Antoine Predock
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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 apprpriateness to his design with careful interpretation of regional identity.[citation needed]
[edit] Notable Projects
- 1970 - La Luz Community, 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 - Venice Beach House, California
- 1991 - Mandell Weiss Forum, University of California, San Diego
- 1992 - Hotel Santa Fe, Euro Disney, France
- 1992 - Classroom + Laboratory Building, California State Polytechnic University
- 1993 - Turtle Creek House, Texas
- 1993 - American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
- 1994 - Social Sciences + Humanities Building, University of California, Davis
- 1994 - Thousand Oaks Civic Center, California
- 1994 - Mesa Public Library, New Mexico
- 1995 - Museum of Science & Industry, Florida
- 1995 - Ventana Vista School, Arizona
- 1996 - Music Conservatory, University of California, Santa Cruz
- 1996 - Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University, California
- 1997 - Spencer Theater, New Mexico
- 1997 - Arizona Science Center, Arizona
- 1997 - Dance Studio, University of California, San Diego
- 1997 - Center for Nanoscale Science + Technology, Rice University, Texas
- 2000 - Tang Teaching Museum - Skidmore College, New York
- 2000 - McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota
- 2003 - Robert Hoag Rawlings Public Library, Colorado
- 2003 - Tacoma Art Museum, Washington
- 2004 - San Diego Padres Petco Park, California
- 2004 - Austin City Hall, Texas
- 2004 - Flint RiverQuarium, Georgia
- 2004 - Performing Arts + Learning Center, Pima Community College, Arizona
- 2006 - Recreation Facility, Ohio State University, Ohio
- 2006 - Discovery Canyon Academy School, Colorado
- 2006 - Highlands Pond House,
- 2007 - Indian Community School, Franklin, Wisconsin
- 2007 - George Pearl Hall, School of Architecture, University of New Mexico
- In Progress - Trinity River Interpretive Center, Texas
- In Progress - National Palace Museum Southern Branch, Taiwan
- In Progress - Inn at the French Laundry, California
- In Progress - Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Manitoba
- In Progress - Cornerstone Arts Center, Colorado College
- In Progress - Doudna Fine Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University
