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Roger Duffy | |
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| Occupation | Architect |
| Practice | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill |
| Buildings | Koch Center,Deerfield Academy,Skyscraper Museum |
| Projects | World Trade Center site (2002) |
Roger Duffy is an Americanarchitect, known for rigorous and unconventional approach to design.[1] Now retired, he worked as apartner at the firmSkidmore, Owings & Merrill. He was a design partner in the New York office from 1995 until 2018, and is a member of theAmerican Institute of Architects and the League Circle of theArchitectural League of New York.
He received hisBachelor of Architecture fromCarnegie Mellon University in 1979. Duffy currently lives with his wife and two children inStuyvesant Town inNew York City.[citation needed]
After graduating from Carnegie Mellon, he attempted to find a job at many firms, eventually arriving in the lobby of SOM'sWashington, DC office without an appointment. He was not promised an interview, simply waiting in the lobby for several days before David Childs interviewed him, on the basis of his determination. He worked in Washington for several years, before he moved to New York.
Experimentation and collaboration are evident throughout Roger Duffy's projects worldwide, ranging from his award-winning Upper School and Library at Greenwich Academy, to the new home of theSkyscraper Museum[2] in New York, and the landside terminal atBen Gurion International Airport. His design for the Kuwait Police Academy was included in theVenice Biennale, “Next”.
He does not work in any particular style, instead choosing a design that is rooted in a deep understanding of the unique qualities of each client's program, site, and aspirations. His interest in making art integral to his designs has led to numerous fruitful collaborations with a wide range of artists, includingJames Turrell andRobert Whitman, and contributions fromLawrence Wiener.
Duffy received AIA design awards for 350 Madison Avenue,Birch Meadows Tennis Academy,Delbarton School Performing Arts Center, Paterson PS 25, and multiple AIA design awards forGreenwich Academy and Burr Elementary School. He also won a PA award for 350 Madison Avenue. Duffy's buildings have been featured in theNew York Times, A + U, International Design Magazine, Metropolis Magazine, House and Garden, andArchitectural Record.
Sustainability is a key aspect of Duffy's design approach. His Koch Center for Science, Mathematics & Technology atDeerfield Academy will receive aLeadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Certification from theU.S. Green Building Council. To launch the programming and design of the building, Duffy organized asymposium, gathering experts from a variety of fields in a panel discussion. The symposium, a model adapted from the academic world, is characteristic of Duffy's interest in broadening the context in which architecture is conceived.
In his work for schools, colleges, and universities, he looks for unique interventions to develop solutions to campus-wide problems and challenges.[3] Duffy's master planning work atMarist College reflects a long-held interest in campus planning and urban design. Before he begins any project, Duffy studies and analyzes the functionality of the best of that building type. This benchmarking methodology yields to a conceptual process that involves transcending and superseding the current state-of-the-art.
Two of Duffy's most important initiatives are the creation of the campus planning and design studio known as SOM Education Lab and the launching of theSOM Journal, an annually published book of the firm's best work as selected and critiqued by an independent jury of artists, designers, and critics.
In December 2002, he headed a team that designed a proposal for the rebuiltWorld Trade Center inNew York City. The group developed a complex, intertwined complex of nine bent buildings, interspersed vertically with smallpocket parks. It was not well-received, worsened by the fact that Duffy barely spoke about his idea at the general presentation on the 15th of that month, suggesting that he did not have much to say about it. Duffy withdrew SOM from the competition in late January 2003, so that the firm could focus on its other project,7 World Trade Center.
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