James Polshek (born 1930) is an American architect currently residing in New York. Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect, also known as a building designer, is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction, whose role is to guide decisions affecting those building aspects that are of aesthetic, cultural or social concern. ...

Polshek served 15 years as the dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He received his undergraduate degree from Case Western Reserve University, and his master of architecture degree from Yale University. He was also a Fulbright/Hayes fellow in Denmark. Columbia University is a private university in New York City. ... Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. It was formed in 1967 by the federation of Case Institute of Technology (founded in 1880 by philanthropist Leonard Case Jr. ... For other uses, see Yale (disambiguation). ...

Polshek's firm, founded in 1963, is best known for its renovations and expansions of public buildings. Polshek himself is unusual among top-tier architects for taking the position that architecture is more craft than fine art, and that architects have some measure of social responsibility.

Projects

• The Rose Center for Earth and Space (the planetarium cube) expansion of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, which opened February 19, 2000
• The William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas
• The Carnegie Hall renovation and expansion in New York
• The Santa Fe Opera Theater in New Mexico
• Expansion of the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York
• The master plan, renovation and expansion of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, including the glassy redesign of the museum's historic façade and entrance
• Qunico Consulting Center in Columbus, Indiana

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External links

• Polshek Partnership Architects Homepage
• Web page about James Polshek (archINFORM database)
• Information at greatbuildings.com
• Awarding of CWRU Distinguished Alumni Award
• Biography at newseum.org
• Controversy over design for the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.