Word: gwathmey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extreme lie the clear, exquisitely modulated voids and surfaces of post-Corbusian designers like Richard Meier, 44, and Charles Gwathmey, 40. In between fall still more manners and interests: the glass caverns of Cesar Pelli, 42; the complicated linguistic play with Pop and history practiced by Robert Venturi, 53, and his firm in Philadelphia; the no less complex, but somewhat less ironic and more playful historicism of Charles Moore, 53, and Robert Stern, 39; the slangy, "high-tech" flexibility of Hugh Hardy, 46, and his firm, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer; the outright jokiness of Stanley Tigerman...
...that asceticism may also be quoted. The work of Richard Meier in particular, and to a lesser extent that of Charles Gwathmey and Michael Graves, is permeated by the Corbusian dream of the "white world," the building as a metaphor of clarity, order and singularity set against the enveloping otherness of nature. (If Mies and the grid-internationalists have ceased to be quotable, Le Corbusier has not; and the difference is due to the richness of Corbu's ideas, his use of volume and surface rather than abstract space.) Meier's architecture is highly abstract, but it is not inhospitable...
...Charles Gwathmey relates the purity of Meier's buildings, and his own, to direct expression rather than a longing for the abstract or Utopian form: "Our work has been called very abstract, but we wanted the exterior and interior of the building to be simultaneous. The form is derived
...diversionary doodads. The façade equals the living space. At night, with the lights on in the building, you can see the spatial organization-you're reading the building as a negative." Yet this constructivist approach can coexist with vestiges of a low-pitched Spanish mission roof, as in Gwathmey's recent Long Island house...
...Charles Gwathmey, 36. He is best known as the designer of university buildings like Whig Hall, the contemporary student center built into the burned-out shell of a building at Princeton, as well as private residences and beach houses. Within his profession, however, the North Carolina-born, Yale-educated architect is conspicuous for his innovative approach to high-density housing. "Low-cost housing is a social problem," he says, noting that lack of privacy is the chief shortcoming of most public apartment projects...