Hugh Hardy

Hugh Gelston Hardy ( born July 26, 1932 in Mallorca, Spain) is an American architect who became famous for numerous new construction and renovation of theaters and cultural centers in the United States.

Life

Hardy attended Princeton University and completed his studies with a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Fine Arts from. He served as a pioneer in the United States Army and then was assistant to Eero Saarinen and Jo Mielziner Vivian Beaumont Theatre during the construction of New York.

In 1963 he founded his architectural firm Hugh Hardy & Associates, from 1967, the firm Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer was born. His partners were the architect Malcolm Holzman and Norman Pfeiffer. Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer soon became the leading architecture firm for new construction and renovation of theaters and concert halls in North America. 1995 Julie Iovine wrote in the New York Times that there was hardly a " cultural icon " in New York, on which construction Hardy was not involved. In 1999, the office had already completed 115 such projects and employed 130 employees in New York and Los Angeles.

2004 separated the three partners founded with parts of the workforce have their own offices. Hardy founded the firm H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture ( with five partners ) in New York. H3 puts special emphasis on sustainable construction; 70 % of the 35 employees are LEED zertifizert.

Hardy is married to the Italian architect Tiziana Hardy and has two children.

Awards

Hardy is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and was appointed a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1993.

He won the 2001 Placemark Award from the Design History Foundation, the 2002 President's Award of the New York Association of the AIA and 2010, the President's Medal from the Architectural League of New York.

Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer received the 1981 Architecture Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects, considered the highest honor for architecture firms in the United States.

Buildings

(Selection)

  • New York Academy of Sciences on the 40th floor of the skyscraper 7 World Trade Center, New York, 2006
  • Casa 74, 30-story residential building with 87 condominiums, 255 East 74th Street, Upper East Side, New York, 2008
  • Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, 2011
  • Federal Courthouse, Jackson, Mississippi, 2011
  • DiMenna Center for Classical Music ( Orchestra of St. Luke's ), New York, 2011
  • Richard B. Fisher Building, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York, 2013

Writings

  • Hugh Hardy: When Two Worlds Become One, in: Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates ( Eds.): theater. Back Stage Books, New York 2000, ISBN 0-8230-8944-4, pp. 18-21
  • Hugh Hardy, Mildred Friedman: Theater of architecture. Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2013, ISBN 978-1-61689-131-2
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