CultureNOW - American Folk Art Museum: Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects and Billie Tsien

American Folk Art Museum
Recent Architecture: Museum

Architects
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, Billie Tsien

Dates

Constructed, 2001

Awards

AIANY Chapter Design Award 2002
World Architecture 2002
AIA National Honor Award 2003
Built by Women 2015

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Tod Williams and Billie Tsien discuss their design of the American Folk Art Museum

Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects Tod Williams received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts and Architecture from Princeton University. Billie Tsien received her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from Yale and her Master in Architecture from UCLA. They started working together in 1977 and in 1986 they founded Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects in New York City. They are known for residential and institutional projects which pay careful attention to context, detail and the subtleties of materials. Their compelling body of work includes The American Folk Art Museum in New York, Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California, Cranbrook Natatorium in Michigan, Skirkanich Hall at the University of Pennsylvania, CV Starr East Asian Library at the University of California at Berkeley, the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, and the Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College. Current projects include the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, a performing and visual arts center at the University of Chicago, the Asia Society Center in Hong Kong, an information technology campus in Mumbai, India, two new skating rinks in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, a dormitory at Haverford College, and a bioengineering laboratory at Princeton University. Their buildings have been repeatedly honored by the American Institute of Architects and they have received numerous awards including the Brunner Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Medal of Honor from the New York City AIA and the President’s Medal from the Architectural League of New York. Both architects were elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In addition, their projects have been published extensively both in the United States and overseas. A monograph enti tled Work/Life was released in the fall of 2000 by Monacelli Press. Williams and Tsien also maintain teaching careers parallel to their practice.

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The American Folk Art Museum is an idiosyncratic home for idiosyncratic art.

A 40 foot wide, 100 foot long site on 53rd street is home for the American Folk Art Museum. Completed in 2001, the eight level museums is the first new museum built in New York in over three decades.

Four upper floors are devoted to gallery space for permanent and temporary exhibitions. A small café overlooks 53rd street from the mezzanine and provides a view of the two-story atrium. To accommodate the program...

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Location

45 W 53th St
New York, NY 10019
United States

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