Hugh Stubbins
Hugh Asher Stubbins, Jr. (born January 11, 1912 in Birmingham , Alabama , † July 5, 2006 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was an American architect .
Life
Hugh Stubbins, son of a shoe seller, graduated in architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta in 1934 and from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in Cambridge in 1935 . Stubbins was a top athlete and a candidate for the 1936 Olympics; however, he was unable to attend due to an injury to the Achilles tendon.
From 1935 to 1943 he initially worked as a designer and draftsman and in 1940 became an assistant to Walter Gropius .
Under the influence of Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Alvar Aalto , Stubbins showed early on a special interest in space, form and aesthetics within his buildings. His congress hall in Berlin (today House of World Cultures), nicknamed "Pregnant Oyster", which was built for the International Building Exhibition in 1957 , received international attention . In 1957, Stubbins was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
The Citigroup Center , which was built between 1973 and 1978, attracted attention due to its unusually sloping roof structure and the church on the same property, which was built over with the help of a pillar structure. In 1974, Stubbins was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design in New York .
His Landmark Tower , completed in 1993 in Yokohama , is the tallest building in Japan. In 1992 Stubbins, who realized 800 buildings worldwide, retired from professional life. The Stubbins Associates , which he founded in 1949 , now employs 500 people and is a global architecture firm.
He was married to Diana Moore from 1936 to 1965, then to Colette Fadeuihle until her death in 1995 and to June Kootz again until her death in 2001. The marriages produced three sons and one daughter.
buildings
- 1957 Congress Hall , Berlin
- 1960 Loeb Drama Center, Harvard
- 1965 Francis A. Countway Medical Library, Harvard
- 1968 Forsyth Wickes Addition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- 1970 George Robert White Wing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- 1973–1977 Citigroup Center , New York City
- 1976–1978 Federal Reserve Bank, Boston
- 1976 Mechanical Plant Boston City Hospital, Boston
- 1986 Treasury Building, Singapore
- 1990 Bank One Tower, Indianapolis
- 1993 Landmark Tower, Yokohama
Individual evidence
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "S" / Stubbins, Jr., Hugh A. NA 1974 ( memento of the original from March 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 17, 2015)
literature
- Dianne M. Ludman: Hugh Stubbins and his associates the first fifty years . 1986, ISBN 0-9617416-1-9
- Muriel Emmanuel: Contemporary Architects . St. Martin's Press, 1980, ISBN 0-312-16635-4 .
- H. Klotz: New York Architecture 1970–1990 . Prestel Verlag, 1989, ISBN 3-7913-0923-4
- Steffen de Rudder: The Architect Hugh Stubbins - American Modernism of the Fifties in Berlin . JOVIS Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-939633-23-5
Web links
- Stubbins architecture firm
- Landmark Tower
- "Hugh Stubbins Jr., 94, Creator of Emblematic Skyscrapers, Is Dead" , New York Times November 1, 2006
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stubbins, Hugh |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stubbins, Hugh Asher Jr. (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham , Alabama |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 5, 2006 |
| Place of death | Cambridge , Massachusetts |