Ray cap

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Raymond "Ray" cap (born August 4, 1927 in Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA ; † November 21, 2019 ) was an American architect and university professor .

Life

Kap, who came from a Romanian - Jewish immigrant family, was involved in the design and construction of normal wooden houses for the first ten years after graduating as an architect . In the following period he dealt with the development of building modules, prefabricated buildings, passive energy houses and the use of solar systems. While working in his office at Cap Architects Planners , he designed residential, commercial, hotels and college buildings. He also dealt with urban development and planning and was committed to social issues and community tasks.

From 2006 , kap worked with the LivingHomes company on the development of modular systems for residential houses, whereby he attached particular importance to the interplay of good architecture with prefabricated buildings in healthy construction and with sustainable building materials.

Kappes residence , completed in 1967 in Pacific Palisades in western Los Angeles , Cap Residence , was declared a Los Angeles Historical-Cultural Htete Heritage Monument in 1996 and is therefore protected. Another example of his architecture is the Bento Residence built in Brentwood in Los Angeles , in which a steel frame was connected with glued laminated timber .

Cap bequeathed his archive to the Getty Research Institute in 2015 as part of a preliminary inheritance .

Teaching

Cap was a founding faculty member for the architecture faculty at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in 1969 , which he left after three and a half years with some of the students and teachers to set up the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Santa Monica . The institute is now located in Downtown Los Angeles .

Awards and honors

  • Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
  • Richard Neutra International Medal for Design Excellence .
  • California Council / AIA Bernard Maybeck Award for Design Excellence .
  • Topaz Medal from the AIA for its services in education in the field of architecture.
  • AIA Lifetime Achievement Award for life's work.

for his houses at Living Home :

Exhibitions

literature

  • Michael Webb: Themes and Variations: House Design. Ray cap: Architects / Planners . Images Publishers Group, Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia 1998, ISBN 1-86470-007-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ray cap, founding director of SCI-Arc, this at 92 obituary in The Architect's Newspaper of November 22, 2019, accessed on November 27, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Cap, Ray
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cap, Raymond (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 2019