Peter Chermayeff
Peter Chermayeff ( b. 1936 in London) is an American architect, designer and project developers.
Life
He is the son of Russian-born architect Serge Chermayeff ( 1900-1996 ). At the age of four years, he came to the U.S.. Through his famous father, he came early with people like Walter Gropius and Richard Buckminster Fuller in contact.
He studied at Phillips Academy in Andover and Harvard College, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1957. He then studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and graduated in 1962 with a Master of Architecture from.
During his design studies, he turned in 1961 his first experimental film Orange and Blue. In the years 1971 and 1984 he made two expeditions to the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. There he made several films about animals that were later used like in the U.S. as educational films.
In 1962, just 26 years old, he competed with six fellow partners for the construction of the New England Aquarium in Boston. To everyone's surprise, the young team won this contract that just the day before had registered the company " Cambridge Seven Associates " ( C7A ) as a common architectural firm. With this order, Chermayeff established his worldwide fame as the most famous designers of large aquariums.
Chermayeff developed with C7A in the 1960s design guidelines and standards for Boston's public transport system, the U.S. exhibition and the U.S. pavilion at the World Expo in Montreal in 1967, the San Antonio Museum of Art in San Antonio ( Texas), the Nivola Museum in Orani (Sardinia ) and six large aquariums.
After completion of the New England Aquarium in Boston ( 1969) he built in the following years the large aquariums in Baltimore ( National Aquarium, 1981), Osaka ( The Ring of Fire Aquarium, 1990), Chattanooga (Tennessee ) (Tennessee Aquarium, 1992), Genoa ( Aquarium of Genova, 1992) and Lisbon ( Oceanário de Lisboa, 1998).
Unrealized plans were the Irish National Aquarium, the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and designs for La Ciotat (France), Oberhausen, Dusseldorf, Bremerhaven ( Ocean Park Bremerhaven ) and Hamburg (Harbor City).
1998 Chermayeff left his first company C7A and founded with the two younger partners Sollogub Peter and Bobby Poole, the company CSP. The company's activity extended to architecture, urban development, exhibition design, graphic design, film production and the management of interdisciplinary design teams.
With CSP Chermayeff had the leading role in projects such as the rainforest in the Environmental Project in Iowa, the plans for the Hudson Oceanarium for Pier 40 in Manhattan, a large aquarium in Singapore, the National Museum of Marine Science and Technology in Taiwan, and for the competition project of the Museum of Science and Technology in Milwaukee (Wisconsin ) and in the planning for the expansion of the Aquarium Berlin and the Berlin Zoo.
In 1990 he also founded the company IDEA for project development, project management, construction management and start-up operation of large aquariums. Chermayeff was since the founding president of this company.
Chermayeff taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, is a member of the Board of Design Consultants, University of Pennsylvania, the Board of Advisors of Boston University 's School of Visual Arts, and the Visiting Committee of the Rhode Iceland School of Design. Since 1983 he is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.