Richard Saul Wurman

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Richard Saul Wurman

Richard Saul Wurman (born March 26, 1935 ) is an American architect and graphic designer .

Career

Wurman received both his bachelor's degree in architecture and his master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with the highest honors in 1959; he was awarded the Arthur Spayed Brooks Gold Medal.

Wurman chaired the IDCA conference in 1972, the First Federal Design Assembly in 1973, and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) annual conference in 1976 . He created and chaired several conferences: TED from 1984 to 2003 and TEDMED from 1995 to 2010. He works with ESRI and RadicalMedia on its comparative cartographic initiative to map urban environments, which will result in the creation of a network of live city observatories around the world in 2021 will culminate.

Wurman also supports the SENS Foundation , a non-profit biotechnology organization that seeks to repair the damage caused by aging and extend healthy life spans.

Awards

He has received several honorary doctorates, Graham Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University . He is the recipient of the Cooper Hewitt Lifetime Achievement Award , Smithsonian Design Museum. Wurman also received the Annual Gold Medal from Trinity College , Dublin , a gold medal from AIGA, and in October 2014 the 50th Annual Bradford Washburn Award from the Boston Science Museum. He is also a Fellow of the AIA and represented in the Art Director's Club Hall of Fame.

Publications

Wurman has written, designed, and published nearly a hundred books on a variety of subjects. These include the notebooks and drawings by Louis I. Kahn (1963) and What Will Be Has Always Been (1986), the groundbreaking collection of Kahn's words.

Wurman's map-based and infographic travel guides include the Access travel series (starting with Access / LA in 1980), several books on healthcare, and Understanding USA (1999). Wurmans influential series Information Anxiety was published in 1989, with a second edition in 2000. Among his books on information architecture and information design include Information Architects (1996) and Understanding Understanding (2017).

Private life

Wurman lives in Golden Beach , Florida with his wife, writer Gloria Nagy . The couple have four children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2004 AIGA Medalist: Richard Saul Wurman. Accessed May 31, 2020 .
  2. ↑ The 30th birthday of TED: Richard Saul Wurman at TED2014. In: TED Blog. March 17, 2014, accessed May 31, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Get Involved. Retrieved May 31, 2020 (American English).
  4. ^ TED Founder Richard Saul Wurman to Discuss TED, Judaism at Hillel. January 30, 2018, accessed May 31, 2020 (American English).

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SURNAME Wurman, Richard Saul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American architect and graphic designer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1935