About:

Former dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, James Polshek received his undergraduate degree from Case Western Reserve University and his master of architecture degree from Yale. A Fulbright Scholar, he founded his firm in 1963. In addition to designing new buildings such as the Clinton Presidential Center in Arkansas and the Flushing branch of the Queensborough Public Library, the firm has done extensive work in the renovation and expansion of public buildings, including Carnegie Hall and the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. Polshek believes that architects have some measure of social responsibility and "should serve people instead of egos." (Source: New York Times 1/22/01)

Books:

"James Stewart Polshek on Louis Kahn" in Architects on architects. McGraw-Hill, 2002. NA2560 .G74 2002.

James Stewart Polshek: context and responsibility: buildings and projects, 1957-1987.  Rizzoli, 1988. On Reserve.

Polshek Partnership Architects. Princeton Architectural Press, 2005. On Reserve.
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Books listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.
 

Articles (Selected from 1993 - 2004):

"A new entrance by the Polshek Partnership opens the treasures of the Brooklyn Museum to a new generation of viewers." Russell, James S.,
Architectural record, vol. 192, no. 10, pp. 116-[123], Oct 2004

"Home away from home: what's behind the new National Museum of the American Indian."  Preservation: the magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, vol. 56, no. 5, pp. 28-33, Sept 2004.

"Jim Polshek on "the ethical architec.t"  Sokol, David., Oculus, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 7, Dec 2001
    Note: Report on a talk given by James Stewart Polshek in Oct. 2001 at the New York School of Interior Design on "the ethics and morality of the practice of architecture." (Source: Avery Index)

"Polshek & Partners: a firm and its universe [interview]." Polshek, James Stewart,  Ivy, Robert.  Architectural record, vol. 188, no. 8, pp. 88-[89], 91, 93, [95], Aug 2000.

"Virtual space tourism." Hansson, Anders,  Architectural design, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. [26]-29, Mar 2000.

"New York Times printing plant, Flushing, New York." Schmertz, Mildred F., Architectural record, vol. 186, no. 5, pp. 202-207, May 1998.

s"Grove of academe."  Slessor, Catherine., Architectural review, vol. 202, no. 1206, pp. 56-59, Aug 1997
    Note: Addition to Jerome Greene Hall, the Columbia University Law School. (Source: Avery Index)

"James Stewart Polshek: Center for the Arts Theater at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA 1985-1993."A + U: architecture and urbanism, no. 11(302), pp. 34-[45], Nov 1995.

"Citizen architect."  Bartolucci, Marisa., Metropolis, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. [62]-67, 74-77, 79, June 1995.
    Note: Profile of James Stewart Polshek and Partners and their commitment to socially responsible architecture.

"Polshek: United States Embassy Chancery, Muscat, Oman." Architectural design, vol. 65, no. 3-4, pp. 46-49, Mar 1995.
Architects: James Stewart Polshek & Partners.

"A slim tower packages multiple functions."  Chia, Katherine Kai-Sun., Architectural record, vol. 182, no. 7, pp. 36-41, July 1994
    Note: The Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine and a residential tower for nurses are housed in a 23-story tower addition to the New York University Medical Center.

"Adapted for television."  Dorris, Virginia Kent., Architecture, vol. 82, no. 11, pp. 131-[137], Nov 1993.
    Note: The 1927. Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway in Manhattan was turned into a TV studio for the David Letterman Show. Renovation architects: James Stewart Polshek and Partners. Original architect:
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Articles listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.
 

Web Sites:

Polshek Architects Partnership. www.polshek.com/
The site offers extensive visuals on the firm's many projects.
 
 

Judy Connorton
January 2006