ANTOINE PREDOCK FAIA
SMITHSONIAN COOPER-HEWITT, NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM'S LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing the work of an individual
who has made a long-term contribution to the practice of design, is awarded
to Antoine Predock, principal of Antoine Predock Architect since 1967.
Based in Albuquerque, N.M., Predock maintains studios in Los Angeles and
Taiwan and lectures and exhibits his work worldwide. Living for 53 years
in the landscape of the American West, Predock designs expansive spaces
that seamlessly weave the present with the past. He has been recognized
for his unique ability to design highly contextual works that respond
to their environment. Major projects have included the San Diego Padres
Ballpark; Austin City Hall in Texas; Tacoma Art Museum in Tacoma, Wash.;
Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs,
N.Y.; the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg; the Las Vegas
Central Library and Discovery Museum; the Museum of Science and Industry
in Tampa, Fla.; the Nelson Fine Arts Center at Arizona State University
in Tempe; the National Palace Museum in Taiwan; and buildings for Stanford
University (California) and Rice University (Texas). Predock was a 2005
National Design Award finalist in the architecture design category.
(This press release comes from the Cooper-Hewitt)
