Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects


Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman & Associates Architects LLC is a New York City-based architectural firm founded in 1967 by architects Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel.
The firm's work ranges from art and educational facilities and major corporate buildings to furniture systems and decorative art objects. Critics view Gwathmey Siegel's work as the stylistic successors of the formal modernism of Swiss architect Le Corbusier. The firm is especially well known for its residential architecture having designed houses for such famous clients as Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, and Ronald Lauder. The architecture critic, Paul Goldberger, writing in 2005, described their houses as "expertly crafted, staggeringly expensive, and not particularly avant-garde."

History

Gwathmey and Siegel met while students at The High School of Music & Art in New York City in the 1950s.
The firm designed place settings for American Airlines.
Gene Kaufman joined the firm as partner soon after Charles Gwathmey died of cancer in August 2009. He acquired majority share and his name was added to the firm.
Archives from the firm were donated to Yale in 2010.

Selected works