Cass Gilbert

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Cass Gilbert
The Woolworth Building in New York

Cass Gilbert (born November 24, 1859 in Zanesville , Ohio , † May 17, 1934 in Brockenhurst , England ) was an American architect .

He studied at MIT and first worked for the architecture firm McKim, Mead, and White . After several years of independent practice in Minnesota , he managed to establish himself in New York . His Woolworth Building (1910–13) was the tallest building in the world for over 15 years and is considered to have shaped the New York skyscraper style of the 1920s. Another high-rise project that Gilbert has implemented is the New York Life Insurance Building (1925–1928). Between 1926 and 1933 Gilbert was the presidency of the National Academy of Design . Gilbert also designed the classicist United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, DC, built between 1932 and 1935. He also designed the Brooklyn Army Terminal .

In 1906 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 1934, the year he died, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society .

literature

  • Barbara S. Christians; Steven Flanders (Ed.): Cass Gilbert, Life and Work: Architect of the Public Domain. WW Norton & Co, New York 2001, ISBN 978-0-393-73065-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Study for Woolworth Building, New York . December 10, 1910. Retrieved July 25, 2013.
  2. ^ Cass Gilbert-Designed Works / Offices & Banks / New York Life Building , cassgilbertsociety.org, accessed June 11, 2015
  3. ^ Past Academicians "G": Gilbert, Cass NA 1908; PNAD 1926-33 ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , nationalacademy.org, accessed June 10, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  4. ^ Members: Cass Gilbert. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 30, 2019 .
  5. ^ Member History: Cass Gilbert. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 19, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Gilbert, Cass
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Zanesville , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1934
Place of death Brockenhurst , England