Antoine Predock

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Antoine Predock was born in 1936 in Lebanon, Missouri. He received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Columbia University. His multi-disciplinary arts background includes having studied painting with Elaine DeKooning and others as well as having been co-director of a modern dance company. He opened his Albuquerque office in1967, and a branch office in Los Angeles in 1989. Long known for architecture sensitive to the environment of the Southwest, Predock has branched out to create buildings all over the country.

 

Some of his most notable commissions include the Las Vegas Central Library and Discovery Museum (completed in 1990), Mandell Weiss Forum/La Jolla Playhouse at the University of California, San Diego (1991), Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa, Florida (1995), Center for Integrated Systems at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (1995), ArizonaScience Center in Phoenix (1996), Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice University in Houston (1997), the University of California at Santa Cruz Music Facility (1998) and the Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York (1999). In addition, he continues to design private residences, among the most well-known are the Venice Beach House in Venice, California (1991), and the Turtle Creek House in Dallas (1993). The new Tacoma Art Museum facility will be his first building in the Northwest.

 

Tacoma Art Museum

Tacoma, Washington

1997/Present

 

http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org

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