Emilio Ambasz

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Emilio Ambasz

Born in Argentina in 1943, he graduated at Princeton University (Completed the undergraduate

program in one year, and following year, he earned a Master's Degree in Architecture) and at the
age of 27 was already Curator of Design at the New York Museum of Modern Art, where in 1971
he organized the historic exhibition on Italian design "Italy: The New Domestic Landscape". This
exhibition showed his ability as a lively cultural promoter and revealed his profund understanding
of industrial products.
Among these was "Vertebra", the famous series of seat for the office, for which he was presented
with many international
Ambasz is responsible in the design field for the inventions of a completely autonomus form of
planning: new product are designed in global manner including the design of the engineering and
machinery necessary for production.
Ambasz has used this formula planning many other products for furnishing and lighting.
Having put a personal poetics of lightness into practice in a series of interiors, he gradually came
to be an advocator of a closer bond between nature and artifice.
This was paticulary true in a series of projects of buildings which are partially or completely
buried and upon which and around which the natural environment flourishes: examples of these
are the Mycal Cultural Center in Shin-Sanda in Japan, a residence and private art gallery in
Montana, USA, and the Prefectural International Hall in Fukuoka in Japan.
In recognition of his singular creative talent, numerous exhibitions, have been dedicated to him at
important institutions, from the New York Museum of Modern Art ("Emilio Ambasz:
Architecture",1989) to the Milan Triennal (personal architecture and design show, 1995).

Awards
1990 (AIA) Quaternario Award
1987 (AIA) Grand Prize International Interior Design Award
1986 (AIA) IDEA Award (IDSA, Industrial Design)
1976 PA Award

Publications:
Emilio Ambasz : The Poetics of the Pragmatic
The International Design Yearbook 2
Architecture of Luis Barragan
Emilio Ambasz Inventions : The Reality of the Ideal
Emilio Ambasz Steven Holl Architecture
Emilio Ambasz, Inventions : The Reality of the Ideal

Studium: University of Princeton (1966 M.F.A. fr Architektur).

Lehrttigkeit:
1966-69 Princeton, School of Architecture.
1967 zusammen mit Peter Eisenman Grndung des Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies,
New York.
1970-76 Kustos fr Design am Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Seit Mitte der 70er Jahre ttig in Partnerschaft mit dem Designer Giancarlo Piretti, Bologna.
1981 Chief Designer Consultant der Cummins Engine Co., Indiana.
1982 Coordinator of Archit. Section am Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Mitglied:
Industrial Designers Society of America;
1981 President's Advisory Panel on Design and Architecture;
1981-85 Prs. Archit. League, New York.
Auszeichnungen:
1969/70 Graham Found. Fellowship fr Konzept "University of Design";
1973 Award des Amer. Inst. of Graphic Arts fr Katalogeinbandgestaltung;
1975 Prix Jean de la Fontaine;
1976 Progressive Architecture Award fr Grand Rapids Project;
1980 Progressive Architecture Award fr Cordoba house.
Fr Vertebra: 1977 Inst. of Business Gold Prize; 1977 Design Review Award; 1979 Preis des
Salone Mobile et Apporechiature d'Ufficio, Italien; 1981 Industrial Designers Soc. Compasso
d'Oro, Italien.
Fr Logotec: 1980 Nat. Industrial Design Award; 1981 Industrial Design Mag.'s Designers Choice
Award. Fr Dorsal: 1982 Nat. Industrial Design Award; 1982 Deutsche Auswahl '82, Stuttgart.
Alternativ zu den dominierenden Bauweisen rckt A. energietechnologische berlegungen ins
Zentrum seiner architektonischen Arbeit. Seine Konzeption von Architektur als "landscapes of
ecological shelter" kann als posttechnologisch bezeichnet werden. Als Designer entwickelten A.
und Piretti zwei international beachtete neue Typen von Bro-Inneneinrichtungen (Vertebra, 1976
und Dorsal, 1980) sowie verkehrstechnische Beleuchtungssysteme (Logotec, 1980 und Oseris,
1981).
Allgemeines Knstlerlexikon (AKL)
Publikationen

Shigeru Ban
E. Ambasz, S. Ban
Princeton Architectural Press; Princeton (USA); 2000

La piazza dello Houston Center, Houston: immagine metaforica della

citt | Houston Center Plaza., Houston: metaphoric image of the city
in: Lotus International, 1983,39
E. Ambasz
S. 65 - 69

Luis Barragn: the Tamayo Museum celebrates one of architecture's

unsung heroes
in: House & Garden, 2/1986
E. Ambasz
S. 18 - 19,28

Tadao Ando: unbuilt projects [1975-1991- special feature]

in: Space design, 6/1992,333
T. Ando, E. Ambasz, K. Matsuba, Y. Tominaga, A. Kitagawara, T. Ito
S. 5 - 146

Melodie di cartone: Shigheru Ban's cardboard architecture

in: L'Arca, 1992,65
E. Ambasz
S. 76 - 83

Democratic monument: Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart

in: The Architectural Review, 1984,1054
A. H. Colquhoun, R. Banham, E. Ambasz, J. O. Bohigas Guardiola, W. J.
R. Curtis
S. 19 - 47

Plaza Mayor, Salamanca

in: Architectural Design, 1-2/1984
E. Ambasz
S. 44 - 45

Beyond metaphor, before form

in: Design quarterly, 1982,118-119
E. Ambasz
S. 4 - 11

Houston Center Plaza

in: Architectural Design, 1-2/1984
E. Ambasz
S. 46 - 47

San Antonio Botanical Conservatory, Texas

in: Architectural Design, 3-4/1988
E. Ambasz
S. 46 - 47

Fabula rasa: una casa sotto terra Cordoba | Underground home in

Cordoba
in: L'Arca, 1987,10
E. Ambasz
S. 12 - 15

Carlo Scarpa
in: Progressive Architecture, 5/1981
G. Pietropoli, G. Ranalli, R. Miller, N. Miller, E. Ambasz
 S. 117 137

Siviglia si filette nel mondo | Seville reflects the world

in: L'Arca, 1987,8
E. Ambasz
S. 40 47

Salamanca: la Plaza Mayor: un giardino nella citt, una citt nel giardino
| Salamanca: the Plaza Mayor: a garden in the city, a city in the garden
in: Lotus International, 1983,39
E. Ambasz
S. 62 - 64

Frammenti per un "credo" | Fragments for a "credo"

in: L'Archittetura, cronache e storia, 11/1991,433
E. Ambasz
S. 889 - 905

Emilio Ambasz
in: ON Diseo, 1991,128
E. Ambasz
S. 102 - 171

Fabula rasa
in: Via, 1984,7
E. Ambasz
S. 86 - 87

A selection from Working Fables: a Collection of Design Tales for

Skeptic Children
in: Oppositions, 1974,4
E. Ambasz
S. 65 74

For sale: Advanced design, tested and ready to run

in: Design, 1977,346
E. Ambasz
S. 50 53

Casa Francisco Gilardi, Mexico City; architects: Luis Barragn and Ral
Ferrera
in: Progressive Architecture, 9/1980
E. Ambasz
S. 138 141

Carrelli elevatori a Wall Street - planning the flexible office interior

in: L'Arca, 1987,3
E. Ambasz
S. 84 87

Milano, 1920-1940
in: Skyline, 1982
E. Ambasz, R. A. Etlin
S. 18 23

Le follie di Emilio: l'uomo un'isola | Emilio's folly: man is an island

in: L'Arca, 1987,10
 E. Ambasz
S. 22 23

location: Fukuoka, Japan

client: Dai-ichi Seimei
Insurance
cost: $380.0M
area: 1,000,000 sq ft

Fukuoka, Japan, was in need of a new government

office building and the only available site was a large
two-block park that also happened to be the last
remaining green space in the city center. Ambasz was
awarded the commission for successfully achieving
reconciliation between these two opposing aims:
maintaining the green space of the existing park while
providing the city of Fukuoka with a multi-use,
symbolically decisive building. Under the building's
fourteen one-story terraces lie more than one million
square feet of space, containing an exhibition hall,
museum, 2000-seat proscenium theater, conference
facilities, 600,000 square feet of government and
private offices, as well as large underground parking
and retail spaces.