Rafael Viñoly
Rafael Viñoly Beceiro (born June 1, 1944 in Montevideo ) is an American architect of Uruguayan origin. He has lived and worked in the United States since 1978 .
Life
Viñoly was born the son of the film and theater director Román Viñoly Barreto and the math teacher Maria Beceiro . He received his diploma in architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1968 and his Master of Architecture from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning there a year later. As early as 1964 he founded an architecture office with six other architects, which later grew into one of the largest in South America. In 1978 he went with his family to the United States, where he briefly lectured as a guest lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and then from 1979 settled permanently in New York City , where he founded Rafael Viñoly Architects in 1983 . His first major project there was the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (1988). In 1989 he won the international design competition for the International Forum Tokyo , which was completed in 1996 and is now one of the most important cultural complexes in Japan. Rafael Viñoly Architects was also one of the finalists in the design competition for the World Trade Center , which Daniel Libeskind then won. Viñoly is responsible for the design of the high-rise building 20 Fenchurch Street , known as Walkie Talkie , whose concave and mirrored façade with its burning mirror effect has already caused several damage to property from focused rays of the sun . A similar problem occurs at the Hotel Vdara in Las Vegas, also designed by Rafael Viñoly . Viñoly was awarded the Carbuncle Cup 2015 for the high-rise building at 20 Fenchurch Street .
Viñoly is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and a member of the Japan Institute of Architects (JIA) and the Sociedad Central de Arquitectos (SCA). In 1994, Rafael Viñoly was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design in New York .
Buildings (selection)
- Tokyo International Forum, Japan , 1996
- Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts , Philadelphia , 2001
- Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids , 2002
- Watson Institute for International Studies , Brown University , Providence , 2002
- Information Science and Technology Faculty building at Pennsylvania State University , 2003
- David L. Lawrence Convention Center , Pittsburgh , 2003
- University of Chicago Graduate School of Business , Hyde Park Art Center , Chicago , 2004
- Boston Convention and Exhibition Center , Boston , 2004
- Jazz @ Lincoln Center , New York, 2004
- Nasher Museum of Art , Duke University , Durham , 2005
- Mahler 4 Viñoly Toren , Amsterdam , Netherlands, 2005
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute , Janelia Farm Research Campus , Ashburn , 2006
- Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat , Buenos Aires , 2008
- Vdara , Las Vegas , 2009
- 20 Fenchurch Street (" Walkie Talkie "), London , 2014
- 432 Park Avenue , New York City , 2015
- 125 Greenwich Street , New York City, 2018 (under construction)
literature
- Rafael Viñoly: Rafael Viñoly, ISBN 1-56898-373-5
Web links
- Rafael Viñoly's office website
- Literature by and about Rafael Viñoly in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rafael Viñoly. In: arch INFORM .
swell
- ↑ Skyscraper melts Jaguar on Blick.ch , September 3, 2013, accessed on September 4, 2013
- ↑ Burned in Las Vegas: Hotel facade grills sun worshipers. Spiegel Online, October 5, 2010, accessed October 5, 2010 .
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "V" / Viñoly, Rafael, NA 1994 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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 18, 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Viñoly, Rafael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Viñoly Beceiro, Rafael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uruguayan architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montevideo |