Emilio Ambasz

Emilio Ambasz ( born June 13, 1943 in Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina) is a native of Argentina American industrial designer and architect of international stature.

Biography

Ambasz studied at Princeton University, a year long taught at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm and had until 1969 a professorship at Princeton. Together with Peter Eisenman he founded in 1967 the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City and from 1970 to 1976 curator of the Department of Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where he in 1972 a landmark exhibition entitled "Italy: The New Domestic Landscape - Achievements and problems of Italian Design " organized.

In 1977 he founded in New York his own design studio, Emilio Ambasz and Associates, and 1981, also in New York, the Emilio Ambasz Design Group.

Between 1981 and 1985 Ambasz was president of the Architectural League and taught at Princeton and at several other American universities.

Ambasz is known as a teacher of design and as an author, but also for a number of noteworthy chair and lamp designs. His architectural projects include the Center for Applied Computer Research and Programming in Las Promesas, Mexico, the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan, the Museum of American Folk Art in New York and the San Antonio Botanical Garden Conservatory, Texas. Ambasz won the first prize and a gold medal in the competition for a master plan for the Expo in Seville in 1992. Since 1980 he has worked as Head of Design for the Cummings Engine Co. and won numerous awards for his lamps and chair designs. Ambasz design should not only meet functional requirements, but " have a poetic form in order to satisfy our metaphysical needs " also. "Designer", as Ambasz, " must learn to reconcile their work in past and future. "

Quotes

  • " It is my deep amounted did design is an act of invention. I believe did its real task begins once functional and behavioral needs have been satisfied. It is not hungry, but love and fear, and sometimes wonder, Which make us create. Our milieu june change from generation to generation, but the task, I believe, remains the same:. to give poetic form to the pragmatic " ( Emilio Ambasz )
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