Emilio Ambasz

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Emilio Ambasz (born June 13, 1943 in Resistencia , Chaco , Argentina ) is an American industrial designer and architect of international standing from Argentina .

biography

Ambasz studied at Princeton University , taught at the Ulm School of Design for a year and was a professor at Princeton until 1969. Together with Peter Eisenman , he founded the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City in 1967 and from 1970 to 1976 curator of the design department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where in 1972 he organized a pioneering exhibition entitled “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape - Achievements and Problems of Italian Design ”.

In 1977 he founded his own design studio, Emilio Ambasz and Associates , in New York, and in 1981, also in New York, the Emilio Ambasz Design Group .

Between 1981 and 1985 Ambasz was President of the Architectural League and taught at Princeton and several other American universities.

Ambasz is known as a teacher of design and as an author, but also for a number of remarkable chair and lamp designs. His architectural projects include the Center for Applied Computer Research and Programming in Las Promesas, Mexico, the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan, the Museum of American Folk Art in New York, and the San Antonio Botanical Garden Conservatory, Texas. Ambasz won first prize and a gold medal in the competition for a master plan for the 1992 Expo in Seville . Since 1980 he has worked as head of design for the Cummings Engine Co. and has won numerous awards for his lamp and chair designs. Ambasz Design should not only meet functional requirements, but also "have poetic form in order to satisfy our metaphysical needs". "Designers", says Ambasz, "should learn to reconcile the past and the future in their work."

At the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, Ambasz, in close collaboration with Klaus Herlitz, created several products for the school supplies manufacturer Herlitz (including a paint box and a satchel), which were awarded design prizes from the “Museum of Modern Art” .

Quotes

  • “It is my deep belief that design is an act of invention. I believe that its real task begins once functional and behavioral needs have been satisfied. It is not hunger, but love and fear, and sometimes wonder, which make us create. Our milieu may change from generation to generation, but the task, I believe, remains the same: to give poetic form to the pragmatic. " (Emilio Ambasz)

literature

  • Emilio Ambasz: Architecture of Luis Barragan , Museum of Modern Art 1976, ISBN 0-87070-234-3
  • Michael Sorkin , Emilio Ambasz: Emilio Ambasz: The Poetics of the Pragmatic: Architecture, Exhibit, Industrial and Graphic Design , Rizzoli 1989, ISBN 0-8478-0966-8
  • Emilio Ambasz, Tadao Ando, ​​Fumihiko Maki: Emilio Ambasz Inventions: The Reality of the Ideal , Rizzoli International Publications 1992, ISBN 0-8478-1608-7
  • Fulvio Irace: Emilio Ambasz , Skira 2005, ISBN 88-8491-823-5
  • Tina Di Carlo, Terence Riley, Emilio Ambasz: Emilio Ambasz Casa de Retiro Esporitual , Skira 2005, ISBN 88-7624-336-4
  • Emilio Ambasz Emerging Nature - Precursor of Architecture and Design Lars Müller Publishers 2017, ISBN 978-3-03778-526-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charlotte & Peter Fiell: Design of the 20th Century , Taschen GmbH Cologne, 2011, page 37 (Emilio Ambasz) ISBN 978-3-8228-4077-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Ambasz, Emilio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American industrial designer and architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Resistencia , Argentina