Charles Rose (architect)

Charles Rose
Charles Rose
Born	April 27, 1960 (1960-04-27) (age 51) New York City, U.S.
Nationality	American
Work
Buildings	Leeper Studio Complex at the Atlantic Center for the Arts Carl and Ruth Shapiro Admissions Center Bartholomew County Veterans Memorial Jean Vollum Drawing, Painting, and Photography Building

Charles Rose (born 1960 New York City) is an American architect whose designs reflect a sensitivity for landscape and the distinct characteristics of a building site – whether in rugged coastal settings or dense urban neighborhoods.

Awards

As design principal of Boston-based Charles Rose Architects, Inc., Rose is the winner of prestigious awards from the American Institute of Architects and international competitions that established the firm's reputation. In 1995, he won the competition for the Bartholomew County Veterans Memorial in Columbus, Indiana,^[1] in 2000, he won for the Beacom School of Business at The University of South Dakota in Vermillion, a pivotal contest that led to a commission to design the school's Theodore R. and Karen K. Muenster University Center, completed 2009.

Practice

Buildings for academic, cultural and non-profit institutions are the mainstays of Rose's practice, along with private homes that have drawn acclaim for creating warm, modernist spaces that are "sculptural and lyrical."^[2] Orleans House and the New York penthouse Rose completed in 2010 for violinist Joshua Bell are notable examples. Rose also completed several large-scale institutional projects in 2010: the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Admissions Center at Brandeis University in Waltham, Ma. (a second project for Brandeis, after the 65,000 square foot Carl and Ruth Shapiro Campus Center ,which opened in 2002) and the Jean Vollum Drawing, Painting, and Photography Building at Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland. The firm's expertise with energy-efficient design continues to grow in scale and complexity, particularly with two significant federal and state commissions: a zero-net-energy consumption transit center for the state of Massachusetts and a 60,000-square-foot office building in Portsmouth, NH. Also planned as zero-net-energy consumption, it was commissioned by the U.S. General Services Administration's "Design Excellence Program"; construction is slated to begin in 2011.

Career

Leeper Studio Complex

Bartholomew County Veterans Memorial

Rose earned degrees in architecture at Princeton University and Harvard's Graduate School of Design, studying under Michael Graves and Rafael Moneo. After Harvard, Rose worked with landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh, an experience that influenced his design philosophy of architecture that "sees the site." ^[3] He established his practice in Boston in 1989 and in two decades completed more than 50 buildings, thereby establishing his reputation through built projects – in contrast to the "paper architects" who strive to become known through theoretical designs. Two early examples of Rose's architecture that "sees the site" are the Leeper Studio Complex at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Fla. (1997), and Camp Paint Rock (2000) in Hyattville, Wyo. While the projects occupy dramatically different settings – one is in a lush rainforest-like environment on Florida's east coast; the other, a camp for underprivileged teens in a northern Wyoming canyon – each bears hallmarks of Rose's signature style. Buildings are knit into the landscape (rather than objects on the land); forms resonate with features of the site and mediate the site's unique demands,^[4] such as climate and orientation toward the sun. Important commissions followed, including a commercial project in 1997 for Gemini Consulting to design an "office of the future" (which won a business design award from BusinessWeek and Architectural Record); Gulf Coast Museum of Art (Largo, Fl., 2001); the award-winning United States Port of Entry in Del Rio, Texas (another "Design Excellence" project for the GSA, 2004), and the Currier Center for the Performing Arts at The Putney School (Putney, Vt., 2004). While building his practice, Rose also taught in the architecture programs at many universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Virginia, and Harvard and Rice universities. Rose also designs furniture; his Executive Mother and Child Desk was featured in Dwell magazine in 2006.^[5]

Carbon-Neutral or Zero Net Energy Consumption design

Rose's designs incorporate energy-efficient features, such as geothermal, planted roofs, and louver systems that increase natural lighting. Its most innovative and energy-efficient building – a sculptural brick-and-copper-clad 25,000-square-foot transit center in Greenfield, Ma. – is designed to produce as much energy as it uses by drawing on geothermal sources, a wood-chip boiler and photovoltaic array. The project, funded in part by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, is the state's first zero-net-energy transit center and will serve as an office, bus station, and train depot on the upgraded "Knowledge Corridor" rail line that goes from Connecticut through Massachusetts to Vermont.^[6] Construction is scheduled to be complete in December 2011.

Biography

Rose is one of five children raised by Waldorf schoolteachers in Garden City, Long Island. He attended the Waldorf School of Garden City from K-12 and pursued study of piano in New York at the Manhattan School of Music prior to college. He enrolled at Princeton University as a scholarship student and physics major but soon switched to architecture. He has lived in Boston since attending the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

Selected works

Orleans House

• Leeper Studio Complex at the Atlantic Center for the Arts (New Smyrna Beach, Florida, 1997)
• Carl and Ruth Shapiro Admissions Center at Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts, 2009)
• Bartholomew County Veterans Memorial (Bartholomew County, Indiana, 1996)
• Beacom School of Business at The University of South Dakota (Vermillion, South Dakota, 2009)
• Camp Paint Rock (Hyattville, Wyoming, 2000)
• Carl and Ruth Shapiro Campus Center at Brandeis University(Waltham, Massachusetts, 2002)
• Chilmark Residence (Chilmark, Massachusetts, 2001)
• Executive Mother and Child Desk (2006)
• Franklin Regional Transit Center (Greenfield, Massachusetts, 2011)
• Gemini Consulting Global Offices(Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997)
• Joshua Bell Loft(New York, New York, 2010)
• Orleans House(Orleans, Massachusetts, 2006)
• Theodore R. and Karen K. Muenster University Center at The University of South Dakota (Vermillion, South Dakota, 2009)

Gallery

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  Orleans House
  Charles Rose
  Orleans, Massachusetts

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  Camp Paint Rock
  Charles Rose
  Hyattville, Wyoming

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  Leeper Studio Complex
  Charles Rose
  New Smyrna Beach, Florida

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  Veterans Memorial
  Charles Rose
  Bartholomew County, Indiana

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  Admissions Center
  Charles Rose
  Waltham, Massachusetts

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  Admissions Center
  Charles Rose
  Waltham, Massachusetts

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  Jean Vollum Drawing, Painting, and Photography Building
  Charles Rose
  Portland, Oregon

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  Theodore R. and Karen K. Muenster University Center
  Charles Rose
  Vermillion, South Dakota

References

1. ^ Kroloff, Reed: "Columns of Memory," Architecture, September 1997.
2. ^ Aronson, Steven A.L. "Joshua Bell: Orchestrating a penthouse in New York for the virtuoso violinist," Architectural Digest, May 2010.
3. ^ Carter, Brian. "The Work of Charles Rose." Charles Rose, Architect. New York: Princeton Architectural, 2006. 188.
4. ^ Carter, Brian, and Annette W. LeCuyer. "Charles Rose Architects." All American: Innovation in American Architecture. [New York, NY] : Thames & Hudson, 2002. 68-81.
5. ^ Executive Mother and Child Desk, Dwell, June 2006.
6. ^ Schaeffer, Julie. "Challenging Modern Aesthetic Trends." Green Building & Design, October (2010): 44-46.

External links

• example.com

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Name	Rose, Charles
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Date of birth	1960-04-27
Place of birth	New York City, U.S.
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