Hugh Stubbins
Hugh ( Asher ) Stubbins Jr. ( born January 11, 1912 in Birmingham, Alabama; † July 5, 2006 in Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American architect.
Life
Hugh Stubbins, son of a shoe seller graduated in 1934 in Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and 1935 at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in Cambridge. Stubbins was a star athlete and candidate for the 1936 Olympic Games; However, he could not attend due to an injury to the Achilles tendon.
From 1935 to 1943 he worked as a designer and illustrator and in 1940 assistant to Walter Gropius.
Under the influence of Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Alvar Aalto standing, Stubbins showed early a special interest in space, form and aesthetics within its buildings. International attention was his resulting to the International Building Exhibition 1957 Congress Hall in Berlin ( now the House of World Cultures ), nicknamed the " pregnant oyster ".
The resultant in the years 1973-1978 Citigroup Center fell through his unusual slant roof construction as well as. Overbuilt by using a Pfeilerkonstuktion church on the same property
Its finished in 1993 Yokohama Landmark Tower is the tallest building in Japan. 1992, moved Stubbins, who realized 800 buildings around the world, back from working life. The company he founded in 1949 The Stubbins Associates employs 500 people and is a global architectural firm.
He was from 1936 to 1965 with Diana Moore, then married until her death in 1995 with Colette Fadeuihle and again until her death in 2001 with June Kootz. From the marriage three sons and one daughter were born.