Charles Gwathmey Remained Loyal to the High Modernism Spirit

House on Bluff Road, Amagansett, Eastern Long Island

If you look at this house, some villas designed in the Twenties come to mind: Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto... The house from Eastern Long Island was designed in 1965: cubes, cylinders and triangles joining their efforts to teach us something at the confluence between geometry and poetry.

Or look a little bit at the Condominium Tower from Astor Place in Manhattan, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe will come to mind, with his 1921's Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper project.

Astor Place Condominium Tower

Architect Charles Gwathmey, who passed away on August 3rd, remained always loyal to the spirit of the Twenty's Vanguard.

You should read the articles devoted to Charles Gwathmey in NY Times and in The NewYorker.

Charles Gwathmey Addition to Frank Lloyd Wright's design of the Guggenheim

Charles Gwathmey Proposal for the World Trade Center Site

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