George Ranalli

George Ranalli, FAIA
Born George Joseph Ranalli
1946
New York
Nationality United States
Alma mater B.Arch., Pratt, 1972
M. Arch., Harvard, 1974,
M.A.
Occupation Architect
Website georgeranalli.com
georgeranallidesigns.com
Practice architect, academic

George Joseph Ranalli (born 1946) [1] is an American academic and modernist architect [2] based in New York City, and a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.[3]

Life and education

A native of The Bronx in New York City, Ranalli was the son of a milkman [4] and attended Mount St. Michael Academy high school.[5] He was inspired to become an architect at the age of about 13 when he saw the then-unfinished Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.[6] He graduated from Mount Saint Michael Academy in The Bronx in 1964. From 1967 to 1968 he attended the New York Institute of Technology, and then the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he received a Bachelor of Architecture in 1972.[7] Thereafter, he attended Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts, earning a Master of Architecture in 1974. After his graduation, Ranalli traveled on a research grant in Europe.[6]

Career

Ranalli opened an architecture practice in New York in 1977.[8] His projects have included:

Professional recognition

Ranalli has received professional awards from the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in 2015;[19] the New York Society of Architects,[20] the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Alumni Association,[21] the New York Foundation for the Arts,[22] and the Architectural League of New York.[23][24] Between 1969 to 2015, he received project awards from the Stanford White Award, The Institute of Classical Architecture and Art [25] and awards by the Society of American Registered Architects;[26][27] the American Institute of Architects;[28][29][30][31] and Progressive Architecture;.[32]

In 1985, New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger credited Ranalli as one of the "better younger architects" working in the Modernist idiom.[33] In 1991, Michael Sorkin called him "a creator and preserver of worlds, a precisionist" who views architecture with compassion and craft with respect.[34]

Selected works

Museum and gallery exhibitions, selected

Ranalli has shown work at the Library of Congress,[35] Metropolitan Museum of Art,[36] Whitney Museum of American Art,[37] MoMA, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum,[38] Museum of Art & Design, (formerly the American Craft Museum), New York, N.Y.[39] Skyscraper Museum,[40] Architectural League of New York,[41] American Institute of Architects NY,[42] Sperone Westwater Fisher,[43] Artists Space Gallery,[44] and The Drawing Center in New York City.[45] Ranalli work has been included in exhibitions at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida [46] Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, TN,[47] Denver Art Museum,[48] Indianapolis Museum of Art, Yale University School of Architecture Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut [49] and the The Art Institute of Chicago [50] Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, 333 Gallery,[51] and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,[52] as well as Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles, CA.[53]

International exhibitions include Centre Pompidou, Paris,[54] Canadian Centre for Architecture,[55] Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinky, Finland,[56] XVII Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy, and Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany.

Selected publications

Curated exhibitions

Yale School of Architecture Art and Architecture Gallery
Spitzer School of Architecture of City College of New York

Museum installation design

  • US Design 1975–2000, February – May 2002
Denver Art Museum
  • Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History, May 6 – October 31, 1999
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Main Galleries, Ranalli, G.: installation design/ study models[79]
  • Carlo Scarpa: Intervening with History, May – October 1999
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  • Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs For An American Landscape, 1922–1932, June – September 1997
Whitney Museum of Art, 2nd floor[80]
  • Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs For An American Landscape, 1922–1932, June – September 1996
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

Industrial design

  • Valentine 2 Chair, designer: George Ranalli, Manufacturer: Environments Plus, Inc. (1988)
Medium: SURELL™ (by Formica) solid surfacing material
Dimensions: height: 32 1⁄4 inches (81.9 cm); width: 20 inches (50.8 cm); depth: 23 1⁄2 inches (59.7 cm)
Seat: height: 17 3⁄4 inches (45.1 cm)
Classification: Furniture-Wood
Accn N° 1990.306
Gift of Formica Corporation, 1990
Permanent collection of 20th Century Architecture and Design of The Metropolitan Museum of Art[81]
  • Steel Chair,' designer : George Ranalli, Manufacturer: Al Cooke (1985)
Medium: Sheet steel by Bethlehem Steel and leather
Dimensions: height: 34 1⁄4 inches (87.0 cm); width: 48 inches (121.9 cm); depth: 30 inches (76.2 cm)
Classification: Furniture
Accn N° 1996.165A-E
Gift of Anita Pagliaro and Bill Hayward
Permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum
  • Pendant door handle, designer : George Ranalli , 1991 [82]
Medium: brass
A) push-plate 4 1⁄2 inches (11.4 cm)long.
B0 pull bar 23 1⁄2 inches (59.7 cm)wide.
Classification; Design Arts
Accn N° 1992.509
Gift of George Ranalli, Architect and Junzo Tateno, President, Union Company, 1991;
  • Lock-it door handle, designer: George Ranalli, 1991
Medium: aluminum
A) handle: 7 1⁄4 inches (18.4 cm)long.
B) lock: 1 3⁄4 inches (4.4 cm) diameter
Classification; Design Arts
Denver Art Museum Accn N°. 1992.508 ; Indianapolis Museum of Art Accn 2010.13A-B
Permanent collections of Denver Art Museum, and Indianapolis Museum of Art.[83]

Academic career

Ranalli taught architectural design at Yale University School of Architecture & Environmental Design for 23 years. He was an assistant professor from 1976, William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor from 1988,[84] associate professor with tenure from 1991, and full professor from 1995. From 1987–1999, he was a fellow of Morse College at Yale.[85][86] Ranalli was a visiting professor of design and architectural drawing at the Boston Architectural Center, Rhode Island School of Design,[87] University of Illinois at Chicago, the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies,[88] and Cooper Union.[89][90] In 1999, Ranalli became dean of the school of architecture of City College of New York, which in 2009 was renamed the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture.[91][92] In April 2015, Ranalli went on leave of absence;[93] Gordon A. Gebert was named acting dean.

References

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