Brad Cloepfil

Brad Cloepfil ( born 1956 in Portland, Oregon, USA) is an American architect and founder and co-owner of the architectural firm Allied Works Architecture in Portland.

Life

Cloepfil grew up near Portland and studied architecture at the University of Oregon. There he met, among others, the buildings of Lou Kahn know. After completing his bachelor's degree in 1980, he went to Switzerland to input received in the office of Mario Botta. In 1985 he was awarded at Columbia University in New York City the title of Master of Architecture. In New York he became acquainted with the buildings of Richard Serra and the artists of land art know. In the next few years he taught in New York City, California and Oregon, before he 1994mit partners built his own architectural office.

Work of the architect and his office

• Maryhill Overlook of the Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Washington: The lookout was completed in 1998 are 11 buildings which form a 2.4 meter wide and 45 meter long structure of prestressed concrete. The buildings associated with the visible on the opposite side of the Columbia River in the state of Oregon mesas.

The Outlook is the Siting previously only performed by the architectural office to which each of the architecture is to communicate with the circumstances of the particular place.

• Wieden Kennedy Building: The project in Portland, Oregon dealt with the conversion of a warehouse from 1908, which last served as a cold store. From the dark building with masonry and timber frame was a light-filled office building through the use of concrete and recycled wood. The success of the architecture brought to the office further orders from Wieden Kennedy and other clients.

• Museum of Contemporary Art St. Louis: Allied Works Architects won the competition against world-famous architects such as Peter Zumthor, Herzog & de Meuron and Rem Koolhaas. The construction was completed in 2003 is located opposite the planned by Tadao Ando building of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and was completed in 2003. It serves as an exhibition hall because the museum does not have a collection.

• Seattle Art Museum Expansion: The project of 2002 expanded the museum in 1991 started by Robert Venturi and represents an insurance company office space available to the Museum suitable space logs.

• Museum of Arts and Design, New York: The Museum commissioned in 2002 Cloepfil with the conversion of the building 2 Columbus Circle in Manhattan, which was completed in 2008. Both before the conversion, and after intensive discussions about the project were conducted.

• Clyfford Still Museum, Denver: 2011, the museum, which is the Denver Art Museum by the architect Daniel Libeskind over, opened. In the museum, the life's work of the American abstract artist Clyfford Still will be issued.

• University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, Michigan: completed in 2009.