birth_date: 1949-01-01 00:00:00
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name: Roger C. Ferri
about: Ferri grew up in Wantagh, L.I. He was trained in classical painting before entering architecture school at the Pratt Institute, where he received his Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1972. He continued to study classical painting, figure drawing and anatomy, primarily at the Art Students League in Manhattan. Ferri also taught freehand drawing for architects at Columbia University and had been a consultant on curriculum to the School of Architecture at the University of Miami, where he also served as a visiting design critic.From 1984 through 1986, he was a vice president and design principal of Welton Becket Associates in New York. During his time there, he designed more than $2 billion in construction, including the Dai-Ichi Hotel in Tok Ferri grew up in Wantagh, L.I. He was trained in classical painting before entering architecture school at the Pratt Institute, where he received his Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1972. He continued to study classical painting, figure drawing and anatomy, primarily at the Art Students League in Manhattan. Ferri also taught freehand drawing for architects at Columbia University and had been a consultant on curriculum to the School of Architecture at the University of Miami, where he also served as a visiting design critic.From 1984 through 1986, he was a vice president and design principal of Welton Becket Associates in New York. During his time there, he designed more than $2 billion in construction, including the Dai-Ichi Hotel in Tokyo, mixed-use developments, housing and office buildings. In 1987, he opened his own firm, Roger Ferri Architect, and returned largely to small-scale work, designing a variety of houses and apartments.Ferri was best known for his theories about the integration of nature and architecture. One of his most ambitious schemes, widely published but never built, was a proposal for a 44-story glass skyscraper in Manhattan that included a series of terraces and setbacks with huge gardens and rocky landscapes. A house he built on Fire Island sits on a trellis base and was designed to seem as though the house itself were a balcony overlooking the ocean.In 1979, Ferri was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art to present a visionary scheme for a pedestrian city as an afterword to "Transformations in Modern Architecture," a large exhibition tracing 20 years of contemporary design trends. Ferri's design, titled "A Proposal for an American Architecture and Urbanism in the Post Petroleum Age," included a dome surrounded by a series of "Hypostyle Courtyards" that were halls in the shape of giant lilies 42 feet high. ...more
death_date: 1991-11-20 00:00:00