Ten houses: gwathmey siegel

The Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington in Seattle needed transforming as it was overshadowed by large buildings that surrounded it. The award-winning Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, known for its restoration to Frank Lloyd Wright?s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, was commissioned to intervene. The firm was able to integrate site, circulation, building and context that beautifully reconciles the site with the rest of the campus. Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects is based in New York City. Originally from Buenos Aires, Oscar Riera Ojeda is an editor and designer who practices in the United States, South America and Europe from his office in Boston. He is vice-director of the Spanish-Argentinian magazine Casas International, and is the creator of several series of architectural publications for Rockport Publishers in addition the Single Building series, including Ten Houses, and Contemporary World Architects. Other architectural publications include the New American series for the Whitney Library of Design, as well as several monographs oh the work of renowned architects.