Who: Emery
Roth was an American architect who designed many definitive Manhattan hotels
and apartment buildings of the 1920s and 1930s, incorporating Beaux-Arts and
Art Deco details.
What: From
glamorous apartment buildings along Central Park West to iconic office towers
along Park Avenue, many of New York’s best known architectural icons can be
traced to the firm of Emery Roth (later Emery Roth & Sons).
Where: The firm’s work
includes the Pan Am Building (1963), the World Trade Center (1966 – 1973) and
the Citycorp Center (1977), as well as several Beaux Arts and Art Deco style
apartments along Central Park West and Park Avenue.
When: In the 1950s and
1960s, Emery Roth & Sons was the most influential architectural firm in New
York. The firm’s work on several
office buildings featured curtain wall facades, which would become an
ubiquitous feature of the city, substantially changed the appearance of Midtown
and Lower Manhattan. From the
1960s through the 1980s the firm expanded and diversified, but ceased
operation in 1996 due to financial difficulties.
Why: Roth
was, said his biographer Steven Ruttenbaum, "a master who could combine
eclectic architectural elements into romantic compositions of dignity and
grace."
Images via
NYC-architecture.com.
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