Peter Chermayeff

Peter Chermayeff LLC

Industry	Architecture
Headquarters	United States
Website	www.peterchermayeff.com

Lisbon Oceanarium

Peter Chermayeff LLC is a Massachusetts based architectural firm which continues the work of Peter Chermayeff, FAIA, and Bobby C. Poole, AIA whose long collaboration, with focus on the design of public aquariums, began in 1975 when Bobby Poole joined Cambridge Seven Associates where Peter Chermayeff had been a founding principal since 1962, together with Paul Dietrich, Terry Rankine, Louis Bakanowsky, Alden Christie, Ivan Chermayeff, and Tom Geismar. Their first project, of which Peter Chermayeff was principal in charge, was the New England Aquarium which opened in 1969, pioneering a new era of urban aquariums. The diverse design work at Cambridge Seven Associates, in much of which Peter Chermayeff played a leading role, or was the principal in charge, such as the 1960’s modernization of [Boston’s Transportation System], now known as the T, the United States Pavilion and Exhibition at Expo ’67, the National Aquarium in Baltimore, the San Antonio Museum of Art, Charles Square, a hotel, retail, housing and office complex in Cambridge, MA, Where’s Boston?, a mixed media celebration and portrait of Boston for the US Bicentennial, the Osaka Aquarium, the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, and the Genoa Aquarium, led to C7A receiving the Firm of the Year award in 1993 from the AIA.

Bobby Poole joined C7A in 1976 to work with Peter Chermayeff on the National Aquarium in Baltimore. He became the Aquarium’s Project Architect, leading the preparation of final design documents, the on-site overview of construction and installation, became a principal in 1986, and further developed his interest in Aquariums working closely with Peter Chermayeff on the aquariums of Osaka, Chattanooga, Genoa, Lisbon, Seward, Alaska, and unbuilt aquariums and rainforest pavilions proposed by Chermayeff while at C7A for Moscow, Hamburg, Bremerhaven and Oberhausen, Germany, and for Tsuruhama, Osaka, Japan.

Peter Chermayeff, with Bobby Poole and Peter Sollogub, left Cambridge Seven Associates in 1998, to concentrate on their shared design interests as a smaller firm, Chermayeff, Sollogub and Poole until 2005, and Chermayeff & Poole until 2009. Peter Chermayeff and Bobby Poole continue their close collaboration under the firm name Peter Chermayeff LLC. Recent completed projects have included the Nivola Museum in Orani, Sardinia, expansion of the National Aquarium in Baltimore, and the expansion of the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, both opened in 2005. Current projects include a proposed Aquarium and Environmental Center for Alexandria Egypt, an Ecotarium in New Songdo, near Seoul, Korea, and the remodeling and expansion of the Virginia Aquarium at Virginia Beach. Peter Chermayeff and Bobby Poole are continuing their focus of decades on public aquariums and related projects that address recreation, learning and conservation of the natural world.

See also

• Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan
• Lisbon Oceanarium
• Tennessee Aquarium
• Aquarium of Genoa
• National Aquarium in Baltimore
• New England Aquarium
• Serge Chermayeff
• Chermayeff & Geismar

External links

• Peter Chermayeff LLC official website
• Time Magazine, “The Age of Aquariums”, by Daniel S. Levy, June 1, 1998 re Oceanarium of Lisbon"
• Harvard Magazine "Ocean in1.5 Million Gallons or Less" by Jonathan Shaw , Jan-Feb, 1999"
• Video interview with SIC Noticias TV channel in Lisbon, Portugal, May 2009-->

References

• New York Times, “Underwater Theater for Briny Stars”, by Marlise Simons, 1998 re Lisbon Oceanarium]
• The Baltimore Sun "A cube of glass and water" by Edward Gunts , August 12, 2001" re National Aquarium in Baltimore expansion