Antoine Predock
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| Antoine Predock | |
 San Diego's baseball stadium Petco Park |
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| Name | Antoine Predock |
| Nationality | American |
| Birth place | Lebanon, Missouri, United States |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Work | |
| Buildings | Petco Park |
| Design | Angular, brutalist-type building designs |
| Awards | Rome Prize (1985), AIA Gold Medal (2006) |
Antoine Predock (born 1936 in Lebanon, Missouri) is an American architect based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Antoine Predock is the Principal of Antoine Predock Architect PC. The studio was established in 1967. Predock attended the University of New Mexico and later received his Bachelor of Architecture from Columbia University. He is a licensed architect in many states as well as a registered landscape architect and interior designer.
Predock first gained national attention with the La Luz community in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Nelson Fine Arts Center at Arizona State University was his first nationally won design competition. Mr. Predock has built from his desert beginnings and completed work ranging from the Turtle Creek House, built in 1993 for bird enthusiasts along a prehistoric trail in Texas and the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College to a new Ballpark for the San Diego Padres that reinvents the concept of a ballpark as a “garden” rather than solely a sports complex. His influence extends to international sites with the National Palace Museum Southern Branch in Southern Taiwan and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba, both are currently in design phases.
In 1985, Antoine Predock was awarded the Rome Prize and in 2006 he was honored with the American Institute of Architects highest award, the AIA Gold Medal.
While Antoine Predock's design has been highly influenced by his connection to New Mexico and the landscape, he brings a sense of force and interaction in his analysis and conceptual artistry. Focusing on such subjects as the individual in a building as a spiritual interaction, the body in motion, the essence of humans, technology, and the natural environment, he relays a strong sense of contextual appropriateness to his design with careful interpretation of regional identity.[citation needed]
[edit] Notable Projects
- 1970 - La Luz Community, New Mexico
- 1971 - University of New Mexico Law School building
- 1979 - Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico
- 1982 - Rio Grande Nature Center, New Mexico
- 1989 - Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University, Arizona
- 1990 - Las Vegas Central Library + Children’s Museum, Nevada
- 1991 - Mandell Weiss Forum, University of California, San Diego
- 1991 - Venice Beach House, California
- 1992 - Classroom + Laboratory Building, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona)
- 1992 - Hotel Santa Fe at Euro Disney, France
- 1993 - American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
- 1993 - Turtle Creek House, Texas
- 1994 - Mesa Public Library, New Mexico
- 1994 - Social Sciences + Humanities Building, University of California, Davis
- 1994 - Thousand Oaks Civic Center, California
- 1995 - Museum of Science & Industry, Florida
- 1995 - Ventana Vista School, Arizona
- 1996 - Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University, California
- 1996 - Music Conservatory, University of California, Santa Cruz
- 1997 - Arizona Science Center, Arizona
- 1997 - Center for Nanoscale Science + Technology, Rice University, Texas
- 1997 - Dance Studio, University of California, San Diego
- 1997 - Spencer Theater, New Mexico
- 2000 - McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota
- 2000 - Tang Teaching Museum - Skidmore College, New York
- 2003 - Robert Hoag Rawlings Public Library, Colorado
- 2003 - Tacoma Art Museum, Washington
- 2004 - Austin City Hall, Texas
- 2004 - Flint RiverQuarium, Georgia
- 2004 - Performing Arts + Learning Center, Pima Community College, Arizona
- 2004 - San Diego Padres Petco Park, California
- 2006 - Discovery Canyon Academy School, Colorado
- 2006 - Highlands Pond House
- 2006 - Recreation Facility, Ohio State University, Ohio
- 2007 - George Pearl Hall, School of Architecture, University of New Mexico
- 2007 - Indian Community School, Franklin, Wisconsin
- 2008 - Doudna Fine Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University
- In Progress - Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Manitoba
- In Progress - Cornerstone Arts Center, Colorado College
- In Progress - Inn at the French Laundry, California
- In Progress - National Palace Museum Southern Branch, Taiwan
- In Progress - Trinity River Interpretive Center, Texas
[edit] External links
- San Diego Union-Tribune article
- Illustrated page on the Nelson Fine Arts Center in Tempe Arizona
- Antoine Predock's web page
- Modern Home in Dallas, Texas Designed by Architect Antoine Predock
- Indian Community School, Franklin, Wisconsin
- Predock's Architecture School, by Susan Smith, ArchitectureWeek No. 408, 2008.1210, pD1-1.
