January 23:

1:30 p.m.
Presentations by
Kazi K. Ashraf, Robert
Bruegmann, Sandy Isenstadt,
Kathleen James-Chakraborty,
Pat Kirkham, Réjean
Legault, Ken Tadashi
Oshima, Hilary Sample6:30 p.m.
Keynote Address
Paul Rudolph Lecture
Adrian Forty
University College, London
“Matter Immaterial: the paradox of concrete architecture”

January 24:

9 a.m.–6 p.m.
Presentations by
Hilary Ballon, Lizabeth
Cohen, Sam Jacob, Sylvia
Lavin, Louis Martin, Eric
Mumford, Dietrich Neumann,
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen,
Emmanuel Petit, Alan
Plattus, Timothy M. Rohan,
Joel Sanders, Lawrence
Scarpa, George Wagner,
Marion Weiss,
Carter Wiseman“Reassessing Rudolph” is supported in part by the generosity of the President of Yale University, Richard C. Levin, and by the Paul Rudolph Lectureship Fund.

Events are all free and open to the public, but owing to space considerations reservations must be made in advance for the January 23-24 symposium. For details, call Robie-Lyn Harnois at 203-432-8621.

37 submissions were received in the first round. Through a rigorous evaluation process, nine firms were selected to continue: Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman Architects; Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects; KieranTimberlake; Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates; Richard Meier & Partners, Architects; Morphosis Architects; Pei Cobb Freed & Partners; Perkins + Will; and Skidmore Owings and Merrill.

The jury will judge the presentations made by these distinguished firms and then invite four or five of the firms to submit formal designs in the third and final phase of the design competition.

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Following its renovation and restoration, undertaken with the support of Sid R. Bass, Paul Rudolph’s renowned 1963 Art & Architecture Building was rededicated and officially renamed Paul Rudolph Hall in a two-day celebration of the acclaimed architect’s life and work on November 7 and 8.

The Rudolph Building is part of a new arts complex, which includes the new Jeffrey H. Loria Center for the History of Art and the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, and the weekend events also marked the opening of this historic addition to the Yale campus.

Designed by Yale School of Architecture alumnus Charles Gwathmey of Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman Architects, the arts complex forms a vibrant hub where leading architects, designers and art historians will be trained and groundbreaking ideas generated.

Highlights of the weekend’s events were a keynote lecture, by Timothy Rohan, curator of the current exhibition in the gallery of the Rudolph building: “Model City: Buildings and Projects by Paul Rudolph for Yale and New Haven,” and two panel discussions about Rudolph’s legacy moderated by architecture critic Paul Goldberger. Among the eminent panelists were Pritzker Prize-winners, and Yale School of Architecture alumni, Sir Norman Foster and Sir Richard Rogers.

The rededication of the newly renovated Paul Rudolph Hall took place 45 years to the day after the official opening of Paul Rudolph’s 20th-century modernist monument. Yale University President Richard Levin, Yale School of Architecture Dean Robert Stern, and donors Sid R. Bass ’65, Jeffrey H. Loria ’62, Robert B. Haas ’69 were among those dignitaries who marked this historic milestone.

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