• Source: David Rockwell

      • David Rockwell (born July 21, 1956) is an American architect and designer. He is the founder and president of Rockwell Group, a 250-person cross-disciplinary architecture and design practice based in New York City with satellite offices in Madrid and Los Angeles.


      Early life and education


      Rockwell grew up in a theater family. His mother, a vaudeville dancer and choreographer, often cast him in community repertory productions. When he was 12, David's family moved from Deal, New Jersey to Guadalajara, Mexico. Rockwell trained in architecture at Syracuse University and the Architectural Association in London.


      Career


      Rockwell founded Rockwell Group in 1984.
      Rockwell currently serves as Chair Emeritus of the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) and as a board member of Citymeals-on-Wheels, and New York Restoration Project. Rockwell also conceived and developed Imagination Playground pro-bono, a play space designed to encourage children to work together to create their own worlds of play. After five years of research on children and play, the first site-specific location opened in collaboration with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation at Burling Slip in Manhattan in 2010. Rockwell Group developed portable, scalable models that can transform smaller, unused areas into play spaces. Through the U.N.I.C.E.F. P.L.A.Y. Project, in partnership with Disney, the blocks have been distributed to more than 13,000 children in Bangladesh and Haiti.


      Awards


      Rockwell's honors include the 2016 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design for the musical She Loves Me and six Tony Award nominations for Best Scenic Design, the AIA New York Chapter President's Award; the 2008 National Design Award by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum for outstanding achievement in Interior Design; the 2009 Pratt Legends Award; the Presidential Design Award for his renovation of the Grand Central Terminal; induction into the James Beard Foundation Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America and Interior Design magazine's Hall of Fame; inclusion in Architectural Digest's AD 100; and the 2016 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical for She Loves Me and five Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical. Rockwell Group was named by Fast Company in 2008, 2014 and 2015 as one of the most innovative design practices in their annual World's 50 Most Innovative Companies issue. Rockwell is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. World Winners Prix Versailles 2018


      Select design projects


      Chefs Club by Food & Wine, New York
      Gordon Ramsay's Maze (London)
      Maialino, New York
      Nobu restaurants worldwide, including New York, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, Doha, Melbourne and Dubai
      Aloft hotels (Starwood Hotels & Resorts)
      Andaz Maui at Wailea, Hawaii
      The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
      Nobu Hotel Caesars Palace, Las Vegas
      Nobu Hotel Eden Roc Miami Beach
      W Hotels New York, Union Square, Vieques, Paris, Singapore, and Madrid
      Hall of Fragments, the entrance installation to the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale
      Walt Disney Family Museum
      The Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta
      Elinor Bunin-Munroe Film Center, Lincoln Center
      The Shed (Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Leader Architect, and Rockwell Group, Collaborating Architect)
      15 Hudson Yards in collaboration with Diller Scofidio + Renfro
      TED Theater, Vancouver
      Dolby Theatre, home of the Academy Awards ceremony (Los Angeles)
      The Marketplace at the JetBlue terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport
      NeueHouse, New York, Los Angeles
      Shinola
      Imagination Playground
      Moxy Chelsea
      The New York EDITION
      Rockwell Unscripted for Knoll
      Union Square Cafe
      Sky (skyscraper)
      NEMA (Chicago)
      Hayes Theater
      The Perelman, New York City (Restaurant and Lobby Interior Architect)
      93rd Oscars, Production Design
      Hopkins Student Center for Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
      Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle
      DineOut NYC pro bono initiative


      Set design


      Hairspray
      The Rocky Horror Show
      Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
      All Shook Up
      Legally Blonde
      Team America: World Police (2004, film)
      The 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009)
      The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (2010)
      The Normal Heart
      Catch Me If You Can
      Harvey
      Kinky Boots
      Lucky Guy
      You Can't Take It with You
      Side Show
      On the Twentieth Century
      She Loves Me
      On Your Feet!
      Falsettos
      Lobby Hero
      Pretty Woman
      Tootsie
      93rd Oscars (2021)


      Books


      Pleasure: The Architecture and Design of Rockwell Group, Universe, a division of Rizzoli Books, 2002.
      David Rockwell with Bruce Mau, Spectacle, Phaidon Press, 2006. Examines the history and public fascination with larger-than-life man-made events.
      What If...?: The Architecture and Design of David Rockwell, Metropolis Books, 2014.
      Drama by David Rockwell, Phaidon, May 2021


      See also


      List of Syracuse University People
      InterContinental Hong Kong


      References




      External links


      David Rockwell at IMDb
      Rockwell Group website
      Rockwell Group Facebook
      Rockwell Group Instagram
      David Rockwell at TED

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