Chuck Hoberman

Chuck Hoberman (born 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) is an inventor of folding toys and structures, most notably the Hoberman sphere. He won the Chrysler Design Award for Innovation and Design in 1997 and was a finalist for the 2000 Smithsonian National Design Award.

Creations

Hoberman Arch, Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Cauldron Park

In addition to toys such as the Hoberman sphere,the largest of which resides at Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey, Hoberman created the BrainTwist, a hard plastic tetrahedron that folds, stellates, and becomes self-dual while having a component that rotates similarly to a Rubiks Cube. Likewise, Chuck Hoberman's Pocket Flight Ring is a folding, throwable toy resembling a chakram.

Hoberman also has designed folding architectural structures like the Expanding Hypar (1997) at the California Museum of Science and Industry, the Hoberman Arch, the centerpiece of the medals plaza for the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, to a retractable dome featured at the World's Fair 2000 in Hanover, Germany. His artwork has been exhibited at international museums including New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Mycal Otaru Bay in Hokkaidō, Japan.

Hoberman has also created the Expandagon Construction System, a kind of construction toy.

Education

Hoberman studied liberal arts at Brown University, and went on to earn a Bachelor's degree in sculpture from Cooper Union and a Master's degree in engineering from Columbia University.

Business

In 1990, he formed Hoberman Associates. In 1995, he co-founded Hoberman Designs with his wife and business partner, Carolyn Hoberman.

References

External links

• Hoberman Associates - Transformable Design - Team

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