From the archive: When Tata Starchitect

As part of our work Celebration 25. AnniversaryWe reproduce formative magazine stories before our website has been launched. This story has previously appeared in the show of work / August 2004. Years.

“So tell me about your relationship with your father” usually does not count as a small conversation. But here in the picture of the famous architects, why we could be interested as playgrounds and dragged into an endless architectural pilgrimage, they gained an increased psychological relationship with architecture – almost instinctive meaning for the way in which it commands our experience.

Nathaniel Kahn recalls in his film nominated for Oscar My architect It’s his father, Louis Kahn“Don’t leave physical evidence that he was ever in our house, even the imagination didn’t ever get in the closet.” The same cannot be said for this group; The houses that adults often wrote the work of their fathers. And yet everyone certainly treated Nathan’s quest to better understand his father – and perhaps only through his father architecture. Although none of them are now architects (key criteria for this recognition of accidental sampling), all recognizes architecture as consistent subtitles in their life.

And yet that does not mean that their homes are Genteel Modern Showplaces set by hand Barcelona chairs and failed project models. In contrast, this group shows a low-grade discomfort with the spaces of its life, calculated in introspective in their domestic environment. After immersed from the early age in the Bestinian architectural search, it is considered that it is a difficult habit of interrupting. As a result, portraits that accompany the catches of their subjects in which they are-in the middle of moves, renovations and domestic Saturdays. What materializes a different kind of modernism, not furniture and lines, but also of a personality.

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Nicholas Stern says Central Apartment Central Park West He grew up in never managed to catch the notice of visitors, even teenagers on the way to the kitchen to steal a beer. Renovation from 1967. year from the father, Roberta am Stern, Dean’s school architecture and eminent historical architect, was an early term postmodernism, and then defined. “Explores classicism elements,” Nicholas says, “but deconstructed,” with playful shifts in space and plan. His parents divorced, but his mother – who long ago married another architect – he still lives there, and her lessons remain with Nicholas. “I learned my architecture theory from my father, and I agree with it, whether through osmosis or genetics or simply an ordinary good taste.”

The work approaches the end of the renovation of the city house, of course, his father – on a curved street in Greenwich village for Nikole and his wife, Courtney interior designer in the architectural company with an architectural company. Deborah Berke. Nicholas, which is vice president in Takona BuildersThe ultimate performer, never even thought that he hired any other architects, “not in my wildest dreams.” While the project is primarily restoration – “I can only imagine) just to imagine New York Post: Historical Sustainment Robert am Stern CRERS 1847 Greek Son, Building, “Nicholas was joking – who did not banned several gestures, like running stairs in the double-level dining room. He just wants Bob to be Bob.”

Nicholas adds: “I am one of my father’s greatest fans – if not the biggest.” He even further monitored in the footsteps, going to enroll in Yala architecture school, although the years before his father became a dean. It only lasted two weeks.

While she was three years old, Julia Eisenman was He was trained exclusively in white, to insist his father, Peter Eisenman, theorist / leader of the neocorbusian architectural clique “New York Pet”. And that was not just her – all the walls of their riverside driving in New York were white. “At school, girls had Laura Ashley background and plush carpetAnd I was like: ‘I want the background of Laura Ashley!’ And my father said, ‘No. No. I’ll give you one wall most in my bedroom with color on it. ‘So I have one bluish purple wall. Such was angry, because I was like, “Why can’t we just paint the whole room?”

While it was the years before the summer spent as a pair Richard MeierChildren, she realized why, “I knew it was crazy, but I just knew it really happened. I just knew it was really happening. I just knew it was actually.

It is now a film producer in Hollywood with aspirations to direct (architect in it, says), Julia has no negatives about the demining of the story. “If it can’t be filed, you shouldn’t give me, because he knows I’m just provocative as he.”

And he still fights her modernist demons. She and her husband, Andy Behrman, author Electrobi: Memoir ManiaShe recently moved to the house in 1959. in Hollywood hills. But at first she resisted her. “It wasn’t comfortable!” He says. “But my growing up wasn’t pleasant or comfortable. Obviously, a huge part of me was attracted to that.”

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Oren Safdie grew up in habitat, revolutionary The apartment built his father, architect Moshe SafdieDesigned on the bank of St. Lawrence rivers in Montreal for Expo 67. Its system for their bolted modules was first cried of orren and as the most favorable to the rota week. “I knew every node and the cardboard,” he says. After his father moved, 13-year-old Oren became a guide for touring dignitaries.

Habitat, Oren realizesIt still affects its choice of homes: the shoe shop in New York lived for 10 years, had a terrace overlooking Hudson, like Habitat’s terrace overlooking St. Lawrence. Currently, he and his wife, MJ Kang, Dramatic and actor, found temporary apartments of the Pension 10-Acre Malibu Avocado plantation. “She always returns to the water and the garden,” he says.

Architecture, both directly and circular ways, remains part of his life. Oren finished his master’s degree in Colombia, but halfway had epiphania: one summer in his father’s apartment with a wall in Jerusalem, while working on the father about father and son architects Eliel Eero Saarinen (“Probably said”), he rolled on the back of the note and started writing. The rough novel that resulted in becoming the basis for his Burd career as a dramatic. Despite that, he did not remain completely far from architecture. His recent game, Private jokes, Public placesProduced this winter in New York, it was set up in the final examination of the architecture student.

Father Arica Stoller, Architectural photographer Ezra StollerShe did so much to expand modern architecture like any architect. For many people, Its icons black and white photos Since the terminals, the Seagram building, and the Museum of Guggenheim, are more strongly icons from the buildings themselves. But he also also distributed modern architecture to his family, designing an open plan house in the unorthodox subdict in Westchester in New York, where Erica grew up. At home, his process was radio vice versa: if he caught an architecture in the two dimensions at work, at home tried to remind the photo of the photograph at home. “Everything was just nice in the center of attention, but the light would always shove in your eyes,” she says.

Although Erica never asked for reflectors, she still insists that the place where the walls hit the floor – a key detail in making clarity on the photographic space. And although her husband, William Ketchum, is the leading authority of American people’s art and antiques, it maintains certain minimalism. “I’m pretty annoyed when the windows have things to them,” she says.

At work, clean lines come easier – surrounded by modern architecture, or at least her visual display. In the last 20 years, Erica launched an ester, a photo agency was founded by a father and turned it into a leading name in architectural photography. But her attitude on the relationships of architecture with his paintings is strikingly from her father-sincere in her dishonesty. “She insisted that the photo was the only sincere presentation and that it was a conversation about architecture just a lot of hooey,” she says. “I, on the other hand, don’t think the photo is honest at all. All about it is manipulative.”