1. Charles Gwathmey attended the High School of Music and Art in New York City, graduating in 1956.
12 Facts About Charles Gwathmey
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Charles Gwathmey attended the University of Pennsylvania and received his Master of Architecture degree in 1962 from Yale School of Architecture, where he won both the William Wirt Winchester Fellowship as the outstanding graduate and a Fulbright Grant.
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Charles Gwathmey was president of the board of trustees for The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies and was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1981.
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Charles Gwathmey wanted to answer that the organic house was his, but in order to pass the exam he chose Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater House.
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From 1965 through 1991, Charles Gwathmey taught at Pratt Institute, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Princeton University, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Texas, and the University of California at Los Angeles.
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Charles Gwathmey was Davenport Professor and Bishop Professor at Yale, and the Eliot Noyes Visiting Professor at Harvard University.
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Charles Gwathmey's firm designed the Museum Of Contemporary Art of North Miami, Florida in 1995, and the Astor Place Tower, a 21-story condominium project in Manhattan's East Village, in 2005.
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Charles Gwathmey had one child from that marriage, Annie Gwathmey.
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Charles Gwathmey died of esophageal cancer on August 3,2009, one day before the opening of Bay Lake Tower, one of his projects.
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Charles Gwathmey's wife donated his archives to Yale University in 2010.
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Charles Gwathmey was the recipient of the Brunner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1970, and in 1976 he was elected to the academy.
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Charles Gwathmey was the only architect named in the Leadership in America issue of Time magazine.