Eliot Noyes
Eliot Fette Noyes (born August 12, 1910 in Boston , Massachusetts , USA , † July 18, 1977 in New Canaan , Connecticut ) was an American architect and industrial designer .
life and work
Eliot Noyes was born in Boston and spent his childhood in Colorado until his parents moved to Cambridge . He studied architecture at Harvard University . Even as a child he was intensively involved in drawing and painting .
Eliot Noyes met Le Corbusier in the Harvard library, which would greatly influence his architectural perspective. He then dealt intensively with the ideas of the Bauhaus . Eliot traveled to Iran after graduation and took part in a two-year archaeological expedition.
In 1938 Eliot Noyes worked in the architecture office of Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer in Cambridge. From 1939 to 1946 Eliot was director of the Department of Industrial Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City . This job has been interrupted by the war, during the Second World War he worked for a glider program and as an industrial designer for Norman Bel Geddes and co . After the war, he taught at Yale University for three years .
As an architect he created numerous buildings. His first building was the Tallman House in New Canaan, built in 1950, followed by numerous residential buildings in the area. He also designed the Wilton Library (1974) which is very well known.
Eliot Noyes was a consultant and design director for IBM for twenty-one years . He was significantly involved in the development and design of the "IBM Selectric Typewriter" in 1961. Noyes worked with Thomas J. Watson Jr. , Paul Rand and Charles Eames together. He also built several buildings for IBM. Its most famous buildings are the IBM Building in Garden City, New York (1966), the Aerospace IBM Building in Los Angeles , California (1964), the IBM Hemisfair Pavilion in San Antonio, Texas (1968) and the IBM Management Development Center in Armonk , New York (1980). Noyes also worked with other selected architects, such as Mies van der Rohe , Eero Saarinen , Marco Zanuso and Marcel Breuer , to design IBM buildings around the world , as the person in charge of IBM .
In 1964, some of Eliot Noyes' products were shown at documenta III in Kassel in the Industrial Design department . Eliot Noyes designed numerous products such as typewriters , dictation machines and others for IBM and for other companies, for example motors and other technical devices. He also revised the standard version for all mobile filling stations in the 1960s. His own home in New Canaan, Connecticut is considered a major example of Classical Modern architecture . In 1967 Eliot Noyes was elected Associate Member ( ANA ) of the National Academy of Design in New York .
Noyes' son, Eliot Noyes Jr. (* 1942), works as an animator and graphic designer in San Francisco under the name Eli Noyes .
Individual evidence
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "N" / Noyes, Eliot Fette ANA 1967 ( 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. (accessed on July 6, 2015)
Literature and Sources
- documenta III. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphics; Kassel / Cologne 1964
Web links
- Eliot Fette Noyes, FIDSA. Industrial Designers Society of America , accessed August 16, 2014 (short biography).
- Materials by and about Eliot Noyes in the documenta archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Noyes, Eliot |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Noyes, Eliot Fette |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American architect and industrial designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 1977 |
| Place of death | New Canaan , Connecticut |