Edward Durell Stone
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Edward Durell Stone (1902 Fayetteville, Arkansas - 1978 New York City) was an American modernist twentieth century architect.
Stone attended the University of Arkansas, Harvard University, and MIT and established his own firm in New York in 1936. After a period of strict interpretation of International Style, in the 1950s Stone departed from modernist strictures and developed an individual, idiosyncratic style which included patterns of ornament. By some accounts, this was through the influence of his wife. Treated as a renegade, Stone continued to receive major commissions in the United States and abroad. Stone's design talents were perpetuated through the work of his son, Edward Durell Stone, Jr., whose firm, EDSA, was voted among the ten most influential landscape architecture firms in the U.S.
Recently, his life and career have received renewed attention due to the destruction or alteration of some of the structures he designed.
Among these are the demolition of Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri and major alteration to 2 Columbus Circle in New York City. Additionally, the North Carolina State renovated its chamber, covering over Stone's brass decorations with white neoclassical pilasters and pediments.
Interest in landmarking Stone's 2 Columbus Circle began in 1996, soon after the building turned thirty years old and became eligible for landmark designation. In this year, Robert A. M. Stern included it in his article " A Preservationist's List of 35 Modern Landmarks-in-Waiting" written for the New York Times. [1] [2] In 2004, the National Trust for Historic Preservation called it one of America's "11 Most Endangered Historic Places," and in 2006 it was listed as one of the World Monuments Fund's "100 Most Endangered Sites." Despite a serious preservation effort, The Museum of Arts & Design has radically altered the building for their occupation in 2008.
[edit] Selected works
- Radio City Music Hall, in Rockefeller Center, New York City (with Wallace Harrison and Donald Deskey, 1932)
- Museum of Modern Art, New York City, (with Philip S. Goodwin, 1939)
- Ingersoll Steel, Utility Unit House, Kalamazoo (1946)
- Fine Arts Center, University of Arkansas (1950)
- Harvey Mudd College (1955)
- Edward Durell Stone House, New York City (1956)
- Park Lane Residence, Dallas (1956)
- United States Embassy, New Delhi, India (1958); the city hall in Paducah, Kentucky reused the same design.
- U.S. Pavilion at Expo 58, Brussels (1958)
- Carlson Terrace, Fayetteville, Arkansas (1958, partially demolished 2005, 2007)
- Robert M. Hughes Memorial Library, Old Dominion University (1959)
- Gulf Oil Gasoline Station, John F. Kennedy International Airport, (1959)
- Arie Crown Theater, Chicago (1960, altered 1997)
- First Unitarian Society's church, Schenectady, New York (1961)
- Phoenicia Hotel, Beirut, Lebanon (1961, Altered 1997)
- 2 Columbus Circle, New York City (1962, altered 2006)
- North Carolina Legislative Building, Raleigh, North Carolina (1963) -- Photos show Senate chamber before renovations.
- Beckman Auditorium, California Institute of Technology (1964)
- National Geographic Building, Washington, DC (1964)
- Ponce Museum of Art, Ponce, Puerto Rico (1964)
- World Trade Center of New Orleans (1965)
- Claremont School of Theology (1965)
- Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri (1966, demolished 2005)
- Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey (1968)
- State University of New York at Albany (1968)
- Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC (1971)
- Georgetown University Law Center's Bernard P. McDonough Hall, Washington, DC (1971)
- Standard Oil Building (now known as Aon Center), Chicago (1972)
- City Hall, Fort Worth, Texas (1975)
- Florida State Capitol (1977)
- University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (1977)
- PepsiCo World Headquarters Complex, Purchase, New York
- Stuhr Museum, Grand Island, Nebraska
- W.E.B. DuBois Library, University of Massachusetts (1973)
- Museum of Anthropology, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico (1986)
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[edit] See also
[edit] External links
Warning: the following link is a very subjective view on the future of 2 Columbus Circle that does not attempt to represent all sides to the argument.
