- List of Jewish American architects
"This is a list of famous Jewish American architects. For other famous Jewish Americans, see
List of Jewish Americans ."*
Max Abramovitz , architect
*Dankmar Adler , architect andcivil engineer , partner withLouis Sullivan in celebrated firm of Adler and Sullivan
*Armand Phillip Bartos , architect and philanthropist, best known for theShrine of the Book , co-designed withFrederick John Kiesler , housing the gift of theState of Israel of theDead Sea Scrolls by his father-in-lawSamuel Gottesman
*Walter Curt Behrendt , German modernist architect and expert on city planning and housing
*Marcel Breuer , modernist architect and furniture designer
*Arnold Brunner , considered the first successful American born Jewish architect in the US [http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/aja/journal/PDF/54v2/Article54v2-Fine.pdf] - and a city planner as well - he is the namesake of an annual award by theAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters and a grant by the American Institute of Architects' New York chapter
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE6D9133FF932A25757C0A961948260 Alan Buchsbaum] ,high tech architect
*Gordon Bunshaft , modernist architect, partner in firm ofSkidmore, Owings and Merrill
*Giorgio Cavaglieri ,architectural preservationist and painter of gouaches
*Serge Chermayeff ,Grozny -born architect ofSephardic decent whose inter-war partnership withErich Mendelsohn was lauded for bringingmodernism to Britain; was also a writer, professor and co-founder of professional societiesStateside , and father of graphic designerIvan Chermayeff
*Preston Scott Cohen , architect
* Richard Dattner,Bielsko , Poland-born recipient of the American Institute of Architects' Thomas Jefferson Award, its highest honor for public architecture
*Elizabeth Diller , partner with husband Ricardo Scofidio and Charles Renfro inDiller Scofidio + Renfro , the first architectural firm to win the so-called "genius award," aMacArthur Prize
*Dan Dworsky , architect
*John Eberson , Romanian-born architect best known for his atmosphericmovie palaces
*Leopold Eidlitz , architect
*Peter Eisenman , architect
* [http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/061219fox.asp Sheldon Fox] , architect, co-founderKohn Pedersen Fox
* [http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~des00016 Ulrich Franzen] , architect
*James Ingo Freed , architect
*M. Paul Friedberg ,landscape architect
*Frank Gehry , architect, Pritzker Prize (1989)
*Bertrand Goldberg , architect of Chicago's Marina City Center
*Percival Goodman , urban theorist and architect who designed over 50 synagogues; brother ofsociologist /author Paul Goodman
*Victor Gruen , father of the shopping mall
*Lawrence Halprin , landscaper architect/educator
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gables/hiv/mem/israel.html Franklin D. Israel] , architect
* Albert Kahn, industrial architect
*Louis I. Kahn , architect
*Frederick John Kiesler ,Czernowitz -born theater designer, artist, theoretician and architect (see Bartos)
* [http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/A._Eugene_Kohn A. Eugene Kohn] , architect, co-founderKohn Pedersen Fox
*Robert D. Kohn , one-timeAmerican Institute of Architects president, best known for his designs of Reform synagogues and buildings for the New York Society for Ethical Culture
* [http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/reed_kroloff.html Reed Kroloff] , architect/critic, former editor of " Architecture", former dean ofTulane School of Architecture , director of Cranbrook Academy of Art
*Morris Lapidus , once maligned architect of "gorgeous" [http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/ARCH-Lapidus.htm ] , but now celebrated as exemplar of MiMo
*Daniel Libeskind , architect
*Richard Meier , architect, Pritzker Prize (1984)
*Erich Mendelsohn , architect, co-founder of the German architectural collaborativeDer Ring , later practiced inMandatory Palestine before settling in the US in 1941
*Robert Moses , this "master builder" was the subject of Robert Caro'sPulitzer Prize -winning biography, "The Power Broker "
*Eric Owen Moss , architect
* Barbara A. Nadel [http://www.aia.org/nwsltr_yaf.cfm?pagename=yaf_a_060418_leadership_bnadel] , an architect specialized in health care and justice facilities, much in demand for her expertise on design for public and institutional building security [http://books.google.com/books?id=6W1IdJD3Mv0C]
*Richard Neutra , modernist architect
*James Polshek , architect
*Emery Roth , apprentice toDaniel Burnham and architect of classicJazz Age New York apartment buildings and hotels, who founded firm known asthe "builder's architects"
*Martha Schwartz , landscape architect
*Denise Scott Brown , architect, city planner and partner/spouse of architectRobert Venturi
*Clarence Stein ,urban planner , architect and writer, best known for advancing thegarden city movement in the US, as evinced by his own collaborations with architectHenry Wright , Sunnyside Gardens and Radburn*
Robert A. M. Stern , architect
*Moshe Safdie , architect
* [http://www.saitowitz.com/ Stanley Saitowitz] , architect and emeritus architecture professor atUC Berkeley [http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/ced/people/query.php?id=80&dept=&title=&first=Stanley&last=Saitowitz&ced&berkeley]
* Rudolph Schindler, Austrian-born modernist architect known for his private houses in LA.
*Raphael Soriano Rhodes-born architect/educator of Sephardi descent whose work epitomizedMid-Century modern
*Michael Sorkin , architectural theorist and academic with non-profit practice, currently directs the graduate program inurban design atCCNY
*Edgar Tafel , architect;Frank Lloyd Wright protege
*Stanley Tigerman , architect
*Joseph Urban , architect,set designer [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/urban/architectOfDreams/text.html] and bookillustrator
*Paul Zucker , architect/city planner in Berlin who joined theUniversity in Exile at theNew School for Social Research
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