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Françoise Astorg Bollack
Françoise Astorg Bollack
Born	1944 Paris, France
Occupations	Architect Educator Preservationist Writer on architecture and preservation
Parent(s)	Marcel Astorg, architect and painter and Raymonde Astorg, née Bisch

Françoise Astorg Bollack's activities bridge the fields of education, criticism and architectural practice. Her research focusses on the creative possibilities that arise from designing in existing and/or historic buildings.  Her method is based on the analysis of successful (or simply intriguing) built work.

Education

• Diplôme d’Architecte from the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris, 1969
• Studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts (ENSBA) with George Candilis
• Worked in Paris for Marot-Tremblot Associés and for Marcel Astorg Architecte.
• Worked in Mexico City for the architect Juan Sordo Madaleno, 1970

Life and work in New York City: 1970-present

1970-1981

Worked as a designer for:

• I.M. Pei & Partners
• Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
• Mitchell Giurgola
• Ulrich Franzen as the Design Coordinator for the Philip Morris Headquarters at 120 Park Avenue, from programming to the building’s completion.

1981– PRESENT

Principal of Françoise Bollack Architects

• 1981: founded Françoise Bollack Architects, at the time, one of very few architectural firms founded and headed exclusively by a woman
• 1985 > Associate Professor in the Preservation Program of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University.

Architecture Works

• Restoration and additions at the New York State Capitol in Albany (Assembly Chamber, Assembly Parlor, Speaker’s Office & Conference room, etc.)
• Adaptive reuse of a 19th-century school in Greenwich Village for the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center
• Chesterwood Museum Shop and Visitor Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts
• Numerous restoration and new designs for historic apartment building lobbies & renovation/restoration of high-end apartments in New York City.

Awards & Honors

For work on LGBT Center, in New York City:

• Village Award from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
• Certificate of Merit from the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
• Lucy Moses Award from the New York Landmarks Conservancy
• Citation of Merit from the Victorian Society of America
• Certificate of Merit from the Municipal Art Society: read article here

For work in the New York State Capitol in Albany:

• Award of Merit from the American Institute of Architects in 2003.

read an article here

For the publication of Old Buildings New Forms: New Directions in Architectural Transformations

• Historic Preservation Book Prize, 2014, awarded by The University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation

Her drawings are in Avery Library’s Drawings and Archives collection.

Public Service

• Served at the City and State levels of the American Institute of Architects

• Served on the boards of Landmark West!, of the Architectural League and of Neighborhood Preservation Center

• President of the Historic Districts Council, a citywide non-profit preservation organization, from 2011 to 2014, initiating a Preservation Design Award program, the popular “6 To Celebrate” program, publishing District Lines and heading a task force to the historic buildings in East Midtown Manhattan.
• Françoise Bollack Architects is a member of the Professional Circle of the New York Landmarks Conservancy.

Books & Articles

• 1988: Everyday Masterpieces – Memory and Modernity: A Study of an International Vernacular Between the Two World Wars

Co-authored with Joselita Raspi-Serra, Tom Killian, with Paolo Mascilli-Migliorini & Nicoletta Zanni, Modena Italy, Edizioni Panini, 1988

• 1995: Ely Jacques Kahn – New York Architect
• 2005: Bunshaft House Threatened

published in DoCoMoMo, National News, summer 2005; co-authored with Tom Killian, New York: Acanthus Press, 1995

• 2012: Françoise Bollack Architects: Public Work, Françoise Bollack Architects, LULU Press, 2012
• 2013: Françoise Bollack Architects: Private Work, Françoise Bollack Architects, LULU Press, 2013
• 2013: Old Buildings – New Forms: New Directions in Architectural Transformations, The Monacelli Press, 2013 (received the Historic Preservation Book Prize from the University of Mary Washington in 2014)
• 2014: Preservation Under Attack! The Citizens and City Hall: A New Day? Published in the Historical Districts Council’s District Lines, Spring 2014
• 2014: AIA NY Oculus Book Review Of Old Building New Forms
• 2015: Defining Appropriateness published in Saving Place: 50 Years of New York City Landmarks by the Museum of the City of New York and the Monacelli Press on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Landmarks Law. 
• 2015: Four Minutes On... Architectural Transformations With Françoise Astorg Bollack, AIA
• 2016: Old Cities – New Forms: A Letter from New York published in l’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui #AA412 as Tissu Ancien – Formes Nouvelles 
• 2016: Reflections on the Art of the Incomplete: Old Buildings – New Forms, published in AREA
• 2017: Competitions 1968-2000, Francoise Astorg Bollack, Tom Killian, LULU Press, 2017
• AIA NY Oculus Book Review of Old Building New Forms

Lectures & Interviews

Françoise Astorg Bollack AIA book talk 2014

About Preservation

• Oculus Book Talk: Françoise Astorg Bollack, Old Buildings New Forms: New Directions in Architectural Transformations, NYCxDESIGN 2014, AIA New York, May 12, 2014

• Old Buildings | New Forms, Lecture at LSU College of Art and Design, February 23, 2015

• Old Buildings | New Forms, Lecture At Tulane School Of Architecture February 25, 2015

• Old Buildings – New Forms, Lecture at the Bedford Historical Society, February 2014

• Inquiry HP Lecture: Old Buildings New Forms, Nov. 20, 2013
• Breathe Deeply - Why Old Buildings Are Green

Lecture on the relationship between sustainability and living in historic buildings for a symposium organized by Landmark West! The Committee to Preserve the Upper West Side

• AIA NY Oculus Podcast Interview, May 30, 2014

• Interview By Susan Kathryn Hefti, in The Preservation Diaries In The Clyde Fitch Report. 

• Letting the Architecture Speak for Itself

Françoise Bollack's And Tom Killian's Interviewed By Fred Bernstein, April 22, 2007

• On CNBC About The Museum Of Modern Art's Exhibit "Tall Buildings".

Interview excerpted and published in BATIWEB, July 2004 read the article here

• Substitute Materials- Faux Or No?

Interview published in District Lines the newsletter of the Historic Districts Council, May 2004. read the article here

• February 19, 2003

History As Prelude: Modern Interventions In Historic Context. The Morgan Library, New York City; respondent 

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  Chesterwood Barn Gallery & Visitor Center
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  Restored facade 208 West 13th Street
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  East vestibule, New York State Capitol
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  Astor Court Lobbies