Gluckman Mayner Architects, located in New York City, is the successor firm to Richard Gluckman Architects, established in 1977. The office has designed a wide range of institutional, commercial, and residential projects throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. A major component of the firm’s practice has been the design of art-related facilities, and much of the firm’s work has grown out of an exchange with artists, curators and museum directors.
Gluckman Mayner Architects has established a distinguished reputation for its rigorous approach to design and construction. Notable projects include the Dia Center for the Arts (1987), New York, NY; The Andy Warhol Museum (1994), Pittsburgh, PA; the renovation of the Whitney Museum of American Art (1995-1998), New York, NY; Mii amo Spa at Enchantment Resort (2001), Sedona, AZ; The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (1997) and Study Center (2001), Santa Fe, NM; and the Mori Art Center (2003), Tokyo, Japan. In 2004, the office completed the Museo Picasso Malaga, an 80,000-square-foot museum, which included the renovation of a 16th-century palacio and construction of six new buildings, in Malaga, Spain. Gluckman Mayner also designed a floor for the Hotel Puerta America in Madrid, Spain, which opened in September, 2005.
The office recently completed the renovation and expansion of Kenyon Hall at Vassar College (2006); a new church building for the Iglesia Evangelica de Co-op City Metodista Unida in The Bronx (2006); and One Kenmare Square (2006), an 86,000-square-foot mixed-use residential building in Manhattan. Current projects include a 160,000-square-foot facility for the Philadelphia Museum of Art (scheduled for completion in 2007); and a renovation and addition to the Santa Fe Railroad Depot for the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (completed January 2007). The office is also working on a feasibility, programming, and concept study for the University of Kentucky Art Museum and a pre-design and concept study for the University of Georgia Museum of Art.
Richard Gluckman, FAIA, received his Bachelor of Architecture (’70) and Master of Architecture (’71) from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. In addition to his international practice, Richard Gluckman has been a visiting critic at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, Syracuse University and Parsons School of Design. He has sat on numerous academic and professional juries and has served a Peer Reviewer for the General Services Administration.
Gluckman Mayner Architects has received numerous awards from the American Institute of Architects (at both national and local levels) and the Chicago Athenaeum. The firm has also received the Design Distinction Award from I.D. Magazine, the Business Week/Architectural Record Award, Record awards from Architectural Record. In 2005, Richard Gluckman was presented with a National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum.
A monograph entitled, Space Framed: Richard Gluckman Architect, was published by The Monacelli Press, Inc., New York, 2000.